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Hans Popper, the founder and reigning monarch of modern hepatology, died on May 6, 1988. He was a man of colossal intellect, boundless energy and encyclopedic knowledge who dominated the field of liver disease for nearly half a century. His fertile imagination and intuition initiated or nurtured many o f the field's major scientific advances, and his contributions encompassed all aspects of the liver in health and disease. Investigators all over the world sought his critical judgment because the Popper imprimatur. if granted, conferred scientific credibility to new findings and concepts. As an inspiring and stimulating role model. he endowed countless students, fellows and coworkers with the intellectual curiosity from which sprang new and, at times, unorthodox discoveries. Under the leadership of this grand master, hepatology developed from a predominantly descriptive discipline to a science based on quantitative assessment of function and structure. As we eulogize Hans Popper. let us ponder his roots and his exceptional human and professional dimensions.
Hans Popper was born on November 23. 1903, in the midst of the proud, glittering elegance of a decadent Vienna, which was t,hen the capital of the faltering Austro-Hungarian Empire. His fat her, a prominent physician, moved easily among the city's leading artistic, academic and aristocratic circles, and this was the milieu in which Hans was reared. As would be expected in an intellectual family in old Vienna, Hans received a classical education based on t,he twin pillars of Greek and Latin, which he mastered so well that many years later Address reprint requests to: Hudi Schrnid. M.U., Ph.L).. Professor (11 Medicine and Dean, School of Medicine. 5 -2 2 4 . 1 iniver5it.v ( i f California. San Francisco. San Francisco. ( ' d i t o r n i a !). I 1 1:; Hans Popper. 1984. On the orrasion rif rerei\ ing an honorary degree '11 the 1 niver\it\ of Freiburg he still was able t o coauthor with Hans Elias a scientific article written in Latin! The years before World War I Hans Popper, 1982. His favorite pastime.
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