Edgar Goldschmid

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Edgar Goldschmid (born December 14, 1881 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 26, 1957 in Lausanne ) was a German doctor and pathologist .

Life

Edgar Goldschmid, son of the banker and art collector Eduard Goldschmid, attended Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main. He began his medical studies in Freiburg im Breisgau , continued it in Kiel and then studied in Munich, where he was strongly influenced by Otto von Bollinger . In 1905 he was awarded a doctorate in Munich with a dissertation on tuberculosis in children med. PhD .

He worked in clinics in Munich and London, one year in Berlin and some time in Geneva before he went to Frankfurt am Main as a pathologist. From 1913 he worked at the Senckenberg Institute . After founding the University of Frankfurt , he worked there from 1914 as a private lecturer and from 1920 as an associate professor of pathology. From 1920 he published in the manual of normal and pathological physiology . His most important work is the history and bibliography of pathological-anatomical mapping , which was published by Hiersemann in Leipzig in 1925 .

Goldschmid emigrated to Switzerland and from 1933 was Professor of Medical History at the University of Lausanne . He had an extensive library; his house in Lausanne was decorated with paintings and other works of art from his father's collection.

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SURNAME Goldschmid, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1957
Place of death Lausanne