Berthold P. Wiesner

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Berthold Paul Wiesner (* 1901 in Marchegg , Gänserndorf, Lower Austria; † January 7, 1972 ) was an Austrian- Jewish biologist, physiologist and sex researcher. As a sperm donor for a clinic that performed artificial insemination , he may be the man with the largest number of children in the world.

Live and act

Wiesner was briefly married to Anna Gmeyner , with whom he had his only legitimate daughter Eva Ibbotson . Wiesner, who worked for some time at the Animal Breeding Research Department at the University of Edinburgh , is considered a pioneering researcher in the diagnosis of pregnancy . Between 1940 and 1960, Wiesner's partner Mary Barton ran a fertility clinic in Harley Street in London , where married women and infertile men received donor sperm. Since Wiesner is said to have donated most of the semen for the fertility clinic himself, rough estimates suggest that he will have around 600 further biological offspring. Documentary filmmaker Barry Stevens is one of his descendants .

In 1929 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Works

  • Eugen Steinach, H. Heinlein, BP Wiesner, triggering the sexual cycle, development of sexual characteristics, reactivating effect on the senile female organism through ovary and placenta extracts , in: Pflügers Archive , 1925
  • Berthold Paul Wiesner, The Problem of Rejuvenation , Ullstein 1927
  • BP Wiesner and L. Mirskaia, On the Endocrine Basis of Mating in the Mouse , University of Edinburgh 1930 (PDF; 835 kB)
  • BP Wiesner, Sex , London 1936
  • Mary Barton, Kenneth Walker and BP Wiesner, Artificial Insemination , in: British Medical Journal 1, 1945, pp. 40-43
  • BP Wiesner, Biological Dangers from Atomic Fission , in: The Lancet , Volume 247, Issue 6384, p. 33, January 5, 1946
  • Cedric Lane-Roberts, Albert Sharman, Kenneth Walker, BP Wiesner and Mary Barton, Sterility and Impaired Fertility: Pathogenesis, Investigation and Treatment , Paul B. Hoeber 1948

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Library of Australia
  2. ↑ Mark H. Gelber , Jakob Hessing, Robert Jütte (eds.): Integration and exclusion: studies on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the early modern period to the present; Festschrift for Hans Otto Horch on his 65th birthday . Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-62006-3 , p. 474 (552 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Birth announcement of the daughter  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 116 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  4. ^ Angus McLaren: Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-56069-4 , pp. 101 f. u. 210 (English, 235 pp., Limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ According to Documentary Reviews , she had a daughter named Wendy, of whom it is unclear whether she is descended from Wiesner.
  6. ^ Article in the Daily Mail
  7. ↑ Christine Kensche: Active sperm donor: A father and 600 children - brothers are looking for "Bio-Dad". In: welt.de . April 10, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  8. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiesner, Berthold P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiesner, Bertold Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Marchegg
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1972