Rudolf von Jaksch

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf von Jaksch (July 16, 1855 1947) was an Austrian internist born in Prag-Weinberge (the Vinohrady District of Prague). He was the son of physician Anton von Jaksch (1810-1887). He studied medicine in Prague and Strassburg, earning his doctorate at Prague in 1878. Following graduation he remained in Prague as an assistant to pathologist Edwin Klebs (1834-1913). From 1879 to 1881 he worked with his father, and in 1881-82 was an assistant to Alfred Pribram (1841-1912). In 1882 he moved to Vienna, where he was assistant to Carl Nothnagel (1842-1905). The following year he received his habilitation in internal medicine. In 1887 he was appointed professor of pediatrics at the University of Graz, and later became a professor of internal medicine and director of the second internal clinic at Karl-Ferdinands Universität (German University) in Prague. Here he was instrumental in construction of a new and modern clinic that first opened in 1899.