Bernhard Bendix

Bernhard Bendix (* 27. May 1863 in Großmühlingen , Anhalt , † 1943 in Cairo , Egypt ) born when Jacob Bernhard Bendix , was a German pediatrician and Secret Sanitätsrat or medical officer . He co-founded the world's first open-air school .

family

He was the third child of the businessman Sigmund Bendix (1831–1934) and his wife Therese, née Simon (1838–1869). He had two older sisters, Seraphine (* 1860) and Lina (* 1861) and three younger siblings, Rosa (* 1865), Moritz Fritz (* 1866) and Minna (* 1868). His mother died very early at the age of 30 when he was six. His father married his second wife Gudrun Rosalie, née Löwenstein, in 1870 and had three other children, Ludwig (* 1871), Jenny (* 1873) and Erna (* 1886).

School and study

Pupils of the forest school for sick children founded and run by Bernhard Bendix in Charlottenburg near Berlin during the distribution of food in Grunewald (1904)

After attending school in Großmühlingen, he attended the grammar school of the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg from 1874 to 1883 , where he received his school- leaving certificate . Following this, he studied from 1883 to 1888 medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin , at the Alma Mater Lipsiensis in Leipzig and at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg , where he in 1888 and his doctorate was.

Professional development

Between 1888 and 1894 he worked as an assistant doctor at the Internal and Orthopedic University Clinic in Berlin. From 1894 to 1899 he was at the Berlin Charité as senior physician and assistant to Otto Heubner . In 1901 he qualified as a private lecturer. In 1907 he was appointed associate professor at the Berlin Charité.

He wrote a large number of articles and contributions on pediatrics , such as the physiology and pathology of infancy . His pediatric textbook has been translated into several languages ​​and has become a standard work for medical students and specialists across Europe. It is still available today as a reprint.

Together with the Berlin school councilor Hermann Neufert (1858-1935), Bendix co-founded the forest school for sickly children in Charlottenburg near Berlin in 1904 , the world's first open-air school (see also: Forest school ), which Bendix also ran until 1933. The open-air schools were used to actively prevent tuberculosis .

In 1933, Bendix was removed from his position as head of the forest school due to his Jewish origins , and his teaching qualification was later revoked. He was forced to resign from the German Society for Pediatrics (DGfK) on August 17, 1933. He fled from Nazi persecution to Egypt around 1937, where he also died.

Works (excerpt)

• Multiple purulent joint inflammation after Diphtheria faucium . Inaugural dissertation, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, 1888.
• On the utilization and usability of chocolate fats in children. In: Therap. Mh. 7 (1895), pp. 345-355.
• Infant feeding . S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin 1900.
• The Charlottenburg Infant Welfare Centers . Berlin 1906.
• The Charlottenburg Forest School . Berlin 1906.
• Pediatric textbook for doctors and students . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1910. (Reprint Hansebooks, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3743471849 ).
• Childhood tuberculosis . Berlin 1911.

Memberships (excerpt)

• Association for internal medicine
• Association for Pediatrics
• German Society for Pediatrics
• German Society for Infant Protection

literature

• Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Volz: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft, The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . Vol. 1 (A-K). German business publisher, Berlin 1930.
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. med. Jakob Bernhard Bendix ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at: synagoge-eisleben.de, accessed on May 14, 2016. 
3. ↑ Bendig, Bernhard, Prof. Dr. med. , at: uni-magdeburg.de, accessed on November 25, 2017.
4. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 1 Aachen - Braniss. De Gruyter, Berlin 2005. ISBN 978-3110946574 . P. 521.
5. ↑ Photo: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bendix , at: akg-images.fr, accessed May 14, 2016.
6. ↑ Bendix, Bernhard: Руководство по дѣтскимъ болѣзнямъ для врачей и студентовъ , from: hathitrust.org, accessed on May 14, 2016.
7. ↑ Spicy forest air . In: Der Tagesspiegel, July 29, 2014, at: tagesspiegel.de, accessed on May 14, 2016.
8. ^ Eduard Seidler: Jewish paediatricians 1933-1945: Disenfranchised - Fled - Murdered . Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, Basel 2007. ISBN 978-3805582841 . P. 135.