George Lignac

George Otto Emil Lignac (30 August 1891 – 5 September 1954) was a Dutch pathologist-anatomist.

The disease Lignac-Fanconi syndrome is named for him. (later: Abderhalden etc. disease)

Lignac was born in Passoeroean, Java, Dutch East Indies where his father worked as a civil servant. He studied medicine at Leiden and then returned to the Dutch East Indies and was a teacher at the STOVIA(School tot Opleiding van Indische Artsen or "school for the training of Indian physicians") Batavia.

He returned to the Netherlands and was appointed Professor of pathology, general diseases, pathological anatomy, and juridical medicine in Leiden in 1934.

He published work on skin pigmentation, cysteine metabolism and the carcinogenic nature of benzol and many more.

The Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome is named for Emil Abderhalden, Eduard Kaufmann and George Lignac.

Lignac died in a plane crash in the river Shannon (Ireland) in 1954.

References

B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
Who Named It?

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, April 04, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.