Albert Uffenheimer

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Albert Uffenheimer (born May 24, 1876 in Fürth ; † April 9, 1941 in Albany , USA ) was a doctor .

Life

Uffenheimer was born the son of a Jewish businessman and first attended a grammar school in Nuremberg . He then studied in Würzburg , Munich and Berlin medicine . After receiving his doctorate in Munich in 1899 (title of the dissertation: On the histiology and histiogenesis of the papillary cystoma of the ovary "), he took a job at the Berlin Urban Hospital from 1900. At this institution he succeeded in cultivating Bacillus aerophilus agilis .

He then took on a position as an assistant doctor at the Royal University Children's Hospital in Greifswald , but in 1903 he went to the Haunersche Children's Hospital in Munich, where he worked until 1905.

Uffenheimer married in 1906. The daughter Eva († 1997) emerged from the marriage in 1913.

After Uffenheimer completed his habilitation in Munich in 1906 (title of the habilitation thesis: Experimental studies on the patency of the migration of the gastrointestinal canal of newborn animals for bacteria and genuine proteins), he took over the management of an infant advice center in Munich's Westend from 1908 to 1909. In 1911 he became chief physician of the laboratories and from 1915 associate professor of the Royal University Children's Hospital in Munich.

During the First World War , Uffenheimer was employed as a hospital and command doctor. After the end of the war he first opened a private practice in Munich before becoming director of the children's clinic at the Magdeburg-Altstadt municipal hospital in 1925 . He succeeded Hans Vogt as the city ​​pediatrician and modernized the clinic. In 1926 he also took over the children's infection department from Max Otten . In 1929 he appointed the first clinical senior physician, Charlotte Struve .

After the National Socialists came to power, Uffenheimer had to leave his clinic within one day for racist reasons. He left Magdeburg and first moved to Kattenhorn on Lake Constance . At Easter 1938 he received an invitation to emigrate immediately . First Uffenheimer therefore moved to London , where he worked with difficult-to-educate boys. In 1940 he went to the Siena College as a lecturer . Here he died of a heart attack on April 9, 1941 .

Honors

The city of Magdeburg named a place in his honor ( Albert-Uffenheimer-Platz ).

Fonts

Uffenheimer wrote 30 scientific papers and was one of the co-editors of the monthly magazine for paediatrics .

  • Why are the children not getting on in school? Two lectures before the school commission of the Medical Association in Munich; together with Otto Stählin.

Munich, Verl. Der Ärztl. Rundschau (Otto Gmelin) 1907 (The doctor as an educator. Collection of commonly understood medical treatises. 28) (Several editions)

  • Child and youth welfare. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1910.
  • Bed-wetting disease in childhood and adolescence. Walter, Olten 1937.

literature

  • Wilhelm Thal: Uffenheimer, Albert. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: The New York Times April 10, 1941
  2. ^ Obituary in The Siena News. Loudonville, New York April 25, 1941, p. 4
  3. ↑ In Memoriam. In: Siena College Yearbook. 1941, p. 88
  4. ^ Obituary: Times-Union. Albany, New York, April 10, 1941; "Uffenheimer, Siena College Teacher, Dies" Knickerbocker News. Albany, New York, April 9, 1941, p. 14-A
personal data
SURNAME Uffenheimer, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uffenheimer, Albert Maurus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1941
Place of death Albany , USA