'''George Otto Emil Lignac''' (1891 - 1954) was a Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
The disease Lignac-Fanconi_syndrome is named for him.(later; Abderhalden etc. disease)
Lignac was born in Passoeroean Java, Dutch East Indies where his father worked as a civil servant. He studied medicine at Leiden and then returned to the Dutch_East_Indies and was a teacher at the S.T.O.V.I.A.(School for Native Indies doctors) Batavia.
He returned to The_Netherlands and was appointed Professor of Pathology,_general_diseases,_pathological_anatomy,_and_juridical_medicine in Leiden in 1934.
He published work on skin pigmentation, Cysteine metabolism and the carcinogenic nature of benzol and many many more.
Lignac died in a plane crash in the river Shannon (Ireland) in 1954.
==References==
* B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). ''Dictionary of Medical Eponyms''. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
* Who Named It?
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