Pieter Thomas Leonard Kan

Pieter Thomas Leonard Kan studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he sat for his medical finals on 23 January 1897. He obtained his doctoral degree on 39 May 1899 in Amsterdam on the thesis 'On dehiscence in the front wall and in the bottom of the tympanic cavity'. Pieter Thomas Leonard Kan was admitted as unsalaried university lecturer in otorhinolaryngology. In 1907 followed his appointment to extr…

Het KNO instituut aan het Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum is naar hem vernoemd; hij was tevens voorstander van het plaatsen van het Havenziekenhuis in Rotterdam i.p.v. te Amsterdam. Heeft daarover felle discussie gevoerd met de Minister van Kolonien. Zijn vader was Cornelius Marius Kan, eerste hoogleraar in de Aardrijkskunde; het Geologisch/Aardrijkskundig instituut van de Univ. van Amsterdam i…

We have been unable to determine whether one or more members of this family survived the war. While their names do not appear on the lists of survivors, we have not been able to trace them in In Memoriam either. They are therefore labeled as 'surviving' and their names are not listed.