Dr. 0. von Schab Doctor Oskar von Schab, at his! time one of the best known personalities of old Shanghai, died at hhis home in Munich on April 29.
Oskar von Schab was born on June 17, 1862, in the house of his! father who was at that time a judge of a High Court in Munich, Born into a well-to-do family of the lower nobility of Bavaria, his education aimed from the very beginning at a more or less official career, Those were the times of Ludwig It of Bavaria, and his father was great favourite with this unlucky and highly artistic king of Bavaria, Being Inbued with a great interest Im art and a keen sense to educate Iuimselt mixed with a. tremendous desire to see end explore the orbit munch, young Schab turned to medicine as the study of his choice. When he had obtained his degree hho got one step nearer his desire to see the world by. becoming a doctor in the German Navy Soon his wishes came true and he} was on one of the bouts of the German Navy which stayed in Eastern waters before the Boxer troubles.
Already here he had shown his great capability for or hygiene, and as a_re work the young doctor was made fan assistant to Robert Koch in Berlin for three years. Nothing "could please his Keen sense of research more than this time of hard. and Interesting work, but one thing remained after he had finished his Ume at this Institute:—the call of the East. So we see him for some {ime remaining with his beloved Navy, but when he had just attained. the tank of Lieutenant-Commander he left the Navy and setued down in Kobe, in Japan, to try his luck] as a general. praciltioner. Here 1 was that he built up his art home and where he married his beloved wite, Kobe, at that time rather medium-sized place, did not fullll all the hopes von Schab had had for his work there and so ho} was only too glad to step over to) Shanghai and join up_ with -his old trend Erich Paulun. "Soon his sense of organization and his steady wi to create made him, together with Dr. Paulun, open one of the frst outdoor clinics for the poor Chinese in Shanghai and it is on the files of record of Shanghai that through this his enterprise modern medicine found one of its first and most. important channels of entrance, into the Far Enst and specially Shang-hal, What he and Paulun had bogue with the help of ce-citizens of Shanghhal of all nationalities, with only] small means but a great wish to help the poor, soon flourished and, attracted the poor in great numbers that the originators were forced to enlarge on their own scheme In 1907 a new Chi ifospital in Road and it was founded deutsche Medizinschule fuer!
en." Now von Schab's really was filled with Interest and] work to capacity and his never ending wish to create and educat® at the same time showed mos! marked signs of success. When his friend Paulun died in April 1900, von Schab turned his eyn on greater problems and soon we see him buying land in what is now called the French Concession on Rue Pere! Robert and, as a consequence, we see huge new buildings, laboratories, auditories, dormitories and all that University needs springing up in this place, When the Great" War began van Schab was caught what he considered the midst of construction and, "in 1017, when China entered the war and all, these new buildings and University' enterprises were token over by. the, French authorities, his plans for developing had not been half (ul filled.
It was really astounding to how this little professor with—the blue eyes and the grey hair who sermed to be radiating a never-ending Kindness to his patients and. the students as well as to his collexgues, had the energy in him all on his own to create something that was, at that time, entirely new and full of a personal note. If to-day the 'Tung Chi University is a State University of China, the foundation for all which has sprung up now 'Woosung where young China is taught the secrets of modern techni. cal and medical science, it wat surely created by the genius' of Dr Oskar von Schab. And so it will understood hat all who knew him will feel the loss of a personality like him, gone, too soon even. at the ripe age of 72; all the more tone feels that a man like him is hard to replace and will be found only once occasionally in a Tong space of time. In commemoration of all this the tender feelings of} sympathy of all those who knew! him will go to his sadly bereaved wife, son and daughter" who are mourning, for an ever beloved husband and' fat Mr. A. ©. Thomas The death is announced of Mr. A.C, Thomas of Messrs. Thomas, Pavitt & Ca, who passed away suddenly from " pneumonia last. Wednesday evening at the General Hospital after a brief illness.
The late Mr. Thomas, "who wor Jborn in Penzance, Cornwall, $4 years ago, has been more than thirty years out in the Far East, and has seen many chenges and many important events during his life out here. In Yokohama, during the Jdisastrous earthquake of 1923, he was instrumental in saving the life of an JAustralian lady, and "also. performed notable work during the Hongkong [Hotel fire a number of years ago.
Atter occupying positions in Java. Japan, the Straits Settlements, and] Hongkong, he came to Shanghai, and for a number of years hasbeen head of Thomas, Pavitt & Ca, manufacturers' representatives. In 1929, he was married in the Cathedral, his widow, Mrs. Mary Thomas, now surviving him; they have no ' chil-
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