Anton Neuwirth
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Anton Neuwirth | |
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| Born | 1921 |
| Died | 2004 (aged 82–83) |
| Citizenship | Slovak |
| Occupations | medical doctor, political prisoner, Member of Parliament, presidential candidate, ambassador |
| Years active | 1946-2004 |
Anton Neuwirth (1921–2004) was a Slovak medical doctor, political prisoner, Member of Parliament, presidential candidate and ambassador.
Neuwirth was born on 22 January 1921 in Chalmová, Bystričany. He grew up in Kapušany, Žilina and Bojnice.
From 1939 to 1944 he studied medicine at the Comenius University (Univerzita Komenského) in Bratislava graduating as a medical doctor in 1946. During his studies he became involved with the Croatian priest, Professor Tomislav Kolakovič (1906–1992).[1] This experience framed his social and political engagement against totalitarianism and that the church should have social issues as its priority. From 1945 to 1947 he studied chemistry at the Comenius University (Univerzita Komenského) in Bratislava.
On 10 July 1947 he married Eva Adamkova; together they had four children: Anna Záborská (*1948, living in Bojnice), Katarína Schniererová (*1949, living in Bojnice), František Neuwirth (*1951, living in Dijon, France) and Anton Neuwirth (*1953, living in Cologne, Germany).
Medical career
In 1947 he received a scholarship to work in Zürich with professor Paul Karrer, the 1937 Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate.[2] Back in Slovakia in 1948, he served from 1949 to 1953 as head of the Institute of Medical Chemistry and taught at the Medical Faculty of the Comenius University and from 1949 to 1953 at the University of Veterinary in Košice.
