Qiu Fazu studied at Hangchow University Preparatory School in Hangzhou and graduated in 1932.
10 Facts About Qiu Fazu
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Qiu Fazu initially graduated from the German School of Medicine in Shanghai, the predecessor of today's Tongji University.
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Qiu Fazu graduated from the LMU in November 1939 with honours and received his PhD and the license to practise his profession in Germany.
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In September 1944, at the age of 31, Qiu Fazu was advanced to the rank of attending physician and headed the Jodquellenhof in Bad Tolz, which had been turned into a makeshift hospital.
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In 1946, Qiu Fazu returned to Shanghai with his German wife.
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Qiu Fazu adopted the name Qiu Luoyi and in 1958 attained Chinese citizenship.
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In 1978, after the Cultural Revolution, Qiu Fazu was made Vice-President of Tongji Medical University in Wuhan, which by then had completely moved out of Tongji University in Shanghai to Wuhan and has been now a department of the local Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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Qiu Fazu was made the head of the organ transplant research institute there.
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Qiu Fazu was one of the most acclaimed surgeons of China and a pioneer of Chinese organ transplantation, who wrote a standard textbook of surgery that is still in use and has been reprinted many times.
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Qiu Fazu was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and, from 1975 to 1993, was a member of the Chinese Communist Party, the deputy to the 4th-7th National People's Congresses.