Carly Seyfarth

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Paul Carly Seyfarth (born January 14, 1890 in Leipzig , † October 27, 1950 in Leipzig) was a German folklorist and physician .

Life

Carly Seyfarth graduated from high school in 1909. He then studied medicine , anthropology , ethnography and prehistory at the University of Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Cheruscia country team in 1909 . In 1913 he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig with the dissertation Superstition and Magic in Folk Medicine in West Saxony. A contribution to the folklore of the Kingdom of Saxony in Folklore for Dr. phil. and in 1916 with the dissertation The dermoids and teratomas of the ovaries in childhood in medicine for Dr. med. He also completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1920 with his thesisNew contributions to the knowledge of the islets of Langerhans in the human pancreas and their relationship to diabetes mellitus for General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy.

As part of a humanitarian Red Cross expedition to fight infectious diseases in Russia, he was director of the German Alexander Hospital in St. Petersburg from 1922/1923 . By combining medical and ethnological knowledge, he was able to research infectious and tropical diseases. He went on study trips to study leishmaniasis in the Balkans and Turkey. He examined the hygiene of leprosy and malaria sufferers on study trips to East Africa. Seyfarth developed a method of bone marrow removal, which introduced modern bone marrow diagnostics, and in 1923 he carried out the first trepanation of the sternal marrow ( bone marrow of the sternum) as part of the malaria diagnostics .

At the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig he became a private lecturer in 1919 and associate professor for general pathology and pathological anatomy in 1922. He held this office until 1950.

On November 1, 1929, Carly Seyfarth succeeded Oskar Wandels as Medical Director of the St. Georg Municipal Hospital in Leipzig. There he made the X-ray Institute and the Infection Clinic independent. He also created a central laboratory in the St. Georg Hospital and in 1948 set up a polyclinic with several specialist departments.

During the Second World War , as head of a reserve hospital set up in the hospital, he saved numerous Russian and Polish prisoners of war from being deported to concentration camps .

Carly Seyfarth on the tombstone of the Strümpell family in Leipzig's southern cemetery

Carly Seyfarth was married to Elsbeth Strümpell, the daughter of the famous doctor Adolf von Strümpell . In 1950 Seyfarth succumbed to a tumor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Textbook of special pathology and therapy of internal diseases. For students and doctors. Vogel, Leipzig 1922 (collaboration on volumes 1 and 2 of the textbook by Adolf Strümpell )
  • The "doctors etiquette". About dealing with the sick and about the duties, art and service of hospital doctors. Georg Thieme, Leipzig 1935
  • 725 years of St. Georg Hospital in Leipzig. Reprint from: Leipziger Beobachter. No. 10-12 / 1938
  • The St. Georg Hospital in Leipzig for eight centuries, 1212–1940. Volume 1. The Hospital zu St. Georg from 1212 to 1631. (Volumes 2 and 3 not published), Georg Thieme, Leipzig 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 76.
  2. ^ Ingrid Kästner, Natalja Decker: The Leipzig doctor Paul Carly Seyfarth (1890-1950) and the Red Cross expedition to Russia in the 20s. In: NTM Journal for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 1997, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 43–54
  3. ^ Ingrid Kästner: The Leipzig doctor Paul Carly Seyfarth (1890–1950) as rescuer of Soviet prisoners of war in World War II. In: Erhard Hexelschneider, Alita Liebrecht: Leipzig and Russia. Highlights from the past and the present. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony, Leipzig 2007, pp. 73–76

literature

  • Rolf Haupt, Karsten Güldner (Ed.): 800 years of St. Georg in Leipzig. From the hospital of the Canons' Monastery of St. Thomas to the medical and social center. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-563-5 , p. 265 f.
  • R. Jürgens: Obituary for Carly Seyfarth. In: Acta haematologica, 1951, no. 5, p. 254 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Seyfarth, Carly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seyfarth, Paul Carly (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1950
Place of death Leipzig