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Kasper Blond
Kasper Blond (July 10, 1889 – September 20, 1964) was an Austrian surgeon, inventor and writer who proposed an alternative theory of cancer. Early life Blond was born in Czernowitz, Duchy of Bukovina, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 10 July 1889, to a middle-class Jews, Jewish family. He had two brothers, Adolf and Kelman. Adolf later emigrated with him to the United Kingdom, and Kelman was executed in an extermination camp during The Holocaust. First World War Capture On July 1 1913, Blond finished his military service as a one-year volunteer, being part of the Imperial and Royal Infantry, 41st division. He joined the Czernowitz garrison hospital as an assistant surgeon on 9 August 1914, becoming an officer in the medical corps with rank Fähnrich. With the beginning of the First World War, on 24 September Blond was taken captive by the forces of the Russian Empire Brusilov offensive, as they invaded and occupied the area. The Austrian Army had left the area movin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czernowitz
Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivtsi serves as the administrative center for the Chernivtsi urban hromada, the Chernivtsi Raion, and the oblast itself. The Chernivtsi population is and the latest census in 2001 was 240,600. The first document that refers to this city dates back to 1408, when Chernivtsi was a town in the region of Moldavia, formerly as a defensive fortification, and became the center of Bukovina in 1488. In 1538, Chernivtsi was under the control of the Principality of Moldavia under Polish suzerainty, later under Ottoman Empire suzerainty, and the Moldavian control lasted for two centuries until 1774, when Austria took control of Bukovina in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War. Chernivtsi (known at that time as ) became the center of the Galicia's Buko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
