Carl Bruck

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Carl Bruck (born February 28, 1879 in Glatz , Silesia ; † June 12, 1944 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor and dermatologist .

Life

Carl Bruck grew up in Dresden , studied medicine in Munich and received his doctorate there in 1902. He then moved to the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin, headed by Robert Koch , where he researched syphilis . In 1909 he completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau , was appointed professor in 1911 and moved to the Dermatological Clinic of the Altona Hospital in 1914 .

Together with August von Wassermann and Albert Neisser, Carl Bruck developed a serological test for syphilis pathogens, the so-called Wassermann reaction . He was also involved in research into tuberculosis .

As a result of the National Socialist race laws, he was forced to give up his job in 1935. In order to avoid the anti-Semitic persecution and the imminent deportation by the National Socialists to the concentration camp, he and his wife committed suicide.

Publications

  • About the successes with the one-time combined Salvarsan sublimate treatment of syphilis according to Linser. In: Münchner medical Wochenschrift. Volume 67, 1920, pp. 423-424.

literature

  • Ludwik Fleck : Origin and Development of a Scientific Fact. Introduction to the teaching of thinking style and thinking collective. 1935. Edited with an introduction by Lothar Schäfer and Thomas Schnelle. 4th edition: Frankfurt am Main 1999.
  • Ilana Löwy: Testing for a sexually transmissible disease, 1907-1970: The history of the Wassermann reaction. In: Virginia Berridge, Philip Strong (Eds.): AIDS and contemporary history. University Press, Cambridge 1993, pp. 74-92.
  • Lutz Sauerteig: Illness, Sexuality, Society. Venereal diseases and health policy in Germany in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Stuttgart 1999.
  • August von Wassermann , Albert Neisser , Carl Bruck: A serodiagnostic reaction in syphilis. In: German Medical Weekly. 48, 1906, pp. 745-746.
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

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personal data
SURNAME Bruck, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Glatz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1944
Place of death Hamburg