Rudolf von Jaksch
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Rudolf von Jaksch
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| Born | 16 July 1855 Prag-Weinberge |
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| Nationality | Austrian |
| Fields | internal medicine, pediatrics |
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| Known for | Jaksch’s anaemia |
Rudolf von Jaksch (16 July 1855, Prag-Weinberge (the Vinohrady District of Prague) – 8 January 1947, Hracholusky (Czech Republic), also Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst, was an Austrian internist. He was the son of physician Anton von Jaksch (1810-1887). In 1889 he described the disease Anaemia leucaemica infantum, a chronic anemic disease that affects children under three years of age, which was named "Jaksch's anemia" for him.[1][2]
Life
He studied medicine in Prague and Strassburg, earning his doctorate at Prague in 1878. Following graduation he remained in Prague as an assistant to pathologist Edwin Klebs (1834-1914). From 1879 to 1881 he worked with his father, and in 1881-82 was an assistant to Alfred Pribram (1841–1912). In 1882 he moved to Vienna, where he was assistant to Hermann Nothnagel (1841-1905). The following year he received his habilitation in internal medicine.
In 1887 he was appointed professor of pediatrics at the University of Graz, later becoming a professor of internal medicine and director of the second internal clinic at Karl-Ferdinands Universität (German University) in Prague. Here, he was instrumental in the construction of a modern clinic that first opened in 1899.[3] He worked in Prague until his retirement in 1925.
He was a prolific author, one of his better efforts being Klinische Diagnostik innerer Krankheiten (1882), a work that was published over several editions and later translated into English.[4]
On his initiative he started with the construction of a new, much more modern and hygienic designed clinic that was opened in 1899. Jaksch was awarded in 1899 for this construction of his permanent bathrooms at the nursing exhibition in Berlin.[5] He was widely honored and awarded, and an including member of the Leopoldin-Karolin, and the German Academy of natural scientists in Halle and the medical surgical Academy in Perugia.[5]
In 1882 von Jaksch married Adele von Haerdtl (1867−1944) in Vienna. They had one son and three daughters. He had one brother named August Jaksch von Wartenhorst (Prague 2 jan 1859 - Klagenfurt 3 jan 1939).[5]
Discoveries
In urine Jaksch discovered Acetoacetic acid, a melanin probe and manganese toxicosis.[5] He also discovered new diseases such as Von Jaksch's disease (he himself named it anemia pseudoleukaemica infantum).[5] In 1923 he was the first one who discovered the autoimmune disease Relapsing polychondritis, that he himself named Polychondropathia.[5] [6]
Further reading
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- Jaksch von Wartenhorst, Rudolf (1855-1947) in Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, Bd. 3 (Lfg. 11, 1961), S. 66 (also online here)(German)
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References
- ↑ see in Whonamedit Rudolf von Jaksch here
- ↑ The disease was independently discovered and described by Georges Hayem, hence it is also called Jaksch-Hayem-syndrome.
- ↑ Rudolf von Jaksch @ Who Named It
- ↑ Rudolf von Jaksch - bibliography @ Who Named It
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External links
- Rudolf von Jaksch in the German National Library catalogue
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- 1855 births
- 1947 deaths
- 19th-century Austrian people
- 19th-century Czech people
- 19th-century Austrian physicians
- 20th-century Austrian physicians
- Austrian physicians
- Czech physicians
- Austrian pediatricians
- Charles University in Prague faculty
- University of Graz faculty
- Bohemian nobility
- Austrian people of Czech descent
- People from Prague
