Alfred Groth

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Alfred Groth (born October 16, 1876 in Kehl , † March 27, 1971 in Munich ) was a German doctor and social hygienist, honorary professor and specialist author.

Life

The son of the mineralogist Paul Heinrich von Groth and his wife Rosalie Maria, née Levy, came to Munich at the age of seven after their father took up a professorship at Ludwig Maximilians University in 1883 . In the school year 1886/87 he entered the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich and passed the Abitur examination here in 1895, among others with his brother Otto as well as Otto von Baeyer and Fritz Gablonsky .

He studied medicine at the University of Munich and obtained his doctorate in 1900. med. with a topic from neurology . After an assistant at the "Central-Impfanstalt" in Munich and temporarily working as a deputy coroner in the 26th district (until 1909), he completed his habilitation with a thesis on medical statistics. In 1913 he was appointed "Central Vaccine Doctor". In the last year of the war he was transferred to "Russian Poland" with the rank of chief medical officer and returned to Munich in April 1918. From the 1920s he taught "medical statistics" as a private lecturer at the university. In his numerous publications and specialist lectures, he mainly dealt with statistical studies in the field of social hygiene and, in particular, with infant mortality.

In 1902 Alfred Groth married the factory owner's daughter Josepha Nett (* 1878) in Frankfurt am Main. The marriage, which was divorced in 1926, had four daughters, Juliane (* 1902), Hedwig (* 1909, † 1913) and the twins Hildegard and Gertrud (* 1914). He lived all his life in the house on Kaulbachstrasse 62, which his father had acquired in 1892.

Fonts (selection)

  • Via the lobus impar of the medulla oblongata in cyprinoids. Inaugurial dissertation. Kastner & Lossen, Munich 1901.
  • To assess infant mortality in Munich . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Volume 51. Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1905, p. 249 ff.
  • On the methodology of statistical surveys on infant nutrition (with Martin Hahn). In: Centralblatt für Allgemeine Gesundheitspflege. 25th year. Martin Hager, Bonn 1906, p. 234.
  • How to behave with vaccine lymphs to prevent further infection . In: Report on the XIV. International Congress for Hygiene and Demography, Berlin, 23. – 29. September 1907. Ed. from the congress management. Edited by Secretary General Prof. Dr. Riveter. Vol. 2 August Hirschwald, Berlin 1908, pp. 1148–1153.
  • The infant relationships in Bavaria by Alfred Groth and Martin Hahn. Reprint from the journal of K. Bayer. Statistical State Office, year 1910, issue 1, J. Gotteswinter, Munich 1910.
  • About the influence of the occupational structure of the Bavarian people on the development of mortality and fertility in the last decades. Habilitation thesis. Oldenbourg, Munich 1912.
  • Infant mortality . In: Grotjahn, Alfred / Kaup, Ignaz (Hrsg.): Hand dictionary for social hygiene, Berlin 1912, pp. 279–292.
  • Neo-Malthusianism . In: Ärztlicher Verein München (Ed.): To maintain and increase people's strength. JF Lehmann, Munich 1918, pp. 127-134.
  • About determining the value of protective pox lymph . In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Vol. 92. Springer, Berlin 1921, p. 129.
  • About obtaining germ-free protective pox lymph (with K. Arnold). In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1922, p. 1580.
  • Revaccination results in Berlin and Munich (with K. Arnold). In: Journal for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Vol. 108. Springer, Berlin 1928, p. 578.
  • Conscience clause in the German vaccination law . In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 1934, No. 14, JF Lehmann, Munich 1934, p. 125.

literature

  • General Library of the Bavarian Libraries (Ed.): Bayerische Bibliographie 1971–1973. CH Beck, Munich 1978, p. 280.
  • A. Herrlich: Dr. Alfred Groth on his 90th birthday . In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift, October 14, 1966.
  • H. Stickl: In memoriam Professor Dr. Alfred Groth , in: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt 26, 1971, No. 5, p. 497 (photo).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1894/95
  2. ↑ area occupied by the German Reich and Austria; included Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, Belarus and Polish Ukraine
  3. ↑ https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10957/1/pvz_lmu_1922_23_wise.pdf
  4. ↑ until 1938 (probably because of his classification as a half-Jew); see. www.100-jahre-sozialmedizin.de/CD_DGSMP/PdfFiles/Dokumente/Hubenstorf.pdf
  5. ↑ Police registration documents, family records: Munich, City Archives
  6. ↑ Laetitia Boehm, Johannes Spörl (ed.): The Ludwig Maximilians University in their faculties. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1972, p. 434
personal data
SURNAME Groth, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and medical statistician
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Throat
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1971
Place of death Munich