Enoch Heinrich Kisch

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Enoch Heinrich Kisch

Enoch Heinrich Kisch (born May 6, 1841 in Prague , died August 24, 1918 in Marienbad ) was an Austrian balneologist and gynecologist .

family

Enoch Heinrich Kisch came from a Bohemian family of Jewish faith that produced many doctors, pharmacists and rabbis. One of his ancestors, Abraham Kisch, was the first in Halle to become a Dr. med. Doctorate in the Jewish faith from Bohemia . His brother was the rabbi and theologian Alexander Kisch (1848–1917). His nephews included the lawyer Guido Kisch (1889–1985) and the cardiologist Bruno Kisch (1890–1966), the journalist and writer Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948), known as a “mad reporter”, was a second nephew.

life and work

Kisch made his Matura at the age of 15 at the Piarist High School in Prague and studied medicine at the Prague University until 1862 . In addition to his studies, he worked as a journalist and became the first stenographer of the revived Bohemian Landtag . After receiving his doctorate in 1863, his professor Josef von Löschner gave him a job as a well doctor in Marienbad (Czech: Mariánské Lázně), where he contributed to the development of the spa into a well-known spa and medicinal bath and was mainly visited by foreign spa guests. From 1867 he was a private lecturer and from 1884 professor of balneology at the University of Prague. From 1904 to 1912 he was a permanent adjunct professor. At the University of Prague, he mainly devoted himself to physiological research on the modernization of balneology and investigated, for example, the connection between drinking cure and diet as well as the causes of obesity . He was a councilor and honorary citizen of Marienbad.

From 1868 Kisch was editor of the Allgemeine Balneologische Zeitung and the yearbooks for balneology, hydrology and cliniatology , he also wrote on balnaeotherapeutic topics for the encyclopedia System of Physiologic Therapeutics , which was published in Philadelphia , as well as other medical abstracts for various newspapers. In addition to balneology, he worked on gynecology and marital hygiene and wrote several articles on the topic, including above all works such as The Sexual Life of Women in a Physiological, Pathological and Hygienic Relationship or The Sexual Infidelity of Women , the latter being titled as a socio-medical study. In this he writes as an introduction:

“Nevertheless, our women's rights activists are caught in a big mistake when they derive the right of sexual breach of faith for women from the man’s unfaithfulness. The roles of the two spouses in sexual acts are too different for that. In marriage the man can make infidelities without the consequences of the same having to be profoundly far-reaching; he can repent at any moment without the harm that has been caused cannot be repaired. The woman's infidelity forever poisons her soul, shakes the basis of harmony between mother and children, and calls into question the legitimacy of the latter and brings an incurable rift in family life. "

- Enoch Heinrich Kisch: The sexual infidelity of women. 1917

Publications

  • Marienbad, its surroundings and its remedies , 1868, 11th edition. 1883
  • Obesity of Women , 1872
  • On the influence of obesity on the female sexual organs , Prague 1873
  • The climacteric age of women and the treatments for menopausal ailments , Erlangen 1874 ( digitized version )
  • Balneotherapy for chronic diseases. A handbook for practicing physicians, 2 Dept., 1866–67, 2nd edition: Handbook of general and special balneotherapy , 1875 ( digitized version )
  • The medicinal springs and health resorts of Bohemia , 1879
  • The sterility of women , 1886 ( digitized version )
  • The Lipomatosis Universalis , 1888
  • Outline of clinical balneotherapy including hydrotherapy and climatotherapy , 1883, 2nd edition: Balneotherapeutisches Lexikon , 1897
  • Floor plan of the clinical balneotherapy , 1897
  • Uterus and Heart , 1898
  • The sexual life of women in a physiological, pathological and hygienic relationship ( digitized version )
  • Woman's sexual infidelity. Part One : The Adulteress. A social medicine study, 1913 ( digitized version )
  • Experienced and strived for. Memories , 1914 (autobiography)
  • Woman's sexual infidelity. Second part: The filthy woman. A social medicine study, 1917 ( digitized version )
  • The Fachinger mineral water, its rating as medicinal and table water. 1925

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Enoch Heinrich Kisch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kisch, Enoch Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 349.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schaper and Jutta Schaper: Bruno Kisch, life and work. An attempt ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (memory lecture on the occasion of the 61st annual conference of the German Society for Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research in Mannheim in April 1995).
  3. ^ Wilhelm Güde: Dr. Jur. Mizzi Kisch. A memory . In: Uwe Blaurock (Hrsg.), Joachim Bornkamm (Hrsg.), Christian Kirchberg (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Achim Krämer on his 70th birthday on September 19, 2009 . Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89949-659-8 , p. 620 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b " Enoch Heinrich Kisch " in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906; accessed on October 13, 2016
  5. ↑ Enoch Heinrich Kisch: The sexual infidelity of women. Second part: The filthy woman. A social medicine study, 1917 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Kisch, Enoch Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian balneologist and gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1918
Place of death Marienbad