JOSEF THOMAYER
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP
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PERSONALITIES JOSEF THOMAYER |
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP |
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| Date of issue: | 12.2.2003 | |
| Face value: | 8,00 CZK | |
| Printing sheets: | 50 stamps |
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| Size of the stamp: | 30 x 23 mm | |
| Graphic Artist: | Zdeněk Netopil | |
| Engraver: | Milo Ondráček | |
| Method of printing: | rotary recess print in black combined with photogravure in yellow, ochre and brownred | |
| Subject of the stamp: | Josef Thomayer (1853-1927), a noted Czech doctor of internal medicine, his main hobby was literature, he wrote stories and poems under the pseudonym R. E. Jamot. Thomayer graduated in 1876, in the period 1883-1902 he was the head of the Prague policlinic, and from 1897 he was a professor of internal medicine at the Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. In 1902 Thomayer became the chief physician of the 2nd Clinic of Internal Medicine. He was the teacher of many outstanding physicians, the founder of modern Czech internal medicine, of medical periodicals and manuals, and the author of the monumental Pathology and Therapy of Internal Illnesses (1893). One of the leading Prague clinics in the Prague quarter of Krč is named after him. | |
| Catalogue No.: | 0349 | |
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