Athias (Dr Marck)
Original title: Athias (Dr. Marck)
Marck Athias, physician and histologist born in 1876 and educated at the Funchal lyceum, later professor at the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine.
He was born on 11 December 1876. He is a doctor of medicine of the Paris Faculty and a physician and surgeon of the Lisbon Medical School, having done his secondary studies at the Funchal lyceum (state secondary school), where he was always an outstanding student. He is first assistant at the Câmara Pestana Bacteriological Institute, professor and librarian at the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine, and secretary of the Portuguese Society of Natural Sciences. He wrote a work entitled Anatomia da celula nervosa (Lisbon, 1905) and has contributed to the bulletin of the Portuguese Society of Natural Sciences, Polytechnia, etc., etc.
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- Funchal
Where he attended secondary school.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Lisbon
Portugal. City of his medical career.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
- Paris
France. Where he took his medical doctorate.
The French capital, where Franco de Sousa settled and painted 'Ar livre', and where Juvenal Honório de Ornelas took his medical doctorate in 1834. Padre Luiz Gonçalves da Câmara studied there and met Loyola, and the Barão de Ornelas graduated, practised and died there.
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People mentioned · 01- Marck Athiasb. 1876
Physician educated at the Funchal lyceum, assistant at the Câmara Pestana Institute and professor in Lisbon; author of Anatomia da celula nervosa (1905).