Research Catalog

Title

Ludwik Hirszfeld : the story of one life / translated and edited by Marta A. Balińska ; edited by William H. Schneider.

Author

Hirszfeld, Ludwik, 1884-1954

Publication

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Balińska, Marta A.
• Schneider, William H. (William Howard), 1945-

Description

xxxv, 456 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth century, discovered the inheritance and established the nomenclature of blood groups and opened the field of human population genetics. He also carried out groundbreaking research in the genetics of disease and immunology. Following World War II, he founded Poland's first Institute of Immunology in Wroclaw, which now bears his name. His autobiographical memoir, The Story of One Life, first published in Poland in 1946, immediately became a bestseller and has been reedited several times since. It is an outstanding account of a Holocaust survivor and a writer capable of depicting the uniqueness and the tragedy of countless individuals caught up in the nightmare of 1939-45. He recollects his time as a physician in the Serbian army in 1915 and his satisfaction as a scientist who helped rebuild Poland after the Treaty of Versailles; in so doing the contrast between the world before and the world after World War II could not be starker. Hirszfeld wrote this book while in hiding after he escaped from the Warsaw ghetto in 1943; he buried the manuscript and retrieved it only after the war. Drawing on interviews with Hirszfeld's former students and family, as well as unpublished documents, this translation is annotated and has an introduction written by two scholars with unique qualifications to understand both the immediate setting in which Hirszfeld lived his life, and the broader implications of his work to the history of medicine."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 ; v. 16

Uniform Title

• Historia jednego życia. English
• Rochester studies in medical history v. 16.

Alternative Title

Historia jednego życia.

Subject

• Hirszfeld, Ludwik
• Hirszfeld, Ludwik, 1884-1954
• World War II
• Physicians
• Jews
• Microbiologists > Poland > Biography
• Serology
• Blood groups > ABO system
• ABO Blood-Group System
• Poland

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Autobiography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-443) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Polish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781580463386 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 158046338X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010010851

OCLC

• 462878503
• SCSB-10375464

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library