{"id":494,"date":"2017-12-01T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/?p=494"},"modified":"2020-01-15T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:06:42","slug":"predmet-mesice-prosinec-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/2017\/12\/predmet-mesice-prosinec-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of the Month: December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>230 Anniversary of the birth of Jan Evangelista Purkyn\u011b (December 17 1787 Libochovice \u2013 July 28 1869 Prague)<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Czech Medical Students’ Association Medal designed by Otakar \u0160paniel (1881-1955), issued in 1937 to commemorate the 150 birthday of Jan Evangelista Purkyn\u011b and to celebrate 50 years of the Purkyne Endowment Fund<\/a> (NML Medical Museum Numismatic Collection, M 641)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sculptor and medallist Otakar \u0160paniel spent 25 years working on the portrait of J. E. Purkyn\u011b and designed what may be the largest corpus of medals and plaques with his image. The 1937 medal completes his effort to give expression to the scientist\u2018s character and physical likeness. The Medical Museum purchased the medal on December 23, 1964, during a period when its exposition concentrated on numismatic representations of medical history, from the inheritance of Bohumil Prusik, Professor of Internal Medicine in Prague (1886- 1964). The obverse shows Purkyne\u2019s bust. The reverse reads \u201cOmne vivum ex ovo\u201d (Every living thing comes from an egg), a William Harvey quote inscribed on Purkyne\u2019s tombstone to indicate his contributions to embryology, followed by a Latin text encouraging further commemoration of the anniversary. The staff of Asclepius bound with a laurel branch points to Purkyne\u2019s scientific work: the lime branch is typical for the medallist, but hints at Purkyne\u2019s Slavic sentiments as well.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

230 Anniversary of the birth of Jan Evangelista Purkyn\u011b (December 17 1787 Libochovice \u2013 July 28 1869 Prague) Czech Medical Students’ Association Medal designed by Otakar \u0160paniel (1881-1955), issued in 1937 to commemorate the 150 birthday of Jan Evangelista Purkyn\u011b and to celebrate 50 years of the Purkyne Endowment Fund (NML Medical Museum Numismatic Collection, M 641) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predmet-mesice"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.6","language":"en","enabled_languages":["cs","en"],"languages":{"cs":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzeum.nlk.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}