Herbert Herxheimer

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Herbert Gotthold Joachim Herxheimer (born December 11, 1894 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 18, 1985 in London ) was a German physician.

Herbert Herxheimer became a doctor in 1920 and a specialist in internal medicine in 1924 . In 1926, he has for the subject internal medicine as a student of Gustav von Bergmann at the Berlin Charité habilitation . In 1932 he was appointed a non-civil servant associate professor at what was then the Charité, belonging to the Friedrich Wilhelms University (now Humboldt University ).

Because of his Jewish origin, he was in 1935 his license to practice medicine because of the fourth Ordinance to the Reich Citizenship Law deprived. In 1938 Herxheimer emigrated to London, where he began to work scientifically on the subject of bronchial asthma . In 1956, after returning from exile in England, he took over the chair for internal medicine with a focus on allergy research at the Free University of Berlin. Herbert Herxheimer retired on November 1, 1970.

Herxheimer made a. a. Discoveries Related to the Respiratory Allergic Response . It is thanks to his research and foresight that the Free University of Berlin and Berlin Medicine have founded a special allergy and asthma polyclinic. In 1976 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding medical and scientific achievements .

Herbert Herxheimer was the father of the British pharmacologist Andrew Herxheimer , who founded the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin and inspired his father to create the Medicines Letter.

further reading

  • Herxheimer, Herbert Gotthold Joachim. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933. Volume 2, Part 1: A – K. The Arts, Scienes, and Literature. Edited by Hannah Caplan and Belinda Rosenblatt, KG Saur, Munich a. a. 1983 (English and German), p. 498.

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  2. ↑ a b Sabine Schleiermacher, Udo Schagen : The Charité in the Third Reich: on the servitude of medical science under National Socialism . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2008, p. 59.
personal data
SURNAME Herxheimer, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herxheimer, Herbert Gotthold Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1985
Place of death London