Zdeněk Lojda
Zdeněk Lojda (born December 7, 1927 in Třebíč ; † April 24, 2004 ) was a Czechoslovak pathologist and histologist . He was director of the Institute of Histology and Embryology at Charles University in Prague and vice -rector of the university.
Life
He grew up as the son of a high school professor in Mährisch Budwitz and studied medicine in Prague from 1946 to 1952 . There, under the influence of Zdenek Frankenberger, he turned to histology and was assistant professor at the Institute for Embryology until 1961. In 1962 he moved to the Angiology Laboratory and turned to pathology, where he completed his habilitation and became a professor in 1975. From 1978 he was head of the laboratory for histochemistry. In 1990 the Institute for Histology and the Institute for Embryology were reunited under his leadership (they had separated in 1939).
In 1975 he became a member of the Leopoldina . Among other things, he was an honorary doctorate from the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1970 and 1982 he received the Klement-Gottwald State Prize. In 1987 he received the Schleiden Medal . He was a corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Zdenek Lojda at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 23, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lojda, Zdeněk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak pathologist and histologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Třebíč |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 2004 |