Alfred Kohn

Alfred Kohn (22 February 1867 – 15 January 1959) was the head of the Institute of Histology at the Medical Faculty of German University in Prague for 26 years. He entered the history of medicine by discovery of the nature and origin of parathyroid glands and by pioneering research into chromaffin cells and sympathetic paraganglia. Kohn's papers on the pituitary, interstitial cells of testes, and ovaries are also related to endocrinology. All his studies are based on descriptive and comparative histological and embryological observations. Kohn was twice the dean of German Medical Faculty, and a member or honorary member of many important scientific societies. He was repeatedly nominated for Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. For his Jewish origin he was expelled from Deutsche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und Künste für die Tschechoslowakische Republik in 1939 and transported to Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto in 1943. After the war he lived in Prague. On the occasion of his 90th birthday he was elected honorary president of Anatomische Gesellschaft and awarded by the Czechoslovak Order of Labour. Alfred Kohn died in 1959. He was one of the outstanding personalities that Prague gave to the world of science.

Alfred Kohn
Alfred Kohn
Born	22 February 1867
Died	15 January 1959 (aged 91)
Scientific career
Fields	histology
Institutions	German University in Prague

References

• WATZKA, M (June 1959). "[Alfred Kohn.]". Anatomischer Anzeiger. Not Available. 106: 449–57. ISSN 0003-2786. PMID 13843182.
• SCHEUER-KARPIN (March 1959). "[In memoriam: Prof. Alfred Kohn.]". Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen. Not Available. 14 (11): 501. ISSN 0012-0219. PMID 13652623.
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