Alfred Roseno

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Alfred Roseno (born July 31, 1896 in Hamburg ; died January 29, 1965 in New York City ) was a German surgeon and urologist in the Weimar Republic . After the Nazis came to power , the Jewish doctor emigrated with his family to the United States , where he continued his scientific and medical career.

Life

Alfred Roseno was born in 1896 as the third of four children to Ismar Roseno , a Jewish merchant and master furrier from the Spreewald, and his wife Sara. He studied medicine in Munich, Berlin, Rostock and Gießen. In 1920 he received his doctorate at the Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg . He initially worked as an assistant doctor to Paul Rosenstein at the Israeli hospital in Berlin. Here he began his scientific career. He researched and published in Berlin on pneumoradiograms as well as kidney diseases and operations.

In 1925 he took up a position as an assistant doctor at the Augusta Hospital in Cologne . In the 1920s he conducted research in the field of excretory urography , the representation of the urinary pathways with contrast media . He initially experimented with sodium iodine compounds and published his results in 1929 in the work The intravenous pyelography . In 1930 he was appointed as the successor to Fritz Cahen as chief physician of the surgical department of the Israelite Asylum in Cologne-Neuehrenfeld .

In 1931 he married Agnes Bendix, the daughter of the specialist in internal medicine, Ernst Bendix. Agnes Roseno received her doctorate in 1933 in Würzburg in literary studies with the topic: The development of the letter theory from 1655 to 1709. Alfred Roseno emigrated to the United States in 1936 with his wife and one-year-old daughter Susanne.

Due to his excellent scientific reputation , he was able to continue his professional career here at the Israel Zion Hospital (today: Maimonides Medical Center) until his death in January 1965.

Commemoration

Stumbling block for Dr. Alfred Roseno in front of the house entrance Bismarckstrasse 5, Cologne-Neustadt-Nord .

In April 2018, three stumbling blocks were laid in front of the family's home in Cologne at Bismarckstrasse 5 in memory of Alfred Roseno and his wife and daughter as part of the art and monument project by Cologne artist Gunter Demnig .

Alfred Roseno was one of the few surgeons who ensured the surgical care of Cologne's Jews after the National Socialists came to power and the increasing number of Jewish patients rejected in the state hospitals. The life and suffering of a young patient, Amalie (Amelia) banner , the Roseno 1934 in Ehrenfeld at the age of eleven years due to a tumor a leg in Israrelitischen asylum amputate had been through numerous letters and postcards of Amalie banner from the Warsaw Ghetto handed and published. Shortly before she died of starvation in late 1941, she corresponded with Alfred Roseno in New York.

Works by Alfred Roseno (selection)

  • The importance of the blood count in the symptomatology and therapy of purulent mastoiditis , Archive for Ear, Nose and Larynx Medicine, Volume 112, 1924, pp. 30–42
  • The acute rheumatic tendinitis . Klinische Wochenschrift, Volume 4, Issue 14, 1925, p. 646 ff.
  • Are the oral agents for radiographic gallbladder imaging reliable? DMW, Volume 52, 1926, pp. 1949f.
  • The pneumogradiogram of the kidney bed when showing the gallbladder. German Journal for Surgery, Volume 198, 1926, pp. 250-258
  • The nephrotomy. Preventing them and the way to prevent their dangers . Journal of Urology and Surgery, Volume 20, 1926, p. 96ff.
  • The modern treatment of kidney stone disease . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1927
  • Intravenous pyelography . In: Negotiations of the German Society for Urology, 9th Urology Congress Munich, special volume of the Zeitschrift für Urologie, Thieme, Leipzig 1929, pp. 337–343

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sylvia Kolley: List of names of the Niederlausitz Jews M - Z. Retrieved on May 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ uni-rostock.de: Matriculation of Alfred Roseno (October 13, 1917) , accessed on May 16, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c Jewish urologists in the Rhineland during the Nazi era - persecution, expulsion, murder . In: Thorsten Halling, Friedrich Moll (ed.): Urology in the Rhineland . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-44697-3 , pp. 98-123 .
  4. ↑ Jürgen Konert, Holger G. Dietrich: Illustrated history of urology . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-18656-1 , p. 207 .
  5. ^ Barbara Becker-Jákli: The Jewish Hospital in Cologne. The history of the Israelite asylum for the sick and the elderly 1869–1945 . In: Writings of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne . tape 11 . Emons, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-350-0 , p. 232 .
  6. ↑ Barbara Becker-Jákli: The Jewish hospital in Cologne: the history of the Israelite asylum for the sick and the elderly from 1869 to 1945 . Emons, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89705-350-0 , p. 402 .
  7. ↑ J. Bellmann: Urologists in National Socialism: persecuted, expelled and murdered urologists. Overview of persons and overview of the sources used . In: Urologist . tape 51 . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2012, p. 996 -1002 .
  8. ^ Simon Goldmann: Contributions to the history of the Jews in Cologne . In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association . tape 43 , no. 1 . Cologne 1971, p. 267 .
  9. ↑ Alfred Roseno . In: New York Medicine . tape 21 . New York 1965, p. 352 .
  10. ↑ Dieter Corbach: Cologne and Warsaw are two worlds: Amalie Banner: Suffering from Nazi terror . In: Searching for traces of Jewish activity . tape 5 . Scriba, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-921232-43-0 , p. 13; 79 .
personal data
SURNAME Roseno, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urologist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1965
Place of death New York City