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Hulusi Behçet
Date, Country, and City of Birth
February 20, 1889, Istanbul, Turkey
Date and City of Death
March 8, 1948, Istanbul, Turkey
History of Life
Hulusi Behçet was born on February 20, 1889 in Istanbul. His father was a school inspector. His mother was his father’s cousin and passed away when Hulusi Behçet was very young and so his paternal grandmother raised him. When his father was transferred to Damascus, located within the borders of the Ottoman Empire at that time, he sent Hulusi to a French boarding school in Beirut to enable him to receive a good primary education. Subsequently Hulusi completed his high school education at the Kuleli Military Medical High School in Istanbul. Hulusi Behçet had a challenging childhood due to all these location changes, and this might have contributed to his introvert, meticulous, and anxious-nervous personality.
After finishing high school, he started his medical training at the Military School of Medicine in Istanbul. There...
References and Further Reading
Adamantiades, B., & Lorendo, N. (1949). Sur le syndrome complex de uveite recidivante ou soi-diatant syndrome de Behçet. Presse Médicale, 57, 101.
Alpsoy, E. (2016). Behçet’s disease: A comprehensive review with a focus on epidemiology, etiology and clinical features, and management of mucocutaneous lesions. Journal of Dermatology, 43, 620–632.
Behçet, H. (1933). Dermatite de digure et figuler. Bulletin de la Société Française de Dermatologie et de Syphiligraphie, 40, 787–792.
Behçet, H. (1937). Über rezidivierde aphtösedurch ein virus verursachte geschwüre am mund,am auge und an der genitalien. Dermatologische Wochenschrift, 105(36), 1152–1163.
Behçet, H. (1938a). Consideration sur les lesions aphteuses de la bouches et des parties genitals, ainsi que sur les manifestations oculaire d’origiene probalement virutiques et observations concernant leur foyer d’infection. Bulletin de la Société Française de Dermatologie et de Syphiligraphie, 45, 420–433.
Behçet, H. (1938b). Kurze mitteilung über fokal septis mit aphtösen erscheinungen an mund, genitalen und veranderungen an den augen, als wahrscheinliche folge einer durch virusbedingten allgemeininfection. Dermatologische Wochenschrift, 107(35), 1037–1041.
Behçet, H., & Matteson, E. L. (2010). On relapsing, aphthous ulcers of the mouth, eye and genitalia caused by a virus. 1937. Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 28(4 Suppl 60), S2–S5.
Evreklioğlu, C. (2010). Behçet’s disease or Adamantiades-Behçet disease? An evidence-based historical survey. Medical Science Monitor, 16(6), RA136–RA142.
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Prof. Dr. Hulusi Behcet and Behcet’s disease: Life story, publications and Behcet’s disease. http://www.hulusibehcet.net/
Satar, G. (2009). Hulusi Behçet and the appearance of Behçet’s disease in medical literature. Ph.D. thesis, Cukurova University, Turkey (in Turkish with brief abstract in English: a comprehensive study on Hulusi Behçet’s history of life and main achievements to medicine/pathology. http://www.library.cu.edu.tr/tezler/7396)
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Paksoy, N. (2017). Behçet, Hulusi (1889–1948). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4037-2
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