Emil Meirowsky

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Emil Meirowsky (born March 9, 1876 in Guttstadt , † January 22, 1960 in Nashville ) was a German dermatologist .

Life

Meirowsky studied at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg , where he received his doctorate in 1901 . He spent his hospital service and assistant time at the Berlin Polyclinic with Oscar Werler , in Breslau with Albert Neisser , with Paul Gerson Unna and in Paris. The family lived in Cologne-Lindenthal from 1908 . He opened a practice with its own laboratory. In 1919 he received the title of professor . In 1920 he was at the University of Cologne habilitation who appointed him a year later to associate professor. He was chairman of the Cologne Medical Association and a member of the German Democratic Party . On November 24, 1933, his license to teach at the University of Cologne was revoked, his academic title revoked in February 1936, and in 1938 he was forced to give up his practice. In 1939 he emigrated to England with his wife Clara and their 29-year-old son Arnold . From 1942 he worked at the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guilford . In 1946 he received an offer to resume teaching at Cologne University. After the Meirowsky couple found out after the war that their daughter Lisamaria had not survived the Holocaust , the family decided never to return to Germany. On May 2, 1947, Emil Meirowsky emigrated to the United States with his wife and son . There he taught at Indiana University Medical School until 1953.

Meirowsky researched the origins of melanin . In 1906 he proved (in Unna's laboratory) that the epidermis can produce melanin. The Meirowsky phenomenon (1909), the tanning of the skin due to high temperatures, is named after him. He also researched the life cycle of the syphilis pathogen and the etiology of birthmarks and congenital malformations of the skin. Meirowsky also discovered the viral etiology of psoriasis .

Stumbling block for Emil Meirowsky in Cologne-Lindenthal

His daughter Lisamaria Meirowsky was also a doctor and was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau . His surviving son Arnold became a recognized neurosurgeon in the United States, another son, Werner Leopold (1907-1994), emigrated to England and took the name William Merrow . In England he worked as an actor after the Second World War. His daughter, Emil's granddaughter, is the actress Jane Merrow . Emil's brother was the entrepreneur and art collector Max Meirowsky .

In March 2015, in front of his last place of residence in Cologne-Lindenthal , Fürst-Pückler-Straße 42, a stumbling block was laid as part of the art and monument project of the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig .

Publications (selection)

  • About the origin of the melanotic pigment of the skin and eyes , Leipzig 1908
  • Sex life of youth, school and parental home , Leipzig 1913
  • Studies on the reproduction of bacteria, spirils and spirochetes , Berlin 1914
  • About the origin of so-called congenital malformations of the skin , Vienna & Leipzig 1919
  • Report of the salvarsan commission of the General Medical Association in Cologne. In: Munich medical weekly. Volume 67, 1920, pp. 477-480.
  • Animal drawing, human protection and the systematization of moles: a contribution to the comparative morphology of the skin , Berlin 1921 (with Leonhard Leven)
  • Skin diseases , Leipzig 1924/1930
  • Sexual diseases , Leipzig 192/1931

literature

  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . ed. from the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Christoph Löser, Gerd Plewig (Ed.): Pantheon of Dermatology: Outstanding historical personalities . Springer, Heidelberg 2008, p. 677 ff., ISBN 978-3-540-34090-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PWFM Hamans: Edith Stein and Companions: On the Way to Auschwitz . Ignatius Press, 2010, p. 182
  2. ^ Eduard Seidler: Jewish pediatricians: victims of persecution 1933–1945 . Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 2007, p. 311
  3. ↑ a b Eskind Biomedical Library: Emil Meirowsky Biographical File. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://janemerrow.com/history-repeating-itself/
personal data
SURNAME Meirowsky, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Guttstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1960
Place of death Nashville