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PROF. K. F. WENCKEBACH, an eminent Viennese physician and a founder of modern cardiology, whose death has recently been announced, was born at The Hague on March 24, 1864. After serving as an assistant at the Institute of Zoology and Pathology of Utrecht, he was appointed professor of internal medicine at Groningen in 1901, where he remained until 1911, when he was transferred to the corresponding chair at Strassburg. He held this post until 1914, when he was appointed professor of medicine at Vienna, retiring in 1929. He at first devoted his attention to embryology, but his subsequent work, for which he is best known, was concerned with the pathology and clinical aspects of cardiovascular disease and particularly cardiac arrhythmia. In 1920, in association with Prof. Jagic, he founded the Wiener Archiv für innere Medizin, of which his students offered him a Festschrift on the occasion of his retirement in 1929. During the occupation of his chair at Vienna he attracted a large number of practitioners and students interested in cardiology. He had many friends in Great Britain, where he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1928 and of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1930.
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ROLLESTON, J. Prof. K. F. Wenckebach. Nature 147, 260 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147260b0
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