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Victor Eisenmenger
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Victor Eisenmenger
Date, Country, and City of Birth
January 29, 1864, Vienna, Austria
Date, Country, and City of Death
December 11, 1932, Vienna, Austria
History of Life
Victor Eisenmenger was born in Wien, Austria, as the son of Emma Singer von Wyszogurska (1841–1907) and August Eisenmenger (1830–1907), who was an accomplished Austrian painter of portraits and historical subjects and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna. Victor had two brothers: Ewald, who became a Hofrechnungsrat (civil servant of the financial administration) in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, and Hugo, who moved to the United States becoming a well-known electrical engineer in New York. He married Anna Hoberg (1874–1944) and had two daughters, Anna, who became a talented sculptress, and Hilde, who was an accomplished tennis player.
Victor followed his studies in Vienna. He attended the Akademisches Gymnasium, one of the oldest secondary schools in Austria....
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Duke, M. (2015). Victor Eisenmenger (1864–1932): The man behind the syndrome. Journal of Medical Biography, 6, 1–14.
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Zampieri, F., Thiene, G. (2017). Eisenmenger, Victor (1864–1932). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_4094
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