During a visit in Lviv he got to know the theatre and at home he was given access to the library of the district commissioner Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen, who later became governor of Galicia.
His first posse mit Gesang was entitled Nur eine lösen den Zauberspruch oder Wer ist glücklich?, with music by Michael Hebenstreit.
In 1840 Turteltaub received his doctorate in medicine, married in the same year in Lemberg the daughter of the state advocate Claar, and returned in 1841 as city physician (Stadtphysicus) to Rzeszów.
Beside his many years of activity as a physician, he continued to write plays now and then, among them The Adventurer, The Youth Friend and The Daguerrotype all performed in Vienna.
In the second half of the 19th century the influences of the Haskala (השכלה, Jewish Enlightenment between 1770 and 1880) also became increasingly noticeable in the town of Rzeszów.