Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005110 - Jurasz, Antoni Thomas Alexander (1883 - 1961)
Title:
Jurasz, Antoni Thomas Alexander (1883 - 1961)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005110
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-03-07
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Jurasz, Antoni Thomas Alexander (1883 - 1961), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Jurasz, Antoni Thomas Alexander
Date of Birth:
1883
Place of Birth:
Heidelberg
Date of Death:
20 September 1961
Place of Death:
New York, USA
Titles/Qualifications:
Hon FRCS 11 December 1941
Hon FRCS Ed June 1942
MD Heidelberg 1907
Details:
Born at Heidelberg in 1883 son of Altor Jurasz (1847-1923), Professor of Laryngology successively at Heidelberg, Lwow and Poznan, and Caroline, daughter of Thomas Gaspey, lecturer in English, his education was at Heidelberg, where he qualified in 1907, and in London, Konigsberg and Leipzig.
From 1919 to 1939 he was Professor of Surgery at Poznan, becoming President of the Society of Polish Surgeons, of the Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons of West Poland and of the Polish Red Cross Society.
He was taken prisoner when Poland was invaded in 1939 but escaped to France and then to Scotland, where at Edinburgh in 1940 he founded the Polish Medical Faculty of which he was the first Dean. He also founded the Paderewski Hospital in Edinburgh.
In 1945 he emigrated to New York, where he died on 20 September 1961 at the age of 78, survived by his wife.
Publication:
The Polish Medical Faculty of Edinburgh. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1941-42, 35, 133.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1961, 2, 966 by Sir Sidney Smith
*Lancet* 1966, 2, 832 by the same
*The Times* 13 February 1942 and *Brit med J* 1942, 1, 712: admission as Hon FRCS Ed, with photograph
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005100-E005199
Media Type:
Unknown
