Abstract
A son of a district physician, the Czech cardiologist Josef Brumlík was born 125 years ago (on January 18, 1897) in Rokycany near Plzeň (Pilsen). He graduated from Charles University in Prague (1921), worked under Prof.
Libenský at the Department of Cardiology of the University Outpatient Clinic (1921-1937), participated in the foundation (1929) and acted as secretary (1929-1937) of the Czechoslovak Society of Cardiology - the world's 3rd oldest one after those of USA (1924) and Germany (1927). Habilitated as Assoc.
Prof. for Special Pathology and Therapeutics of Internal Diseases (1932). Following the Ist Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Cardiology (Prague 1933) he vainly strove for a project to build an institute of cardiology in Prague.
Being a ,full Jew', he fl ed from the German-occupied homeland to Paris (1939-1940 worked with Profs. Laubry and Vaquez and acted in the Czechoslovak National Committee), then to Mexico City (the head of Cardiology in the General Hospital 1940-1944; a co-founder of the National Institute of Cardiology 1944) and New York City (a representative of Czechoslovakia at the Committee of UNRRA 1944-1945).
After the war he returned to Prague (1945), signed the foundation memorandum of the International Society of Cardiology on behalf of Czechoslovakia (1946) but soon went back to America to teach Clinical Medicine and to research at the New York University until the death (1979).