Artur Georg Blachstein

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Artur Georg Israel Blachstein (born March 2, 1863 in Dresden , † March 10, 1940 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor and stenographer .

Life

Blachstein attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden and then studied at Cornell University in the USA, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . After studying medicine in Leipzig , Munich , Berlin and Göttingen , he passed the state examination in Leipzig and received his doctorate . He then worked as a doctor for the Leipzig physiologist Carl Ludwig on blood gases and for Louis Pasteur in Paris . He also took part in the Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885/86 as a doctor for the German Red Cross . After the conflict ended, Blachstein moved to Russia and worked at the Imperial Institute for Experimental Medicine in Saint Petersburg . In 1891 he was the head of a scientific cholera expedition to Baku on behalf of the Russian government .

Around 1900 Blachstein returned to Germany and devoted himself to legal, linguistic and Slavic studies in Leipzig . He also dealt with shorthand and the transfer of the German stenographic system by Franz Xaver Gabelsberger and the English system by Sir Isaac Pitman to the Slavic languages. From 1908 he was head of the shorthand editing department at Leipzig University. From 1911 he published the German Yearbook for Stenography, Writing and Anagrammatics together with K. Mahler and Rudolf Weinmeister. There were also a number of specialist books and articles on linguistic topics.

After the First World War , he made himself known again as a doctor in Leipzig by healing hopeless cases of gastrointestinal diseases in children with chrysoid solutions .

Works (selection)

  • On the system of shortening sentences , in: Deutsche Stenographen-Zeitung, No. 18 (1903)
  • Logical abbreviation and linguistic abbreviation , in: Deutsche Stenographen-Zeitung, No. 14 (1905)
  • About sentence abbreviation and polyphony . Studies on comparative sentence shortening theory, in: Correction sheet of the stenographic. State Office Dresden, 1906
  • The doctrine of the metagram and its application to some Indo-Sumerian legal antiquities , in: Archiv für Stenographie, 1907, p. 193 ff.
  • About anagram and rune, especially in the Lex Salica and Shakespeare , in: German Yearbook for Stenography, Writing and Anagrammatics. Vol. 1, (1911), p. 48 ff.

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SURNAME Blachstein, Artur Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blachstein, Georg Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and stenographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1940
Place of death Leipzig