Rudolf von Jaksch, also Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst (16 July 1855 – 8 January 1947), was an Austrian-Czech
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.
Life
He studied medicine at the universities of
Prague
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and
Strasbourg, earning his doctorate at Prague in 1878. Following graduation he remained in Prague as an assistant to
pathologist
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Edwin Klebs
Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (6 February 1834 – 23 October 1913) was a German-Swiss microbiologist. He is mainly known for his work on infectious diseases. His works paved the way for the beginning of modern bacteriology, and inspired Louis ...
. From 1879 to 1881 he worked with his father, and in 1881–1882 was an assistant to
Alfred Pribram. In 1882 he moved to
Vienna
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, where he was assistant to
Hermann Nothnagel
Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (28 September 1841 – 7 July 1905) was a German internist born in Alt-Lietzegöricke ( pl, Stare Łysogórki), near Bärwalde in der Neumark ( pl, Mieszkowice), Neumark, Brandenburg.
Career
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. The following year he received his
habilitation in internal medicine.
In 1887 he was appointed professor of
pediatrics at the
University of Graz
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History
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, later becoming a professor of
internal medicine and director of the second internal clinic at
Karl-Ferdinands-Universität
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(German University) in Prague. Here, he was instrumental in the construction of a modern clinic that first opened in 1899. 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),
Rudolf von Jaksch - bibliography
@ Who Named It
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a work that was published over several editions and later translated into English a
''Clinical diagnosis : the bacteriological, chemical, and microscopical evidence of disease''
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.
He was widely honored and awarded, and was included as a member of the Leopoldin-Karolin, the German Academy of Natural Scientists in Halle and the medical surgical academy in Perugia.
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 (1859–1939).
Discoveries
In urine Jaksch discovered acetoacetic acid
Acetoacetic acid (also acetoacetate and diacetic acid) is the organic compound with the formula CHCOCHCOOH. It is the simplest beta-keto acid, and like other members of this class, it is unstable. The methyl and ethyl esters, which are quite sta ...
, a melanin probe and manganese toxicosis.
He also discovered new diseases such as Von Jaksch's disease (he himself named it ''anemia pseudoleukaemica infantum''). In 1923 he was the first one who discovered the autoimmune disease relapsing polychondritis
Relapsing polychondritis is a multi-systemic condition characterized by repeated episodes of inflammation and deterioration of cartilage. The often painful disease can cause joint deformity and be life-threatening if the respiratory tract, heart ...
, that he himself named ''polychondropathia''.
Further reading
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* ''Jaksch von Wartenhorst, Rudolf (1855–1947)'' in Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950
The ''Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950'' (''ÖBL''), ''Austrian Biographical Lexicon
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(in German), Bd. 3 (Lfg. 11, 1961), p. 66 (also onlin
here
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References
External links
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1855 births
1947 deaths
19th-century Czech physicians
Austrian pediatricians
Academic staff of Charles University
Academic staff of the University of Graz
Bohemian nobility
German Bohemian people
Physicians from Prague