Béla Schick

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Béla Schick (born July 16, 1877 in Boglár on Lake Balaton / Hungary ; † December 6, 1967 ) was a Hungarian pediatrician and is considered a co-founder of modern allergology and immunology .

Life

Schick grew up as the son of a businessman in Graz , Austria , in a Jewish family and studied medicine at the University of Vienna . In Graz, where Béla Schick worked first at the psychiatric clinic, then the medical clinic and then at the children's clinic under Theodor Escherich , Schick received his doctorate on May 5, 1900, as a "doctor of general medicine". When Escherich went to Vienna, he was followed by his students Schick, who started working at the Vienna Children's Clinic in August 1902, and Clemens von Pirquet . Together with Pirquet, whose colleague Schick then became, he first described serum sickness in 1905 . In their classic monograph "The Serum Sickness" they also dealt intensively with the "time factor" (incubation time) that lies between the first injection of an antiserum and the occurrence of the serum sickness. During this time, Schick also developed the so-called Schick test , a skin test for the detection of antitoxic antibodies against bacterial toxins in diphtheria .

After he had emigrated to the United States, Schick worked in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City from 1923 , married the New York lawyer Catherine Fries in 1925 and became a professor at Columbia University in 1936 . From 1950 to 1962 he was employed in pediatrics at Beth-El Hospital in Brooklyn . In 1954 he received the John Howland Award from the American Pediatric Society .

Publications

  • together with Clemens von Pirquet : On the theory of the incubation period. W. Braumüller, Vienna, Leipzig, 1903
  • together with Clemens von Pirquet: The Serum Sickness. Deuticke, Leipzig, 1905
  • together with Theodor Escherich : Scharlach. Holder, Vienna, 1912
  • The diphtheria toxin skin reaction in humans as a preliminary sample of the prophylactic diphtheria healing serum injection. Munich, 1913
  • Newborn nutrition studies. in: Pirquet, Clemens Frhr. from: system of nutrition. T. 2, pp. 148-260, J. Springer, Berlin, 1919
  • The Pirquetsche system of nutrition presented to doctors and educated laypeople. J. Springer, Berlin, 1919
  • together with William Rosenson: The care of your child from infancy to six. in: Dell Books 25 cent series, 340., Dell, New York, 1949

Sources and literature

  • Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 33 (1964-1965), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 1768.
  • Frank Krogmann: Béla Schick (1877–1967) and his discovery: "The menotoxin ". In: Würzburger medical historical reports 17, 1998, pp. 21–30.
  • Georg Silló-Seidl: Austrians in the service of modern medicine. Vienna / Munich / Bern 1990, p. 112, 115 f. and 118.

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personal data
SURNAME Nice, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Balatonboglár , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1967
Place of death United States