tauber m d laszlo (1 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 201pp. Illustrated. Printed wrapper with modest wear, about near fine. Inscribed by Tauber to a friend on the title page. Tauber's biography from the Tauber Foundation's website is worth quoting at some length: "Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber was a national champion gymnast, renowned surgeon, successful real estate developer, and generous philanthropist. At the age of 29, he was appointed chief of surgery at the International Red Cross Hospital. The hospital served the Jews of Budapest who, along with Dr. Tauber, had been forced into a ghetto. He remained there throughout the war and rescued many Jews by providing critical medical attention and forging papers that forestalled their deportation. For those efforts, he was honored by the International Red Cross with their most distinguished award, the Medal of Merit. After the war, Dr. Tauber received a scholarship to study neurosurgery in Stockholm, Sweden before immigrating to the United States in 1947. He eventually built a thriving surgical practice and founded Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Tauber was also a real estate entrepreneur who became legendary as one of the most successful developers in Washington, D.C." *OCLC* locates only seven copies.