Albert Eckstein (pediatrician)

Albert Eckstein (born February 9, 1891 in Ulm , † June 18, 1950 in Hamburg ) was a German pediatrician and university professor .

Life

Born the second son into a Jewish factory owner family, Eckstein studied medicine in Freiburg , Leipzig and Munich against his father's wishes . Even as a student he worked and published in physiology and anatomy . 1915 doctorate he became Dr. med. After taking part in the First World War as a medical officer , he became a scientific assistant in the Freiburg physiology department. In 1920 he moved to the children's clinic under Carl Noeggerath , where he completed his habilitation in 1923 .

As a private lecturer and senior physician , he went to Arthur Schloßmann in 1925 , who headed the children's clinic at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . Eckstein married his daughter Erna , whom he had met in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1926 he became associate professor and representative, then successor to his father-in-law .

Discriminated as a Jew under the Nuremberg Laws , Eckstein was released in 1935 under "extremely shameful circumstances" ( Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann ) in Düsseldorf. With his family , he went in the same year by Ankara , where the new University of Ankara German professors sought. Max Meyer headed the ENT clinic. Since there was no regular children's clinic yet, Eckstein and his wife set up polyclinics . His assistant was İhsan Doğramacı , who should contribute to great changes in the medical system of his country. The preventive medicine and milk supply he operated reduced the very high infant mortality rate of 50% . Eckstein mastered the Turkish language so well that he could write a Turkish textbook . He was also known as a photographer of Turkish rural life .

In the post-war period Eckstein was offered four West German chairs - Freiburg, Giessen , Munich and Würzburg . The Medical Academy in Düsseldorf has now made him an honorary member. Fritz Goebel , the head of the academy, offered him a chair there, Eckstein declined. In order to be closer to their two sons, who were raised in England , he and his wife decided to return to Germany. In 1950 he followed the call of the University of Hamburg . A few months later he died of a heart attack . His predecessor Erich Rominger gave the funeral oration .

His son Herbert Eckstein became a pediatric urologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital .

See also

• Jewish pediatricians

literature

• Neja Akar: Bozkır Çocuklarına Bir Umut Dr. Albert Eckstein. Gürer Yayınları ve Pazarlama, Istanbul 2008, ISBN 978-605578502-4 (Turkish)
• Katrin Bürgel, Karoline Riener: Academic emigration under National Socialism. The pediatrician A. Eckstein and health care in Turkey (= sources and research from the Düsseldorf University Archives . Vol. 2). University archive , Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-9807334-5-9
• Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann: “Actually, I am nowhere at home”. Records (= Jewish Memoirs. Vol. 17). Edited by Lorenz Peter Johannsen. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-942271-74-5
• Reiner Möckelmann : Ankara waiting room. Ernst Reuter . Exile and return to Berlin. BWV, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8305-3143-2 , pp. 115–121

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Eckstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Düsseldorf's doctors in the Third Reich: From child rescuers and war criminals , by Ute Rasch, Rheinische Post , March 17, 2019, with photo: The team of doctors at the Düsseldorf Children's Clinic in 1930: in the middle, “Child Rescuer”, head physician Arthur Schlossmann and his deputy and son-in-law Albert Eckstein (4th from right)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Erna Schlossmann
2. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann: Albert Eckstein . Eur J Pediatr 153 (1994), p. 303 (with picture).
3. ↑ Çimen Günay-Erkol, Arnold Reisman: Émigré Albert Eckstein's Legacy on Health Care Modernization in Turkey: Two Generations of Students Who Have Made Major Contributions , p. 40
4. ^ Nejat Akar: Modernizer of Turkey's Pediatrics - Albert Eckstein in Exile
5. ↑ Émigré A. Eckstein's Legacy on Health Care Modernization in Turkey (PDF; 778 kB)
6. ↑ AE's wife - a selection from all of her awards