Rudolf Kimla: Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague and a member of PAU in Kraków. Cover Image

Rudolf Kimla: profesor lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy v Praze a člen PAU v Krakově.
Rudolf Kimla: Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague and a member of PAU in Kraków.

On the history of Czech-Polish relations in the field of medicine

Author(s): Petr Svobodný
Contributor(s): Agnieszka Tokarczuk (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Local History / Microhistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Scientific Life
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: Rudolf Kimla;medicine;Czech-Polish relations

Summary/Abstract: The intensity of scientific contacts between the countries is evidenced, inter alia, in the make-up of the foreign members of the academy of sciences of a given country. In the case of the Academy of Learning in Kraków, later the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) and the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts (ČAVU), the relations have been thoroughly investigated by a Czech historian M. Ďurčanský. As regards the relationships in the field of medicine, a mutual membership of a group of foreign members of PAU and ČAVU was uncommon, a notable example being Rudolf Kimla, the professor of the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague. Kimla was renowned for his work for the development of cooperation within the Slavic medical milieu, which was fostered by Slavic doctor conventions. Kimla’s appointment as a foreign member of PAU (1935) followed his participation in a congress of Slavic doctors held in Poznań in 1933.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 192-211
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Czech