Aloys Greither

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Aloys Greither (born December 29, 1913 in Mittelberg , Vorarlberg , Austria-Hungary , † July 20, 1986 ) was a German dermatologist .

Life

Aloys Greither was baptized as Alois Greither. He later wrote his first name with y , based on Aloysius . From April 15, 1926, he attended grammar school in Dillingen an der Donau , where he passed the final examination in March 1933 .

During the time of National Socialism Greither was not a member of the NSDAP and was otherwise not close to National Socialism . From the summer of 1933 he studied philosophy ( psychology , education , art history , musicology ) and from the winter semester 1934/35 parallel to this, medicine at the universities of Munich , Freiburg im Breisgau , Tübingen and again in Munich. In 1936 he received his doctorate in Munich under Aloys Fischer , who was harassed because of his Jewish wife, to become Dr. phil. The subject of the dissertation was the suicide of young people, u. a. from the perspective of psychoanalysis defamed as Jewish by the National Socialists . The book was banned. In 1940 Greither finished his medical studies in Munich with the dissertation on the causes of premature births as a Dr. med. During the Second World War he was used as a military doctor .

From May 1945 Greither worked with Karl Heinrich Bauer at the surgical clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital . A year later he moved to the Dermatology Clinic at Walther Schönfeld , where he completed his dermatological training and, in 1951, qualified as a professor for dermatology and venereology and became a senior physician in the outpatient department . After teaching, he was appointed adjunct professor and first senior physician in 1957 .

For a short time, on January 1, 1962, he took over the management of the skin clinic at the Aachen City Hospital , followed by Walter Gahlen . From August 1, 1962, he became a full professor and director of the Dermatology Clinic at the Düsseldorf University Hospital, succeeding Hans Theodor Schreus .

In addition to his dermatological scientific work, especially on keratotic genodermatoses, he also wrote a large number of music and art history works. According to him, which was Keratodermia palmoplantaris transgrediens et Progrediens that Greither Syndrome , named.

Fonts

Medical

  • Keratosis extremitatum hereditaria progrediens with dominant inheritance. In: The dermatologist . Vol. 3 (1952), pp. 198-203.
  • Meleda's disease (Mljet). In: The dermatologist. Vol. 5 (1954), pp. 447-450.
  • Dermatology of the oral cavity and the oral environment: systematics, morphology and basic principles of treatment. Thieme, Stuttgart 1955.
  • Dermatology and Venereology: A Propaedeutic and Systematics. Springer, Berlin 1972.
  • Hereditary palmoplantar keratoses. In: The dermatologist. Vol. 28, pp. 395-403 (1977).

Humanities

  • Suicide and Upbringing: A Cultural Philosophy, Psychological, and Educational Study. F. Meiner, Leipzig 1939 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1936).
  • The young Otto Pankok: the master's early work. Droste, Düsseldorf 1977.
  • Mozart and the doctors, his illnesses and his death. In: Acta Mozartiana. Vol. 3 (1956), H. 3, pp. 4-6.
  • Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in personal testimonies and image documents (= Rowohlt's monographs. Vol. 77). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1962.
  • Paul Hindemith and Ladislav Černy. In: Hindemith yearbook. 8: 101-118 (1979).
  • Violins and other string instruments of the 18th century from Venice. Dausien, Hanau 1987.

literature

  • Werner Braun: Aloys Greither on his 65th birthday. In: The dermatologist. Vol. 29 (1978), p. 672 f.
  • Günter Stüttgen : In memoriam Aloys Greither (1914–1986). In: The dermatologist. Vol. 38 (1987), pp. 186 f.
  • Maik Irmisch: Aloys Greither: Dermatologist between Mozart, Hesse, Dix and Scharl. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-4909-3 .
  • Richard Kühl: Zugzwang: The Aloys Greither case. In: Ders .: Leading clinicians in Aachen and their role in the “Third Reich”. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2011, pp. 153-155 ( online ).

Web links

Wikiquote: Aloys Greither  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maik Irmisch: Aloys Greither: Dermatologist between Mozart, Hesse, Dix and Scharl. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-4909-3 , therein on p. 8 a copy of an excerpt from a handwritten biography; Year of birth 1913, not 1914.
  2. ↑ Maik Irmisch: Aloys Greither: Dermatologist between Mozart, Hesse, Dix and Scharl. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-4909-3 .
  3. ^ Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen clinicians and their role in the "Third Reich". Kassel University Press, Kassel 2011, p. 154 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Directory of people and lectures, winter semester 1977/78, University of Düsseldorf
  5. ^ Description of the Greither syndrome ( Peter Altmeyer ).
personal data
SURNAME Greither, Aloys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greither, Alois (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittelberg
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1986
Place of death Munich