Publication details
Život a dílo embryologa profesora MUDr. Jana Floriana (1897-1942)
| Title in English | Life and scientific work of the czech embryologist professor Dr. Jan Florian (1897-1942) |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Fragmenty z dejín medicíny, farmácie a veterinárnej medicíny |
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| Field | Morphological specializations and cytology |
| Keywords | Jan Florian; Czech embryologist; life and career; studies of early human embryos; anti-fascist resistance activities |
| Description | The life, scientific work and involvement in anti-fascist resistance of Professor Jan Florian, who worked at the Masaryk University in Brno, are presented in the paper. Florian is considered an outstanding embryologist who began focused research of early human embryos as one of the first. In the 1927 year he published an extensive study of a 13 1/2-day aged human conceptus with established primitive streak (embryo T.F.). The favourable response to the paper Florian motivated so much that during 3 years he investigated 14 human embryos known in literature as a series "Bi" (I-XIV). Florian's call to the Department of Histology and Embryology in Bratislava, excessive pedagogical and organizational work, and his election for Dean of the Medical Faculty in the 1939 year, postponed the publication of obtained findings in a monograph. He managed to use them in textbook of embryology written together with Z. Frankenberger and in a popular-scientific book Od prvoka k člověku [From protozoa to the human being]. In the autumn of 1941 Jan Florian was arrested for his active participation in resistance against the German occupiers by the Gestapo and on the 7th May 1942 was shot in the concentration camp Mauthausen. |