Alexander von Lichtenberg

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Alexander von Lichtenberg (born January 20, 1880 in Budapest , † April 21, 1949 in Mexico City ) was a Hungarian - German urologist .

Life

The son of a Budapest ear, nose and throat doctor studied medicine in Budapest and Heidelberg and worked as a doctor at the surgical university clinic in Heidelberg. Together with his then co-assistant Friedrich Voelcker , he later founded the magazine for urological surgery . After von Lichtenberg switched to what was then Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in Strasbourg in 1908 , he completed his habilitation there in 1910 under Otto Wilhelm Madelung on the subject of "Newer Methods of Kidney Awareness". In 1920 he moved to Berlin , where he initially worked as a practical orthopedic surgeon and, from 1922, helped set up the urological department of the St. Hedwig Hospital as a consulting urologist . Together with Moses Swick, he obtained usable x-ray images of the kidneys for the first time in 1929 using the contrast agent uroselectan . He was co-editor of the five-volume “Handbuch der Urologie”, was chairman of the German Association of Urologists, an honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Medical Association.

During the Nazi era , he was dismissed from all positions in 1936 because of his Jewish descent and his teaching license was revoked. He and his family first emigrated to Budapest , where he was unable to gain a foothold because of Hungarian anti-Semitism, and finally to Mexico in 1939 . There he died in 1949 of complications from an abdominal disease.

aftermath

In memory of Alexander von Lichtenberg, the German Society for Urology and the Professional Association of German Urologists, together with the company Takeda Pharma, have been awarding an Alexander von Lichtenberg Prize endowed with 5000 euros to established urologists since 2000, “who in their daily work make outstanding achievements in the field of outpatient urology. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alexander von Lichtenberg (1880–1949). Farco-Pharma, accessed December 13, 2008 .
  2. ↑ a b A pioneer in urology. Takeda Pharma, accessed December 13, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Alexander von Lichtenberg, MD, 1880-1945. In: Website of the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History. American Urological Association, accessed December 13, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Alexander von Lichtenberg, Moses Swick: Basics and implementation of the intravenous representation of the urinary tract. In: Zentralblatt für Gynälologie. Volume 53, 1929, p. 3387.
  5. ↑ Alexander von Lichtenberg, Moses Swick: Clinical examination of the uroselectans. In: Clinical weekly. Volume 8, 1929, pp. 2089-2091.
  6. ↑ Moses Swick: Representation of the kidney and urinary tract in the X-ray image by intravenous introduction of a new contrast substance, the uroselectans. In: Clinical weekly. Volume 8, 1929, pp. 2087-2089.
  7. ^ Horst Kremling : Würzburger Contributions to Gynecological Urology. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 5-11, here: p. 6.
  8. ^ René Geoffroy: Hungary as a place of refuge and place of work for German-speaking emigrants (1933–1938 / 39) . Frankfurt am Main: Lang 2001, p. 180 f
  9. ↑ Alexander von Lichtenberg Prize. Takeda Pharma, accessed December 13, 2008 .
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenberg, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German urologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1949
Place of death Mexico city