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Ignaz Semmelweis MBTI Personality Type

Personality

What personality type is Ignaz Semmelweis? Ignaz Semmelweis is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 6w5 - - in Enneagram, RLOEI in Big 5, in Socionics.

INTJ with very developed Fi (for example, he often got emotional about his discoveries being rejected and ridiculed, and called his opponents irresponsible murderers for refusing to wash hands despite evidence it reduces maternal deaths drastically).

Biography

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician of ethnic-German ancestry, now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands. In 1865, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 47 of pyaemia, after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed.

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