Alexander Lorey

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Alexander Lorey (born April 16, 1880 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 11, 1949 in Hamburg ) was a German radiologist and university professor.

Life

As the son of Justice Councilor Wilhelm Lorey, Alexander Lorey studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1899 he became active in the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . The Corps of his father recipierte him in May 1900. At the Friedrichs University Halle doctorate he in 1904 to Dr. med.

On April 1, 1906, he began medical training at the Hamburg General Hospital Eppendorf, first in pathology , then in internal medicine with Hermann Lenhartz and Hugo Schottmüller . With his particular interest in radiology , he became a specialist in this subject on August 1, 1912. On April 1, 1919, he became senior physician in the X-ray department in what is now the University Hospital in Eppendorf . Since March 14, 1924 professor and supported by Ludolph Brauer , he built up the Eppendorfer Radiology department. In November 1933 he signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities and colleges .

He left on December 31, 1934 and went to the neighboring Bethanien Hospital as chief physician . He died at the age of 69, leaving behind his wife, son and daughter.

Lorey was the first to receive the Hamburg Rescue Medal .

meaning

Lorey saw radiology as a specialty, but neglected neither the clinical nor the pathological references. With the exception of the surgeons, all specialist representatives came to his institute for clinical-radiological conferences every day. Scientifically, he dealt with the chest x-ray , Möller-Barlow disease , congenital syphilis , Albers-Schönberg disease and bronchography.

Works

  • with Eugen Fraenkel : The rickets in the X-ray . Hamburg 1910
  • with Ludolph Brauer : The radiological representation of the bronchi using contrast filling . Leipzig 1928
  • The General X-ray Institute of the General Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf . Rockefeller Foundation, New York 1929

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 42/803.
  2. ↑ Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen , Vol. 1: 1809–1899 Göttingen 2002
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The successes of artificial premature birth, with special consideration of the later fate of the children. 137 cases from the Kgl. University Women's Clinic in Halle a. S.
  4. ↑ a b Kurt Kremser: Alexander Lorey . Progress Röntgenstrasse 73 (1950), p. 501 f.
personal data
SURNAME Lorey, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lorey, Carl Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1949
Place of death Hamburg