Leopold Wittelshöfer (14 July 1818, Nagykanizsa, Hungary – 8 January 1889, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian physician. He was educated at the University of Vienna (M.D. 1841). After practising medicine for ten years in Raab, Hungary, he moved to Vienna (1851) and became editor of the "Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift", to which periodical he contributed many essays. He was also the author of "Wiener Heil- und Humanitätsanstalten" Vienna, 1856. References BLKÖ: Wittel Höfer, Leopold Biographies of the Empire of Austria Austrian Jews 19th-century Austrian physicians Hungarian Jews People from Nagykanizsa University of Vienna alumni 1818 births 1889 deaths