Private Life
Landsteiner was serving at a war hospital in 1916 when, at the age of 48, he married Leopoldine Helene Wlasto. Their only child, a son, was born the following year and was christened Ernst Karl on April 8, 1917. He was to become a surgeon in Providence, Rhode Island.
In 1929 Landsteiner became a United States citizen.
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