Frigyes Korányi (physician)

Baron Frigyes Korányi de Tolcsva was a Hungarian physician who specialised in internal medicine, and in particular pulmonary medicine. He was born at Nagykálló in December 1828 and died in Budapest in May 1913. A sign of chest disease in clinical examination, Korányi's sign, is named after him, and a sanatorium in Hungary also bears his name. He came from a Jewish family originally named Kornfeld or Kornfeldt, which took the name Korányi and converted to Roman Catholicism around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, in which the family took an active nationalist part. He was the father of two sons who became prominent in their own right: Frigyes Korányi Jr., who served as Hungary's Minister of Finance, and the physician Sándor Korányi. The record available from the source is brief, so this entry covers his specialty, his eponymous sign and his family background and leaves his career details to later work.