LC control no. | no2008165065 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Blaiberg, Philip, 1909-1969 |
Associated country | Ethiopia Italy |
Associated place | Oudtshoorn (South Africa) Johannesburg (South Africa) London (England) |
Birth date | 1909-05-24 |
Death date | 1969-08-17 |
Place of birth | Uniondale (South Africa) |
Place of death | Cape Town (South Africa) |
Affiliation | Royal Dental Hospital University of the Witwatersrand South African Medical Corp |
Profession or occupation | Dentist Heart transplant patient |
Found in | Christian Barnard. Colour lithograph by G. Scarfe, 1969: note (Philip Blaiberg) The Times (London, England), 18 Aug. 1969: p. 9 (Dr Philip Blaiberg; b. May 24 1909; dentist; on the night of New Year's Day, 1968, the operation was performed [to give him a transplanted heart]; d. Aug. 18 1969) Christiaan Barnard : the surgeon who dared, 2017: (Phiip Blaiberg; 58 at the time of his heart transplant; born in Uniondale; grew up in Oudtshoorn; attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for a year and then transfered to the Royal Dental Hospital in London to study dentistry; returned to Cape Town to set up his practice but joined the South African Medical Corp and served in Abyssinia (currently Ethiopia) and Italy in World War II; Jewish; native language was Africaans; after many years practicing dentistry in Cape Town he suffered a series of heart attacks that forced into eary retirement which was due to severe coronary heart disease; third person who receive a heart transplant on January 2, 1968; wrote about his experiences in his book Looking at my heart (1968); lived 19 months after his surgery; wife was Eileen; died on August 17, 1969; Christiaan Barnard said that his importance was that he was the first patient to live a normal life after the transplant) <https://books.google.com/books?id=MVZDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT296&lpg=PT296&dq=%22+Looking+at+my+heart%22+blaiberg&source=bl&ots=Wh8SgfoY3h&sig=ACfU3U0WTnpOX8H8AnFuX91bLiWT44tw6g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqqP-MzP_2AhUQmHIEHZcYDbEQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&q=%22%20Looking%20at%20my%20heart%22%20blaiberg&f=false> Northern Virginia Sun, volume 32, number 157, April 7, 1969: (Dr. Philip: Blaiberg; bom on May 24, 1909; attended the university in Johannesburg for a year; studied at the Royal Dental Hospital (London) for years and graduated in June 1933; returned to Cape Town and strated a practice in Robertson (town in the Cape province), which was a 150 miles from Oudtshoorn; wife was Eileen Abel (married April 5, 1936); surgery was on March 16, 1968, his father was Jacob Woolf Blaiberg (born in 1870 in Poland and moved to South Africa); had a son named Harris who died in 1961 at the age of 23 and a daughter Jill who was born September 14, 1947; shortly before the outbreak of World War II the family moved to Cape Town where he started to practice; in 1940 he enlisted as a dental officer in the South African Medical Corps; (From the book, LOOKING AT MY HEART, by Dr. Philip Blaiberg, copyright 1968 by Dr. Philip Blaiberg, published by Stein & Day ; excerpt from the author's book Looking at my heart (1968)) <https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=NVS19690408.1.7&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------> New York Times website, April 6, 2022: posted August 17, 1969 (Dr. Philip Blaiberg; died August 17, 1969 in Capetown; world's longest surviving heart transplant patient; 60 years old) <https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/18/archives/dr-blaiberg-dies-19-months-after-historic-heart-transplant-blaiberg.html> |
Associated language | eng |