Rudolf Eisenmenger

1871 - 1946  (75 years)

• Name	Rudolf Eisenmenger
  Birth	1871
  Gender	Male
  Death	1946
  Notes	Rudolf Eisenmenger was a cousin of Viktor Eisenmenger, the personal physician of Emperor Franz Joseph I. He is the father of the painter Rudolf Hermann Eisenmenger. Rudolf Eisenmenger attended high school in Broos , a small town in Transylvania. He studied medicine in Cluj and received his doctorate in 1896. He then worked as a general practitioner, later as a district and railway doctor in Piski and Broos. After that, he worked as a spa doctor in Baassen and then ran a sanatorium in Hermannstadt . From 1921, he lived with his family in Vienna. In 1900, while still living in Broos, Rudolf Eisenmenger invented the "Biomotor". The reason was the death of his niece, who suffocated in his presence from a severe attack of whooping cough. In 1903, he published an "apparatus for artificial respiration" with a foot-operated bellows to generate suction and pressure over the abdomen and lower thorax. The device was patented and was produced commercially from 1904 by the company F. & M. Lautenschläger in Munich. In 1924, the foot-operated bellows was replaced by an electric motor. The "Biomotor" was used in many clinics, especially for the treatment of patients with polio. ---- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Eisenmenger (accessed 15 Jun 2025)
  Person ID	I1309	Flack Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	Christoph Eisenmenger
  Mother	(Spouse) Eisenmenger
  Family ID	F456	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	(Spouse) Eisenmenger
  Children	1. Rudolf Hermann Eisenmenger,   b. 7 Aug 1902, Simeria RO d. 11 Mar 1994, Vienna AT (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F457	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Rudolf Eisenmenger - invented a predecessor of a portable "Iron Lung"
  		Rudolf Eisenmenger with his “resuscitation apparatus”
  		Stamp and occasional envelope commemorating Rudolf Eisenmenger's 'Iron Lung' invention Philatelic material: stamp and occasional envelope made on the occasion of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Romanian Society of Anesthesia-Intensive Care, May 25, 1995, Cluj-Napoca