Zdenek Hruban

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Zdenek Hruban , also Sidonius Hruban (born June 15, 1921 in Prerau , † September 18, 2011 in Chicago ) was an American doctor.

biography

Hruban was born the son of the professor at an agricultural school, Jaroslaus Hruban. Coming from Moravia , he was unable to study there after finishing school at the Realgymnasium in Prerau, since all universities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were closed. Therefore he studied medicine at the University of Rostock . After the end of the Second World War , he continued his studies at the University of Hradec Králové . Since his family was threatened by the communist police, he fled to the west via Mariánské Lázně in 1948 . He spent a year as an assistant at the Gloucester Psychiatric Hospital . Then he went to a refugee camp in Germany, from where, with the help of his sister, he managed to leave for the USA. In 1951 he arrived in Wisconsin . In the following year he received a scholarship at the University of Chicago , where he was promoted to Ph. D. in 1963 and Professor of Pathology in 1973 and retired in 1991. He made contributions to the beginnings of electron microscopy in clinical pathology and to the first descriptions of peroxisomes . His awards include acceptance into the Sigma Xi . In 1998 Václav Havel presented him with a Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) .

In 1957 he got the US citizenship. He had three children with his wife Jarmila. He also got involved with emigrated Czechs and Slovaks by making a significant contribution to the establishment of a collection of around 10,000 books on the subject for the Joseph Regenstein Library .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See entry by Zdenek Hruban WS 1941/1942, No. 27; Matriculation of the University of Rostock: supplement books 1933-1945 (foreign students and students of non-Aryan descent)
  2. ↑ Univ. Rostock archive, 1.09.3 student index 1935-1945, index card Sidonius Hruban
  3. ↑ enrollment of Zdenek Hruban in Rostock Matrikelportal

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personal data
SURNAME Hruban, Zdenek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hruban, Sidonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medical doctor and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Prerau
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 2011
Place of death Chicago