Camillo Wiethe

Camillo Wiethe (born May 24, 1889 in Vienna ; † July 10, 1949 there ) was an Austrian ear, nose and throat doctor .

Life

Camillo Wiethe came from a family of doctors in Vienna. He attended the Schottengymnasium and studied medicine at the University of Vienna , which he graduated with a doctorate in 1913 .

Urbach-Wiethe syndrome on a biopsy with HE staining

During the First World War he served as a doctor at the front and was seriously wounded. Wiethe worked as an assistant doctor from 1918 and as an assistant at the Vienna Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic from 1926. He has published numerous medical articles. Together with Erich Urban , he first described the hereditary disease Urbach-Wiethe syndrome in 1929 . Wiethe specialized in diseases of the larynx and treated singers of the Vienna State Opera and members of the Vienna Boys' Choir . His prominent patients included Marta Eggerth , Maria Jeritza , Jan Kiepura and Leo Slezak . He completed his habilitation in 1933 at the University of Vienna. From 1936 to 1938 he was the head of the ear, nose and throat department of the hospital of the Viennese merchants.

After Austria was " annexed " to Nazi Germany in 1938, Camillo Wiethe refused to divorce his wife Eugenie, who was considered Jewish under the Nuremberg Laws . As a result, he had to resign his teaching license and was expelled from the University of Vienna in 1940. During the Nazi era, he was only able to continue his unpaid teaching activity at the State Academy for Music and Performing Arts , where he taught physiology and psychology of the vocal apparatus as a minor. Until the end of the Second World War , he limited himself to work in his private practice on Reichsratsstrasse .

The Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna appointed Wiethe as an associate professor in 1945 after the liberation from National Socialism . As such, he took over the management of the II. University Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine at the University of Vienna in 1946. He worked successfully as a pioneer of ultrasound therapy for ear diseases, including those caused by the war.

Camillo Wiethe died of stomach cancer in his hometown in 1949 shortly after a lecture tour to the United States . He was buried in the Grinzing cemetery . Wiethestrasse in Vienna- Essling was named after him in 1955 .

Web links

• Katharina Kniefacz, Herbert Posch: Camillo Wiethe. In: Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938. University of Vienna, December 15, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Wiethe died. In:  Das kleine Volksblatt , July 12, 1949, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Katharina Kniefacz, Herbert Posch: Camillo Wiethe. In: Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938. University of Vienna, December 15, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2020 . 
3. ^ Leopold doctor (ed.): Third Austrian Medical Conference Salzburg. September 5 to 7, 1949. Conference report . Springer, Vienna 1950, p. 1-2 .
4. ↑ Susanne Blume Berger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Manual Austrian authors of Jewish origin. 18th to 20th century . tape 1 : A – IKG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 1479 .
5. ↑ Urbach-Wiethe disease. In: Whonamedit? Retrieved February 25, 2020 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Professor Dr. Camillo Wiethe died. In:  Weltpresse , July 11, 1949, p. 16 (online at ANNO ).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Professor Wiethe succumbed to cancer. In:  Neues Österreich , July 12, 1949, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
8. ↑ Camillo Wiethe in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at, accessed on February 25, 2020.
9. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Wiethestraße. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 652 ( digitized version ).