Original Names
Max Askanazy
Date, City, and Country of Birth
February 24, 1865, Stallupönen, East Prussia (now Nesterov, Russia)
Date, City, and Country of Death
October 23, 1940, Geneva, Switzerland
Early Life and Professional Work
Max Askanazy was born in the town of Stallupönen located within the Kingdom of Prussia affiliated with the German Confederation at that time. He was the son of a Jewish family. His father was Joseph Samuel and his mother was Elisabeth Maria Gerstel. He completed his high school education at the Kneiphöfsche Gymnasium in Königsberg located on the shore of the Baltic Sea of the Kingdom of Prussia and carried out his military service as a “reserve officer” in the Prussian army. Subsequently, he began his training in medicine at the University of Königsberg. He graduated here as a medical doctor in 1890.
After his graduation, Max Askanazy began to work as a resident at the Institute of Pathology. He completed his education in pathology in 1893 (Ohry 2011) and...
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Askanazy, M. (1898). Pathologisch-anatomische Beiträge zur Kenntniss des morbus basedowii, ins besondere uber die dabei auftretende Muskelerkrankkung. Deutsches Archiv für Klinische Medicin, Leipzig, 61, 118–186.
Askanazy, M. (1900). Ueber die Diagnostische Bedeutung der Ausscheidung des Bence-Jones’ schen Körpers durch den Urin. Deutsches Archiv für Klinische Medizin, 68, 34–54.
Askanazy, M. (1904a). Concerning local amyloid deposition in the intestinal musculature. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Pathologie Gesellschaft, 7: 32–34. (from: Rosenblum A.H., & Kirshbaum J.D. (1936). Multiple myelomas with tumorlike amyloidosis: A clinical and pathological study. Journal of the American Medical Association, 106 (12), 988–991.
Askanazy, M. (1904b). Ueber extrauterine Bildung von Blutzellen der Leber. Verhandlungen der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie, 7, 58–65.
Askanazy, M. (1904c). Ueber ostitis deformans ohne osteides. Arbeiten Pathology Institute of Tubingen, 4:398–422 (from: Paieka, J.L., & Avan Heerden, J. (2014). The history of parathyroid surgery pp. 1–8. In D.J. Terris, W. Duke, & J.L. Pasieka (Ed.), Parathyroid surgery: Fundamental and advanced concepts. Plural Publishing, San Diego, CA.
Askanazy, M. (1914a). Zur Physiologie und Pathologie der Plexus chorioidei. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Pathologie Gesellschaft, 17:85–103 2 (from Schröder, R., & Linke, R.P. (1999). Cerebrovascular involvement in systemic AA and AL amyloidosis: A clear haematogenic pattern. Virchows Archive, 434:551–560).
Askanazy, M. (1914b). Allgemeine Ätiologie (kausale Genese) II. Äußere Krankheitsursachen zum Thema Parasiten. In: L. Aschoff: Pathologische Anatomie. Lehrbuch. 4. Auflage. Band 1, G. Fischer Verlag, Jena, S. 136–309.
Askanazy, M. (1927a). The bone marrow. In F. Henke & O. Lubarsch (Eds.), Handbook of special pathological anatomy and histology (pp. 775–1082). Berlin: Springer. Part II.
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Paksoy, N. (2016). Askanazy, Max (1865–1940). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_3991-1
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