Hungarian physician, and writer on medical topics; born at
Nádas, Hungary, April 2, 1832. For several years he attended the
Talmudic school at Presburg and that at Nikolsburg, Moravia
(1848). In 1852 he began the study of medicine, attending
successively the universities of Vienna, Paris, and Bern (M.D.
1858). On the completion of his studies he went as physician to
Tangier, where more than 4,000 Jews were living. When the war
between Spain and Morocco broke out a year later, Hauser, with
many of his coreligionists in Tangier and the coast district,
sought refuge at Gibraltar, where he took charge of the
provisional hospital established by the Jewish community. After
the Spanish had taken Tetuan (Feb., 1860), Hauser went to that
city, where the cholera was then raging, in order to relieve the
Jews there; a year later he returned to Gibraltar and resumed
his practise. He was frequently called for consultations to the
interior of Morocco, and to Cadiz and other Spanish cities. In
1872 he settled at Seville; the