Max Holzmann (31 March 1899 – 27 January 1994) was a Swiss

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Early life

Max Holzmann was born on 31 March 1899 in Zurich, the son of

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Moritz Holzmann and Anna Helena Lerch. Holzmann took a degree in medicine in Zurich and

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, and in 1923 graduated with a doctor of medicine degree. Holzmann worked as a doctor in Vienna, Paris and at the University Hospital in Zurich. Holzmann taught from 1959 to 1969 as a lecturer and honorary professor at the

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. He also acted in 1948 as co-founder of the Swiss Society of

Cardiology Cardiology () is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular he ...

, of which he was president from 1952 to 1955.

Later life

He died on 27 January 1994 in Zurich, two months before his 95th birthday.

Personal life

In 1931, Holzmann married Elisa, daughter of Emil Rüegg, in Zurich.

Publications

Holzmann published over a hundred papers on

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and electrocardiography. * Clinical Electrocardiography (textbook), 1945–1965, 5th edition

Honours

* 1955,

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awarded, for his textbook and his life's work

References

External links

Literature by and about Max Holzmann
in the catalog of the

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Article with photo of Max Holzmann
on the website www.marcel-benoist.ch {{DEFAULTSORT:Holzmann, Max 1899 births 1994 deaths Swiss cardiologists Academic staff of the University of Zurich Physicians from Zürich 20th-century Swiss physicians Textbook writers