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- Austrian Physician and Writer Jakob Eduard Polak, circa 1870 - The interestingly dressed man in this carte-de-visite is Jakob Eduard Polak. Born into a Jewish family in what is now the Czech Republic, Polak received his medical degree at Vienna, Austria in the 1840s. From 1851 to 1860, he taught medicine at a college in Iran and became the personal physician to the shah. He returned to Austria in the early 1860s.
- circa 1870
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Austrian Physician and Writer Jakob Eduard Polak, circa 1870
The interestingly dressed man in this carte-de-visite is Jakob Eduard Polak. Born into a Jewish family in what is now the Czech Republic, Polak received his medical degree at Vienna, Austria in the 1840s. From 1851 to 1860, he taught medicine at a college in Iran and became the personal physician to the shah. He returned to Austria in the early 1860s.