Rudolf von Jaksch

  • Rudolf von Jaksch
  • also: Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst

Rudolf von Jaksch
Born (1855-07-16)16 July 1855
Prag-Weinberge
Died 8 January 1947(1947-01-08) (aged 91)
Hracholusky, Czech Republic
Nationality Austrian
Fields internal medicine, pediatrics
Institutions
Alma mater
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

References

  1. ↑ see in Whonamedit Rudolf von Jaksch here
  2. ↑ The disease was independently discovered and described by Georges Hayem, hence it is also called Jaksch-Hayem-syndrome.
  3. ↑ Rudolf von Jaksch @ Who Named It
  4. ↑ Rudolf von Jaksch - bibliography @ Who Named It
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 von Wartenhorst, Jaksch. "Biography" (PDF). http://www.biographien.ac.at. Retrieved 2 March 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  6. ↑ Jaksch-Wartenhorst, R. (1923). "Polychondropathia". Wien Arch F Inn Med. (6): 93–100.

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