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Torek, Franz John A (1861 - 1938)

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Nom complet
Torek, Franz John A (1861 - 1938)
Description
Chirurgien américain d’ascendance allemande (Breslau), His family immigrated to New York City as part of a wave of Germans who fled the rule of Bismarck after the German Unification in 1871. Young Torek graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1880, spent 3 years teaching English, and eventually graduated with his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1887 ; Surgeon to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital ; Adjundt Professor of Surgery in the New York Post Graduate Medical School ; Assistant Visiting Surgeon to the German Hospital, New York : one of the pioneering surgeons in thoracic surgery
Date de naissance
1861
Date de décès
1938