Alois Epstein

Alois Epstein was a Czech paediatrician of Jewish ancestry, born in Kamenice nad Lipou on 1 January 1849 and remembered for describing Epstein's pearls. He studied at the University of Prague and graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1873. He then worked as a physician in Prague, became a privat-docent in paediatrics there in 1880, and was named professor of paediatrics in 1884. The sources available for this entry say little beyond that career, so it records the dates, the places and the single finding attached to his name, and it makes no claim about the content of his research or his wider reputation. He died on 27 October 1918. His professorial post at Prague is the clearest sign of how far his career reached.