Stephen d'Irsay

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From left after right Stephen d'Irsay , Arnold C. Klebs , Henry E. Sigerist , Karl Sudhoff , Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias Hunger , Owsei Temkin . Leipzig 1929

Stephen d'Irsay (born September 18, 1894 as István Irsay in Budapest , † November 16, 1934 in Paris ) was a Hungarian doctor and medical historian.

Live and act

Stephen d'Irsay received his school education in Budapest and Lausanne . He studied medicine at the Royal Hungarian University and graduated with a doctorate in 1918. In Budapest he continued his education in the field of physiology with a focus on questions of cardiovascular functions, especially diagnostics using the electrocardiogram . He spent five months in Leiden at Willem Einthoven's institute and he worked in Kraus' clinic in Berlin . He then got a job in the University Clinic of Sándor Korányi in Budapest .

In 1921 he got the position of a research fellow for electrocardiography and director of the cardiographic laboratory at the "Michael Reese Hospital" in Chicago . In 1922 he moved to the University Hospital at the University of California .

But as early as the mid-1920s, Stephen d'Irsay turned his entire interest to the history of medicine. In California, he obtained a master's degree in the department of medieval history under Louis John Paetow. In 1925 he moved to Yale University , where he received a "Seessel Fellowship for Applied Physiology". He studied the history of medicine at the École nationale des chartes in Paris (1927) and at the Institute for the History of Medicine in Leipzig (1928–1929). Back in America, he became a freelance associate at the newly established "Institute for the History of Medicine" at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . In 1931 he entered the Dominican Order in Paris .

Works

  • The life and works of Gilles de Corbeil. New York 1925
  • The black death and the medieval universities. PB Hoeber, New York 1925
  • William Harvey, 1628-1928. R. Lier, Florence 1928
  • Albrecht von Haller; a study on the intellectual history of the Enlightenment. Thieme. Leipzig 1930
  • Histoire des universités françaises et étrangères des origines à nos jours. Tome I, Moyen Age et Renaissance. A. Picard, Paris 1933

literature

  • Henry R. Viets. Stephen d'Irsay (1894-1934). In: ISIS Volume 24 (1936) No 2, pp. 370-374
personal data
SURNAME d'Irsay, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irsay, István (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian doctor and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1934
Place of death Paris