Adolf Gottstein

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Adolf Gottstein

Adolf Gottstein (born November 2, 1857 in Breslau ; † March 3, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German doctor, epidemiologist , social hygienist and health politician .

Life

Adolf Gottstein was the son of the Breslau merchant Emanuel Gottstein (1825–1882) and his wife Rose Behrend (1838–1922). Leo Gottstein was his brother.

After attending the humanistic grammar school in Breslau, he studied medicine in Breslau, Strasbourg and Leipzig. There he obtained his doctorate in 1881 with a dissertation on marantic thrombosis . This was followed by a year of military service. In 1875 he became a member of the old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks . From 1882 he worked as an assistant doctor at the Wenzel-Hancke hospital in Breslau. When he moved to Berlin, he maintained a private medical practice from 1884 to 1911. In his free time he devoted himself to researching bacteriological problems, working in the laboratories of the pathologist Carl Friedländer , the pharmacologist Oscar Liebreich and the bacteriologist Robert Koch . Later he turned to epidemiological and medical statistical studies as well as social hygiene issues. His scientific results were reflected in numerous publications, compilations and journal articles.

In 1906 he was appointed unpaid city ​​councilor , and in 1911 paid city medical councilor for Charlottenburg. In 1905 he was appointed to the Medical Council and in 1914 to the Secret Medical Council. In 1919 (until 1924) he took over as ministerial director in the Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare at the head of the Prussian medical administration (as successor to Martin Kirchner ). In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Here he developed progressive activities in all areas of health policy. Thanks to his initiative the Midwives, Tuberculosis and Cripple Welfare Act, the founding of the Prussian State Health Council and the creation of the Academies for Social Hygiene in Breslau, Charlottenburg and Düsseldorf for the training of doctors in the public health system.

Furthermore, in 1905 he co-founded the Society for Social Medicine, Hygiene and Medical Statistics and in 1926 the journal for the entire hospital system . With Alfred Grotjahn, Arthur Schlossmann and Ludwig Teleky, he is considered the founder of social hygiene. For his services he was honored as titular professor in 1918 and in 1924 with the title of City Elder of Berlin .

After the takeover of the Nazis in 1933 he had to resign all honorary positions on racial grounds.

tomb

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf . His grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave .

Works

  • The use of bacteriology in clinical diagnostics , Berlin 1887.
  • Immunity, Infection Theory, and Diphtheria Serum. Three critical essays , Berlin 1894. (with CL Schleich)
  • Epidemiological studies on diphtheria and scarlet fever , Berlin 1895.
  • General epidemiology , Leipzig 1897.
  • Acquired immunity in human infectious diseases , Berlin 1897.
  • History of hygiene in the 19th century. , Berlin 1901.
  • The periodicity of diphtheria and its causes ; Berlin 1903.
  • Social hygiene, its methods, tasks and goals , Leipzig 1907.
  • Introduction to the study of social medicine. In: German Clinic at the Entrance of the 20th Century. Advances in German Clinic 3 (1913), pp. 415–592.
  • Infant health care and the war , Leipzig / Berlin 1917.
  • Social medical internship; A guide for medical practitioners, district doctors, school doctors, infant doctors, poor doctors and health insurance doctors . Berlin 1918. (with Gustav Tugendreich, A.Gastpar and others)
  • People feeding, schoolchildren feeding, emergency feeding, cash feeding. In: Weyl's Handbook of Hygiene. Erg.Bd. Social Hygiene, Section 2, 2.A., Leipzig 1918.
  • The new health care , Leipzig 1920.
  • Illness and People's Welfare , Berlin 1920.
  • The healing being of the present. Health education and health policy , Berlin 1924.
  • Manual of social hygiene and health care , 6 vol., Berlin 1925-1927. (with A. Schlossmann and L. Teleky)
  • Adolf Gottstein [autobiography], in: LR Grote (Hrsg.): The medicine of the present in self-portrayals. Vol. IV, Leipzig 1925, pp. 53-91.
  • School health care , Leipzig 1926.
  • Medical statistics. In: Handbücherei der Staatsmedizin, Vol. 14 u. 15, Berlin 1928, pp. 206-271.
  • The lesson from the epidemics , Berlin 1929.
  • Handbook for the entire hospital system , 7 vols., Berlin 1930. (Ed.)
  • General epidemiology of tuberculosis , Berlin 1931.
  • Hospital operation 1926-1930 , Berlin 1932. (with Wilhelm Hoffmann)
  • Epidemiology - Basic Concepts and Results , Leipzig / Vienna 1937.
  • Epidemiologia general de la tuberculosis , Madrid 1943.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Koppitz, Alfons Labisch : Gottstein, Adolf. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 505.
personal data
SURNAME Gottstein, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1941
Place of death Berlin