1. Adalbert Czerny is considered one of the founders of modern pediatrics and played a pivotal role in reducing child mortality.
11 Facts About Adalbert Czerny
1. 2.
Son of a railway engineer, Czerny grew up in Vienna and as of 1879 in Pilsen, where he passed his Abitur exam in 1882.
3.
Adalbert Czerny took up medical studies at the German Charles University in Prague.
4.
Adalbert Czerny graduated with his doctoral thesis on kidney disease in 1888 and took up clinical work as an assistant to Alois Epstein at the "Findelanstalt", which was part of the Prague University Hospital.
5.
Adalbert Czerny opted for Breslau and worked there until 1910.
6.
Adalbert Czerny accepted the chair of pediatrics in the new Children's Hospital in Strassburg in 1910, where he worked until 1913, when he became the successor of Otto Heubner as full professor for pediatrics at the Berlin Charite.
7.
Adalbert Czerny was married and had one son Marianus, who was a full professor for experimental physics in Frankfurt from 1938 to 1961.
8.
Adalbert Czerny died on 3 October 1941 in Berlin and was buried in Pilsen.
9.
The school founded by Adalbert Czerny was mainly concerned with nutrition physiology and metabolic pathology of neonates.
10.
Adalbert Czerny furthermore distinguished three groups of damage: due to nutrition, due to infection and due to physical constitution.
11.
Adalbert Czerny's repeatedly re-edited collection of lectures of 1908 "Der Arzt als Erzieher" demonstrated this pedgogical approach.