Bernhard Zondek

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Bernhard Zondek

Bernhard Zondek (born July 29, 1891 in Wronke , Posen ; † November 8, 1966 in New York ) was a German - Israeli gynecologist , pioneer of hormone research and brother of the university professors Hermann Zondek (1887–1979) and Samuel Georg Zondek (1894 -1970).

Life

Zondek studied medicine in Berlin and received his doctorate there in 1919. He then worked as an assistant under Karl Franz at the Berlin Charité , where he qualified as a professor in 1923 for obstetrics and gynecology. From 1926 he was an associate professor at the "Friedrich-Wilhelms" University in Berlin . From 1929 to 1933 he headed the gynecological department of the Spandau Hospital. After the National Socialists took over Zondek on September 5, 1933, because of his Jewish origin, according to § 3 of the Professional Civil Service Act released from the medical faculty. Zondek worked for a year in Stockholm at the Biochemical University Institute, which was headed by Hans von Euler . In 1934 he went to Palestine, where he worked from 1935 to 1961 at the Hassadah Medical School of the Jerusalem Hebrew University as a professor for gynecology and obstetrics and as head of the hormone research laboratory there. He died on a trip in New York.

Bernhard Zondek created in 1928 together with Selmar Aschheim the first early test method for pregnancy detection , the rabbit test .

Fonts

  • On the pathology of sublimate nephrosis. From the 1st medical university clinic of the Charité. Berlin med. Diss. From March 28, 1919.
  • The hormones of the ovary and the anterior pituitary gland: studies on the biology and clinic of female genital function. Springer, Berlin 1931.
  • Genital Functions and Their Hormonal Regulation. 1941.

literature

  • Adolf Mekler: Experiences with the hormonal pregnancy reaction according to Aschheim-Zondek and Friedman-Lapham. Dissertation. University of Zurich 1937.
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
  • Hans-Peter Kröner: Zondek, Bernhard. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005 ( ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ), p. 1532.
  • Zondek, Bernhard , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 1282f.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Schagen: The expulsions from the Berlin Medical Faculty 1933 . In: Sabine Schleiermacher / Udo Schagen (ed.): The Charité in the Third Reich. On the easement of medical science under National Socialism. Paderborn et al. 2008, pp. 51-66
  2. ^ Matthias David / Andreas D. Ebert : History of the Berlin University Women's Clinics. Structures, people and events inside and outside the Charité . Berlin 2010, p. 140
personal data
SURNAME Zondek, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wronke , Poznan
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1966
Place of death new York