Pavol Strauss

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Pavol Strauss

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Why Is Pavol Strauss Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Pavol Strauss ; was a Slovak medical doctor, writer, essayist and translator. Biography Strauss's autobiography, Kolíska dôvery, published in 1994, can be considered as an authentic guidebook through his remarkable life. Strauss studied at a „gymnazium“ in his birthplace, where he actively worked in the self-educational group of M. M. Hodža. After passing the „maturita“ he studied medicine in Vienna and finished his studies at the German university in Prague in 1938. From 1938 to 1939 he completed a one-year military service. He worked as a doctor in Palúdzka and Ružomberok. Strauss converted to Catholicism from Judaism after a two-year struggle in 1942. Before the war ended he had been in a concentration camp in Nováky. He subsequently worked as a surgeon in Bratislava and from 1946 to 1956 as a head surgeon in Skalica. Finally, from 1956 to 1982, he worked as a surgeon in the State hospital in Nitra.

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