Bruno Oskar Pribram

Bruno Oskar Pribram (also Přibram ; born June 11, 1887 in Prague , † 1940 in Chicago ) was an Austrian surgeon . He was a member of the Pribram medical family .

Life

Bruno Oskar was born to Richard Pribram . After studying chemistry at the University of Vienna , which he completed with a doctorate in 1909 , he studied medicine at the universities of Vienna and Berlin , which he completed in 1913 with a second doctorate. After the First World War, in which he was employed as a surgeon, he was an assistant at the Surgical Clinic of the Charité in Berlin from 1918 to 1924 and completed his habilitation there in 1921. In 1925 he was appointed associate professor at the Charité, and in 1926 he became appointed head of the surgical department of the St. Hildegard Hospital in Berlin. His teaching permit was withdrawn in 1933 because of his Jewish faith, which is why he emigrated to England in 1938. He was the discoverer of novoprotin .

Works

• Advances in the knowledge of the pathology and surgical treatment of gallstone disease. Fischer, Jena 1930

literature

• Katharina Kniefacz: Bruno Karl Oskar Przibram (Pribram). In: University of Vienna (Ed.): Memorial book for the victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938. Last updated on January 28, 2015 ( online , accessed on August 3, 2015).
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 8 (2007), p. 77 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae. Vol. 1, Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1995, p. 170.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruno Oskar Pribram in the catalog of the German National Library