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Behçet, Hulusi (1889–1948)

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Hulusi Behçet

Date, Country, and City of Birth

February 20, 1889, Istanbul, Turkey

Date and City of Death

March 8, 1948, Istanbul, Turkey

History of Life

Hulusi Behçet was born on February 20, 1889 in Istanbul. His father was a school inspector. His mother was his father’s cousin and passed away when Hulusi Behçet was very young and so his paternal grandmother raised him. When his father was transferred to Damascus, located within the borders of the Ottoman Empire at that time, he sent Hulusi to a French boarding school in Beirut to enable him to receive a good primary education. Subsequently Hulusi completed his high school education at the Kuleli Military Medical High School in Istanbul. Hulusi Behçet had a challenging childhood due to all these location changes, and this might have contributed to his introvert, meticulous, and anxious-nervous personality.

After finishing high school, he started his medical training at the Military School of Medicine in Istanbul. There...

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Paksoy, N. (2017). Behçet, Hulusi (1889–1948). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4037-2

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