Max Askanazy

Max Askanazy (24 February 1865, Stallupönen, East Prussia – 23 October 1940, Geneva, Switzerland) was a German-Swiss pathologist.

In 1905 he succeeded Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845–1904), as professor of general pathology at the University of Geneva, a position he maintained until 1939.

Askanazy made contributions in the fields of hematology and parasitology, also conducting important research of bone pathology and the formation of tumors in humans.

[1] In 1921, he provided an early description of Schaumann bodies (kalkdrusen),[2] and two years later, he was the first to describe a gastric carcinoid tumor.

[3] In 1928, he founded the Société internationale de pathologie géographique (The International Society for Geographical Pathology), which would play an important role in the formation of the epidemiology of cancer.