Carl Felix List

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Carl Felix List (born September 14, 1902 in Salbke , † December 12, 1968 in Grand Rapids ) was a German neurosurgeon.

Life

List studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He received his license to practice medicine in 1926. After graduation, he completed an internship at the Charité and the Rudolf Virchow Hospital . This was followed by graduate training in neurology , neuropathology and neurosurgery in Berlin and Breslau . In Berlin he worked in the nerve department of the Hufeland Hospital in 1931 , in Boston he worked at the Surgical Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at least in 1932 . He continued his education in Chicago . In 1933 he worked as an assistant surgeon at the Moabit City Hospital in Berlin. Due to his Jewish descent, he was released after the so-called seizure of power by the National Socialists in March 1933.

He emigrated to the USA via Brussels and from 1934 worked in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under Max Peet . He initially worked as a research teacher and later as a lecturer. In 1939 he was approved by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology . In 1941 he was approved as a neurosurgeon by the American Board of Neurological Surgery . He joined the American Neurological Association in 1942 . In 1967 he became a senior member of the company.

In July 1946, he went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and became a specialist in his field at Blodgett Memorial , Butterworth Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital .

List did research on basic neurological problems and worked in surgery. He was one of the pioneers of arteriography of the carotid artery and was a recognized authority in the field of developmental abnormalities of the occipital bone , Atlas and Axis .

He was married to Eva List and had a daughter and a son. List died unexpectedly on December 12, 1968.

Works

  • About the problem of hypertrophic cirrhosis of the liver based on two dissected cases. , 1926
  • On the therapy of neuralgia in Klinische Wochenschrift , Volume 10, Number 16, 1931, page 746
  • About a rare form of cerebral palsy, at the same time a contribution to the study of cerebral calcifications 132nd volume, volume 1, page 1 ff. In the journal for the entire neurology and psychiatry , 134th volume, December 1, 1931, page 616 ff .; ISSN  0303-4194
  • Contributions to the differential diagnosis and pathogenesis of the brain tumor-like vascular processes occurring in middle and older age. in magazine for the entire neurology and psychiatry, 134th volume, page 616 ff .; ISSN  0303-4194
  • Double-sided median neuritis in acromegaly in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde , 1932, page 279 ff.
  • The differential diagnosis of cerebellar bridge angle diseases with special consideration of the tumors in the journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry, 144th volume, December 1933, page 54 ff .; ISSN  0303-4194

literature

  • Russell N. DeJong: Carl Felix List 1902-1968. In: Transactions of the American Neurological Association . Volume 95, 1970, p. 339 (English).
  • Horace Willard Davenport: University of Michigan Surgeons, 1850-1970: Who They Were and what They Did. UM Libraries, 1993, pp. 137 ff. (English).
  • Ulrike Eisenberg: Carl Felix List (1902–1968). In: Ulrike Eisenberg, Hartmut Collmann , Daniel Dubinski: betrayed - expelled - forgotten. The work and fate of German brain surgeons persecuted after 1933. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95565-142-8 , pp. 313–346.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the Charité on Carl Felix List as a persecuted doctor
personal data
SURNAME List, Carl Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Ointment
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1968
Place of death Grand Rapids, Michigan