Manes kartagener bio

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    Manes Kartagener

    Swiss internist (1897–1975)

    Manes Kartagener (7 January 1897 in Przemyśl, then Galicia, Austria-Hungary – 5 August 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland) was a Swiss internist of Polish-Jewish origins.

    Early life

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    His father, Lazar Kartagener, was both, a rabbi and a small businessman, His mother, also from Przemyśl, was called Tzluva, née Guth. He went to a local school at first, then to a grammar school in present-day Lviv, and after matriculating there in 1915, he and his father moved to Switzerland in the following year.[1] Kartagener himself said that his family name was of Sephardic origin and traced it back to the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain following the Alhambra Decree in 1492, referring to Cartagena, Spain, founded bygd the Carthaginian, Hasdrubal the Fair.[2]

    Career

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    He passed his matura exam in 1921, following which he enrolled at the University of Zurich to study medicine, graduating in 1924. In 1928, he

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    Biography
    • Born January 7, 1897, Przemyśl (part of Austria since 1772. Returned to Poland following WW1)
    • 1915 – Graduated from a science orientated gymnasium (grammar school) in Lviv (now Ukraine)
    • 1916 – Emigrated to Switzerland
    • 1921 – Commenced medical studies at the University of Zürich
    • 1924 – M.D. degree, University of Zürich
    • 1928 – Ph.D., University of Zürich. Thesis: “Ueber einen Fall von Kankroid der Schilddrüse okänt peritheliomartigen Bildern” (About a case of cancroid of the thyroid with peritheliomatous features)”. Obtained citizenship in Zürich
    • Postgraduate experience: Resident at the Institute of Pathologic Anatomy in Zurich, Children’s Hospital, and Institute of Dermatology, then to Basel at the University Institute of Physiological Chemistry
    • 1928-38 – Trained then worked in internal medicin under Dr Wilhelm Loffler
    • 1938 – Moved to private practice in internal medicine, Zürich
    • WWII – Directed the medical section of the Swiss Army
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      Manes Kartagener

      Manes Kartagener was born in Przemysl, then a part of Austria, and in 1918 returned to Poland. His father was Lazar Kartagener, a factory owner and rabbi; his mother was Susanne Guth. Kartagener was educated at the classical gymnasium in Przemysl, and later continued at a gymnasium for the natural sciences in Lemberg, where he graduated in 1915.

      Kartagener immigrated to Switzerland in 1916, and obtained his medical qualification in 1924. Kartagener had a difficult time as a student due to lack of funds, and supported himself by giving private lessons. He gained postgraduate experience in Zurich and Basel, eventually becoming a specialist physician in the University department of medicine in Zurich. He became a close friend of his chief, professor Löffler, with whom he shared many academic interests.

      Kartagener obtained his doctorate in 1928 for a thesis on the thyroid gland and received further academic acknowledgement in 1935 for a dissertation on the aetiolo