Professor Ludwik Hirszfeld in his relations with students and junior researchers.

When antibodies are antigens.

In the winter of 1945/46, I initiated my collaboration with Ludwik Hirszfeld in Wrocław, Poland. At that time Hirszfeld was 61 years old. He was famous for his discoveries on the heredity and anthropology of human blood groups, the description of a paratyphoid C bacillus, studies on the serological structure of pathological tissues, as well as pioneering concepts on constitutional serology. He ...

Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy Polish Academy

Hirszfeld and the Abo Blood Groups.

The importance of Ludwik Hirszfeld's contributions to our knowledge of the ABO blood group system has been affirmed in various ways: by Karl Landsteiner (1931) in his Nobel Address, by Hirszfeld's election to the Presidency of the Blood Group Section of the Second International Congress of Blood Transfusion (Paris, 1937), and by the naming in his memory of the Hirszfeld Microbiological Institut...

New natural human anti-αGal antibodies reacting with rare polyagglutinable NOR erythrocytes

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Professors Rudolf Weigl and Ludwik Hirszfeld--in the meanders of history.

The lives and scientific achievements of two outstanding Polish biologists - Professors Rudolf Weigl (1883-1957) and Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954) - are presented in the context of the social and political events before and after World War II. The main aim is to recall and emphasise the very modern studies conducted in the two decades between the wars in the Polish scientific centres of Lvov and...