Ludwik Hirszfeld (EPUB) von Marta A. Balinska

An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health.

Foreword by Arthur E. Mourant
Introduction by Marta A. Balinska and William H. Schneider
Foreword by Ludwik Hirszfeld to the original 1946 edition
University Years
Assistantship in Heidelberg
Sojourn in Zurich
The Great War
Armée d'Orient
Home Again
Life in Warsaw
Life within the Institute
Scientific Activities
Scientific Meetings
International Congress of Anthropologists in Amsterdam; Opening of Schools of Hygiene in Budapest and Zagreb
The 1935 Blood Transfusion Congress in Rome
The 1937 International Congress in Paris
The 1937 International Cancer Congress in Brussels
The 1939 General Pathology Congress in Rome
Medical Academy in Paris; French Youth
A Home in the Sun
The Autumn Draws On
Before the Storm
The Siege of Warsaw
Ousted
The City of Death
Lectures and Courses
Typhus in the District
The Health Council
In the Shadow of the Church of All Saints
Race or Tradition?
The Beginning of the End
Leap into the Unknown
The Life of an Obscure Man
My Evening Song
My Greatest Defeat
The Origins of This Book
Extermination Camps
The Last Upsurge of a Perishing Nation
A Chased Animal
The Turning Point for the Jewish Nation
The Great Guilt
Afterword
Appendix: Biographical Annex of Frequently Cited Names