Arthur Jores

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Arthur Theodor Jores (born February 10, 1901 in Bonn , † September 12, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German physician and co-founder of scientific psychosomatics .

Life

Jores was the second of three sons of the later professor of pathology Leonhard Jores and his wife Jenny Jores, nee. Christian, born in Bonn. He was a great-grandson of the medicine professor Theodor von Bischoff and great-great-grandson of the physiology professor Friedrich Tiedemann . After graduating from high school in Kiel in 1920, Jores studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Kiel . In 1925 he obtained his doctorate in Kiel on the subject of the behavior of the capillaries of the heart in systole and diastole . He completed his practical year at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital . In 1927 he was a volunteer assistant at the pathological institute of the General Hospital Barmbeck . He then worked for a few months as a ship doctor on a trip to East Asia. From 1928 he was an assistant doctor , from 1931 a secondary doctor at the municipal hospital in Altona . There he worked under Leopold Lichtwitz , who became a role model for him in terms of clinical research and dealing with patients. He conducted research in Altona on the topics of chronobiology and endocrinology . He then went to Rostock University as an assistant doctor in 1932 , until he received his habilitation there in 1933 on the subject of melanophore hormones and their occurrence in human blood plasma for internal medicine and taught as a private lecturer.

Jores lived until 1936 with his wife, an assistant doctor whom he met during his studies and married in Hamburg, and their two sons in Rostock. Because of his close ties to the Catholic Church, he made no secret of his anti-fascist attitude and, because he had been denounced, had to leave the civil service in 1936 and his Venia Legendi was revoked. The reason for the denunciation was Jores' letter to Lichtwitz, who had to emigrate to the USA because of his Jewish descent. Jores then worked in Hamburg's industry as a pharmacologist and dealt intensively with endocrinology by biologically evaluating hormone preparations. In 1939 his first textbook, Clinical Endocrinology, was published . After the outbreak of the Second World War he worked in northern German and Danish hospitals . He was again denounced in 1943 for alleged pacifist statements and taken into custody for six months on charges of undermining the military, but acquitted in 1944. As a result of this period of imprisonment and the trial, among other things, Jores developed a deep religiosity, which was also expressed in his writings. He and his wife converted from Protestantism to Catholicism. However, his religious attitudes had no influence on Jores' scientific research.

In 1945 Jores became an adjunct professor in Hamburg , in 1946 a full professor of the second medical university clinic in Eppendorf and in 1950 rector of the University of Hamburg . The experience of the war and the post-war period directed his interest to the previously taboo interactions between mental suffering and physical illness. He completed a psychosomatic training and, in addition to his work in the university clinic, headed a department with 40 beds with a psychosomatic focus. His preoccupation with psychoanalysis had made him realize that it would fall short in the case of the physically ill. He developed a talk therapy based on the symptoms of gastric ulcer or bronchial asthma . His credo was that the sick must heal themselves. In 1955 he published the book Man and His Disease , which was followed by other publications on the subject of psychosomatics. At the end of the 1950s, his investigation into the untimely death of Hamburg officials after their retirement gained public attention. In 1963 Jores was one of the founding members of the Teilhard de Chardin Society , which campaigns for the dissemination of Teilhard de Chardin 's work. In 1968 he retired, which did not prevent him from doing research in group therapy.

Books (selection)

  • The behavior of the capillaries of the heart in systole and diastole. Dissertation, University of Kiel 1927.
  • About the melanophore hormone and its occurrence in human blood plasma. Habilitation, University of Rostock 1933.
  • Clinical endocrinology. J. Springer, Berlin 1939.
  • Man and his illness. Klett, Stuttgart 1956.
  • Medicine in the crisis of our time. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart 1961.
  • From sick people. Thieme, Stuttgart 1960.
  • Being human as a mission. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart 1964.
  • Practical Psychosomatics. Huber, Bern / Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-456-80314-1 .

literature

  • Ludwig J. Pongratz (Ed.): Arthur Jores. In: Psychotherapy in self-portrayals. Hans Huber Verlag, Bern 1973, ISBN 3-456-30584-2 , pp. 228-258.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Danzer: Who are we? - In search of the human formula. Anthropology for the 21st Century - Physicians, Philosophers and Their Theories, Ideas and Concepts. Springer, Berlin 2011, p. 422.
  2. ↑ a b c Entry of "Arthur Jores" in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium cpr.uni-rostock.de, accessed on November 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Gerhard Danzer: Who are we? - In search of the human formula. Anthropology for the 21st Century - Physicians, Philosophers and Their Theories, Ideas and Concepts. Springer, Berlin 2011, p. 423.
  4. ↑ On the meaning of illness. Switching medicine from patient to human - theses from the Hamburg rectorate speech by Arthur Jores Die Zeit, No. 47, 23 November 1950, p. 4.
  5. ^ Gesellschaft Teilhard de Chardin gesellschaft-teilhard-de-chardin.de, accessed on November 20, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Jores, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jores, Arthur Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and co-founder of scientific psychosomatics
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1982
Place of death Hamburg