Albert Doederlein

Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderlein (born July 5, 1860 in Augsburg , † December 10, 1941 in Munich ) was a German gynecologist (gynecologist).

The lactic acid bacteria Döderlein bacteria described by him in The vaginal secretion and its importance for puerperal fever (Zbl Bakteriol 11, 699) for the first time in the secretion of the vagina were named after him. He was also the one who introduced rubber gloves in obstetrics and gynecological treatments for aseptic reasons.

Career

Döderlein grew up as the son of a regimental doctor and studied medicine in Erlangen from 1879 to 1884 , where he became a member of the Germania Erlangen fraternity in the winter semester of 1879/80 . In 1884 he received his doctorate . He taught in Leipzig from 1888 , was appointed full professor in Groningen in 1897 , but went to Tübingen as a professor in the same year and finally took over the chair of retired Franz von Winckel at the University of Munich in 1907 .

Since 1918 he has been involved in the Munich commission for advice on questions of maintaining and increasing the power of the people . In 1926 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Title page by: Arthur Gütt / Ernst Rüdin / Falk Ruttke : Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases Offspring of July 14, 1933 . Munich 1934; with the indication of the contribution of Döderlein: The interventions to render women sterile .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis and the adoption of the sterilization law , he wrote a post on the official legal commentary: The procedures for sterilization of women and described in an applied by him since 1926 contraceptive method. After his retirement in 1934, he became co-editor of the Münchner Medizin Wochenschrift .

The gynecologist Gustav Döderlein , full professor at the Jena University Women's Clinic , was his son.

Trivia

In 1925, the Russian writer (and doctor) Mikhail Bulgakov quoted the dangers of the phrase from the "Döderlein" in one of his notes by a young doctor .

Publications (selection)

with Ernst Bach : Gynecological indications for abortion and sterility. In: Reichsärztekammer (Hrsg.): Guidelines for termination of pregnancy and sterility for health reasons. Edited by Hans Stadler. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1936, pp. 114-124

literature

Magnus Schmid: Döderlein, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 14 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Albert Döderlein in the catalog of the German National Library
Overview of Albert Döderlein's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1888 to summer semester 1897)
Albert Döderlein in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 114.
^ Wolfgang G. Locher: Döderlein, Albert. 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. 317 f.
^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 89.
↑ Albert Döderlein: The interventions to render women sterile. In: Arthur Gütt , Ernst Rüdin , Falk Ruttke (eds.): Law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring. Munich 1934.
↑ Albert Lehner: Ovary and fallopian tubes: anatomy studies in antiquity and modern times. Therapy concepts in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 17-35; here: p. 27 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Doederlein, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Döderlein, Albert Sigmund Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 1941
Place of death	Munich

[Klee114-1] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 114.

[2] Wolfgang G. Locher: Döderlein, Albert. 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. 317 f.

[3] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 89.

[4] Albert Döderlein: The interventions to render women sterile. In: Arthur Gütt , Ernst Rüdin , Falk Ruttke (eds.): Law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring. Munich 1934.

[5] Albert Lehner: Ovary and fallopian tubes: anatomy studies in antiquity and modern times. Therapy concepts in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 17-35; here: p. 27 f.