Trnka Vaclav - Central European Anatomist and Medical Polymath of the Eighteenth Century

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11410/20:10410870

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=H_D3DsYSR~" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=H_D3DsYSR~</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4149/BLL_2020_013" target="_blank" >10.4149/BLL_2020_013</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Trnka Vaclav - Central European Anatomist and Medical Polymath of the Eighteenth Century

Original language description

Vaclav Trnka from Krovice (1739-1791, in Latin: Wenzel Trnka Krzowitz) was a remarkable physician whose life serves as an example in the history of medicine by connecting major capital cities of Central Europe. In view of current geographical layout, he was born and brought up in the Czech Republic, graduated from University of Vienna in Austria, and was appointed Professor of the Anatomy at the newly established Faculty of Medicine of University of Nagyszombat, presently Trnava in Slovak Republic. When the University moved to Buda and later to Pest (today Budapest, Hungary), he was the first educator to introduce anatomy as a medical subject to be taught in a Hungarian medical school. He also was elected the Dean of Faculty of Medicine three times and in 1786-1787 he acted as Rector of then the Royal University of Pest. During his life, he published twenty-seven monographs dealing with different areas of clinical medicine, such as malaria (intermittent fever), diabetes, and rickets. Based on these monographs we can proclaim that Vaclav Trnka was a co-founder of modern infectology, diabetology and ophthalmology in Central Europe. Nowadays, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics are inseparable parts of modern health care system which help the transformation of big data into valuable knowledge. In the 18th century, Professor Trnka owned more than 3,000 scientific books and had natural, innate intelligence and wisdom which made him a real &quot;medical polymath&quot;. As a musician, Trnka also composed sixty-one canons, two of them long wrongly considered as Mozart&apos;s work. Despite the fact that Trnka is considered to be the founder of Hungarian anatomy education and a major medical figure of the eighteenth century Central Europe, no internationally acclaimed biographical record of his life or work has so far been published in English. Therefore, we would like to reintroduce Vaclav Trnka both as an anatomist and medical polymath, and to give an overview of the early days of anatomy teaching in present-day Slovakia and Hungary (Fig. 1, Ref. 27).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bratislavské lekárske listy / Bratislava Medical Journal

ISSN

0006-9248

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

121

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

96-101

UT code for WoS article

000507926100013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077941596