Albert Frieben

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Ernst August Franz Albert Frieben (* 1875 ; † in the 20th century ) was a German doctor .

Career and work

Little is known about Albert Frieben's career. He did his Abitur in Hamm . The medical school closed Frieben 1898 with his thesis on the subject of congenital defect About the fibula at the University of Greifswald from.

In 1902, Frieben was the first to recognize the carcinogenic effects of X-rays . It was a keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (outdated designation at the time: 'Cancroid' or 'Kankroid') on the back of the right hand of a 33-year-old worker in a Hamburg company that produced X-ray tubes . The worker had used his hands as a test object every day for four years. Frieben realized that the constant contact of the hand with X-rays was the cause of the carcinoma .

From 1903 Frieben worked as an assistant doctor to Heinrich Albers-Schönberg , the first German X-ray specialist, at the St. Georg General Hospital in Hamburg. Little is known about Friebens further career. Until 1916 he lived in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg .

more publishments

  • A. Frieben: Testicular changes in animals after x-rays. In: German medical weekly. Number 52, 1902, p. 274.
  • A. Frieben: On the normal anatomy and histology of the worm head. In: Yearbook of the Hamburg State Hospitals. Volume 7, year 1899/1900, p. 101

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in part also Ernst Ludwig Franz Albert Frieben, so in the yearbooks of the Hamburg State Hospitals. Volume 7, Verlag FCW Vogel, 1902, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Festschrift to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal High School in Hamm iW on May 31, 1907. Printed by E. Griebsch, 1907, p. 206.
  3. ^ A. Frieben: About congenital defect of the fibula. Dissertation, 1898
  4. ↑ Annual reports on the progress of anatomy and evolutionary history. Volume 4, G. Fischer, 1899, p. 142.
  5. ↑ A. Frieben: Cancroid of the back of the right hand. In: German medical weekly. Volume 28, 1902, p. 335.
  6. ↑ E. Frieben: Demonstration of a cancroid on the back of the right hand, which developed after long-term exposure to X-rays in a 33-year-old man. In: Fortschr Röntgenstr. Volume 6, 1902, p. 106.
  7. ^ HW Haggard: The Conception of Cancer Before and After Johannes Müller. In: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Volume 14, Number 4, April 1938, pp. 183-197, ISSN  0028-7091 . PMID 19312055 . PMC 1911260 (free full text).
  8. ^ Negotiations of German Pathologists. Fischer, Volume 30, 1937, p. 242.
  9. ↑ O. Glasser (Ed.): Medical physics. Volume 2, Year Book Publishers, 1960, p. 151.
  10. ^ W. Frobenius: X-rays instead of scalpels: the Erlangen University Women's Clinic and the history of gynecological radiology from 1914-1945. Verlag Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2003, ISBN 3-930-35754-2 , p. 65.
  11. ↑ Berlin clinical weekly. A. Hirschwald, 1916, p. 1116.
personal data
SURNAME Frieben, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frieben, Ernst August Franz Albert; Frieben, Ernst Ludwig Franz Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1875
DATE OF DEATH 20th century