Alois Pick

Alois Pick (born October 15, 1859 in Karolinenthal near Prague , Austrian Empire , † July 17, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian internist . He discovered Pappataci fever .

Life

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Pick studied medicine in Vienna and at the Charles University in Prague . At the divided Karl-Ferdinand University doctorate he in 1883 to Dr. med. and worked for Philipp Knoll . He then went to the Austro-Hungarian Army as a medical officer in 1887 . He served first in the Prague garrison hospital , then as a garrison doctor in Trebinje , Herzegovina . In 1886/87 he was assigned to Robert Koch in Berlin, then to Hermann Nothnagel at the Vienna General Hospital for a year , where he held an outpatient clinic for stomach and intestinal patients . In 1899 he was assigned to the kuk general staff. He headed the department for internal medicine in the Vienna Garrison Hospital I and qualified as a professor for internal medicine in 1890. In 1904 he received the honorary title of associate professor .

In the First World War, he was appointed general chief medical officer with the rank of field marshal lieutenant, and played a key role in developing the medical services of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces . Honored with the title of full professor in 1918 , he retired from the medical service. In the First Republic he was President of the Israelite Community of Vienna from 1920 to 1932 . He was involved in welfare .

He wrote the farce letter plates for lovers and Lord Beefsteak and was performed at the Burgtheater .

On the teaching of the breathing movements of emphysematics . Prague Medical Weekly 17 (1883)
Contributions to the pathology and therapy of cardiac neuroses . Prague Medical Weekly 44 (1884).
The respiratory gas exchange of healthy and diseased lungs . Journal of Clinical Medicine.
About the moving heart . Wiener clinical Wochenschrift 1889.
On the question of hepatogenic dyspepsia . Wiener clinical Wochenschrift 1903.
with Adolf Franz Hecht: Clinical semiotics, with special consideration of the dangerous symptoms and their treatment . Vienna 1908. GoogleBooks
Lectures on stomach and intestinal diseases . Vienna 1895. Reprint 2012. GoogleBooks
Interrelationships between diseases of the digestive organs and the nervous system. Perles 1925. GoogleBooks

Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 13, 1974, Col. 499
Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz 1925 edition), Volume 5, pp. 28-29
M. Jantsch, GH Marcus: Alois Pick, the discoverer of the Pappataci fever . Wiener Medical Wochenschrift 111 (1961), pp. 801-803.
M. Jantsch: Pick, Alois (1859–1945), internist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 60.
Pick, Alois. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Julius Pagel : Pick, Alois . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp. 1292–1293 .

Commons : Alois Pick - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

↑ ^a ^b ^c M. Jantsch: Pick, Alois (1859-1945), internist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 60.
↑ M. Jantsch, GH. Marcus: Alois PICK, the discoverer of pappataci fever , Vienna Med Wochenschr. 1961 Nov 25; 111: 801-3., PMID 14037116
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Salomon Wininger: Great Jewish National Biography , Volume 5, pp. 28-29
↑ ^a ^b Pick, Alois. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
↑ Picture of Pick's grave

personal data
SURNAME	Pick, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian medical officer and internist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlín (Prague)
DATE OF DEATH	July 17, 1945
Place of death	Vienna