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Victor Hecht

Known for Hecht’s Pneumonia

born in Austria c1889, wife Rosa Hecht born 1890

Children: Peter, Hans and Edith

Edith Lowy (nee Hecht)’s sons are Peter Layton, wiki and George Layton, wiki

Pathologist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud. Creator and manager of Tuberculosis sanatorium.

Discovered ‘Hecht’s Pneumonia’ cf wiki

A rare complication of measles that manifests with a chronic or subacute form of interstitial pneumonia occurring in infants and young children. The characteristic postmortem finding is multinucleated giant cell inclusion bodies in the alveoli.

Bibliography V. Hecht: Die Riesenzellpneumonie im Kindesalter. Eine histologisch-experimentelle Studie. Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und zur allgemeinen Pathologie, Jena, 1910, 48: 263-310.