Artur Knick

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Art (h) ur Adolf Alfred Knick (born November 29, 1883 in Breslau , † March 22, 1944 in Leipzig ) was a German physician.

Arthur Knick grave in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig

Life

The son of an official had attended holy spirit school and high school in his hometown. He graduated from 1902 with a degree in medicine at the University of Breslau , which he graduated in 1907 with very good results. He then worked as a physician in the internal medicine department of Allerheiligenhospitals and was established in 1908 with the work over the histology of secondary degeneration in the spinal cord (Breslau 1908) to Dr. med. PhD.

Knick became an assistant doctor at the University Ear Clinic in Leipzig in 1909 and his habilitation took place in 1912 with the subject of pathological histology of the ear labyrinth after cutting through the acoustic nerve (Leipzig 1912) at the University of Leipzig . He then became a private lecturer in ear, nose and throat diseases. Knick soon rose to senior physician at the Leipzig University Clinic. From 1914 he completed his military service in the medical service during the First World War and returned to Leipzig in 1919, where he became an associate professor for ear, nose and throat diseases at the Medical Faculty of the Leipzig University.

After he had set up a private specialist outpatient clinic, the "Knicksche Klinik" at Emilienstraße 14, in 1925, which served the university as a teaching institute, in 1937 he was appointed personal professor. Knick also took part in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University. He was provisional dean of the medical faculty from 1935 to 1937 and was rector of the Leipzig alma mater from 1937 to 1940 . Knick let himself be dismissed from his rectorate post in 1940 to support the German military units on the Eastern Front as a field doctor . He suffered heart disease at the Battle of Stalingrad . When he returned to Leipzig, he took care of the injured in a reserve hospital near Leipzig, where he suffered another heart attack, which resulted in his death.

Act

Knicks main work is ear, nose, throat and larynx diseases. (Leipzig 1921). As a textbook, it became the standard work for generations of physicians and, after his death, saw 36 new editions, which were also translated into Spanish, Russian and Turkish.

As a member of the Pan-German Association , which he had become in 1916, he felt the Versailles peace treaty as a disregard for the German people. So he was involved from 1919 to 1923 in the German National People's Party , was since 1925 member of the German Nationalists Freedom Party , since 1929 a member of the Freedom Federal , entered 1931 in the Nazi Party and in 1933 became a member of the SA . He also performed various National Socialist functions, including a. as the Gaudozentenbundführer of Saxony. Nevertheless, there are indications that he was disappointed with the political developments during the Nazi dictatorship. During his tenure as rector of Leipzig University, he also won non-party researchers for Leipzig, including Hans-Georg Gadamer .

family

The son Bernhard Knick (born September 19, 1921 in Leipzig; † July 11, 2012 in Tutzing), who emerged from his marriage to Maria (née Kaiser) in 1910, was a metabolism expert and adjunct professor at the University of Mainz .

Other works

  • Diagnostic-therapeutic vademecum for students and doctors. Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1934
  • The importance of the University of Leipzig in the past. Leipzig 1939

literature

  • Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, 2nd edition, Vol. 1, p. 779,
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 92-93.
  • Helmut Heiber , University under the swastika, Part II: The capitulation of the high schools , Vol. 2, Munich 1994, pp. 115–119
  • Johannes Zange: Arthur Knick zum Gedächtnis, in: Archive for Ear, Nose and Larynx Medicine 154 (1944), pp. 195–197. ( doi: 10.1007 / BF01970225 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holger Steinberg: Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig: A two hundred year tradition. In: Würzburger medical history reports 23, 2004, pp. 270–312; here: p. 298.
  2. ↑ Helmut Heiber, University under the swastika, Part II: The capitulation of the high schools, Vol. 2, Munich 1994, p. 117
  3. ↑ Who is who? 27th Edition (1988), p. 714.
  4. ↑ Hellmut Mehnert : The German Diabetology mourns one of its most prominent members. In: DDG information. Vol. 4 (2012), no. 5 (October 2012), p. 131 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Knick, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knick, Arthur; Knick, Artur Adolf Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1944
Place of death Leipzig