Carl Bruhns (medical doctor)

Carl Bruhns (born November 24, 1869 in Leipzig , † January 21, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German dermatologist .

Life

The son of the astronomer and meteorologist Karl Christian Bruhns completed a medical degree at the University of Leipzig and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . Then he worked from 1893 to 1895 as an assistant doctor at the Leipzig Medical Clinic under Heinrich Curschmann , from 1895 to 1896 at the Dermatological Clinic in Bern and from 1896 to 1903 at the Dermatological Clinic of the Charité in Berlin under Edmund Lesser .

In 1905 he took over the management of the municipal shelter. From 1908 he was medical director of the dermatological department of the Charlottenburg hospital. In 1900 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the lymphatic vessels of the female genitals and from then on taught as a private lecturer , in 1908 as adjunct professor and from 1922 as associate professor at the University of Berlin .

He was also a board member of the Berlin Dermatological Society. He has written numerous articles in manuals and magazines, especially in the field of syphilidology .

He was married to Margarete Georgi (1875–1934).

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts (selection)

• On the current state of syphilis therapy , Berlin 1898
• Hygiene of the barber shops (= Handbook of Hygiene Supplement-Vol. 2), Jena 1902
• Diagnostic-therapeutic lexicon for general practitioners , 3 vol., Berlin 1906–1908 (editor with Sigmund Adler)
• Manuale delle malattie della pelle e celtiche , Milano 1912 (co-editor)
• For the opening of the municipal advice center for venereal diseases in Charlottenburg. In: Zschr. Closed krkh. Volume 16, 1915/16, pp. 333-342
• Fischer's textbook on skin and venereal diseases. 6th edition. Jena 1921 (co-editor)
• General Mycology (= Handbook of Skin and Venereal Diseases Vol. 11), Berlin 1928 (with Arthur Alexander)
• Keratoses, ichthyosis, Darier's disease, atrophies, scleroderma, elephantiasis (= Handbook of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Vol. 8.2), Berlin 1931
• Outline of mycological diagnostics: an auxiliary book for the laboratory , Berlin 1932 (with Arthur Alexander)

literature

• Erhard Riecke: German Dermatologist Calendar , 1929, p. 523
• Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last 50 years . Vol. 1, 1932, p. 518
• Prof. Dr. Carl Bruhns † . In: Dermatologische Zeitschrift 69 (1934), p. 128
• Michael Grüttner , Sven Kinas: The Expulsion of Scientists from German Universities 1933–1945 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 55 (2007), no. 1, pp. 123-186 ("Carl Bruhns is sometimes referred to as a Jew in the literature")