Alfred Adam (medic)

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Ludwig Friedrich Alfred Adam (born April 13, 1888 in Dahmsdorf ; † September 19, 1956 in Erlangen ) was a German doctor and university professor in the field of paediatrics .

Life

Adam grew up in Königsberg , attended the Collegium Fridericianum , a humanistic grammar school, until his final exams in 1906 , then studied medicine, first at the Albertus University in Königsberg , then in Munich and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1913. This was followed by a job as an assistant at the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Hamburg. During the First World War he was director of the bacteriological laboratory of the Balkan Army, after the end of the war he was assistant at the Institute for Vegetative Physiology in Frankfurt.

From 1918 until his habilitation in 1922 he worked at the Heidelberg Children's Clinic under Ernst Moro , then as senior physician and associate professor at the Hamburg University Children's Clinic and University of Hamburg under Hans Kleinschmidt . In Hamburg he married Elisabeth Düring in 1928 and moved to the Free City of Danzig in 1929 to take up the position of director of the children's clinic at the municipal hospital. The children Hans and Edith were born in 1929 and 1932. In 1935 Adam was appointed full professor of paediatrics at the newly founded Medical Academy for Practical Medicine . During this time he founded the Danzig School for Infant and Child Sisters, was responsible for expanding the children's department from 30 to 300 beds and adding an infection department.

From September 1934, Adam also held the newly created position as a state pediatrician for the city of Danzig. Adam rejected the so-called child euthanasia , was dismissed as a civil servant in 1938 because of his resistance to the Nazi regime and relieved of all official duties, and worked as a resident pediatrician until the end of the war. In January 1939 he resigned from the German Society for Pediatrics , to which he had been a member since 1921, because of "the society's National Socialist political attitudes".

From 1948 he was co-editor of the monthly magazine for paediatrics and the journal Archive for paediatrics , as well as a member of the physico-medical law firm Erlangen. Until his retirement on August 31, 1956, he taught at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, after he was appointed to the chair of paediatrics there in 1946, was director of the University Children's Clinic Erlangen and from 1952 chairman of the German Society for Pediatrics . Among other things, he was a member of the German Central Committee for Combating Tuberculosis and, since 1951, of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Adam's main interest was infant nutritional physiology . In 1923 he discovered dyspepsia coli in the small intestine of babies with diarrhea. In the course of his work, he researched the intestinal flora of infants, in particular Bifidobacterium bifidum, Escherichia coli and rickets prophylaxis .

Publications (selection)

  • Alfred Adam, Ottheinz Braun: Infant Enteritis . Thieme, 1956
  • The biology of the small intestinal coli and its relationship to the pathogenesis of intoxication . (Habilitation thesis), 1922
  • Recurrent nerve paralysis in mediastinitis: From the internal department of the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin . (Dissertation), 1913

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Rexroth, pp. 221–225
  2. ^ Christian Rexroth, pp. 238, 239
  3. ↑ Christian Rexroth, p. 271
  4. ↑ Christian Rexroth, pp. 245, 253
  5. ^ Christian Rexroth, pp. 267, 268
  6. ↑ Johannes Oehme, p. 22
  7. ↑ Christian Rexroth, p. 280
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adam, Ludwig Friedrich Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human medicine, doctor for paediatrics
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahmsdorf, Müncheberg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1956
Place of death gain