Erich Leschke

Friedrich Wilhelm Erich Leschke (born October 23, 1887 in Bergneustadt , Rhine Province , † June 10, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German pathologist and internist .

Live and act

After attending grammar school in Mühlhausen (Thuringia), he studied philosophy and medicine in Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1911. med. PhD . Then worked as an assistant at the Physiological Institute, at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stift in Bonn, at the Eppendorfer Hospital in Hamburg and finally at the Charité in Berlin. During the First World War he was employed as a consultant internist at the III. Army corps deployed. In 1918 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine and in 1919 was appointed associate professor at the University of Berlin . He published numerous papers in the field of heart, lung and metabolic diseases. He has also been invited to give lectures in North and South America, England and Russia several times. He was the inventor of the pneumothorax apparatus . According to him that was Leschke syndrome (dystrophy pigmentosa) named.

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

• About the effect of the pancreatic extract on pancreatic diabetic and normal animals. Leipzig 1910 (dissertation).
• The mutual relations of the glands with internal secretion. Hall 1920.
• Metabolic diseases. Dresden 1930 (= Medical Practice XI).
• The epidemic polio. Munich 1931.
• Diseases of the autonomic nervous system. Leipzig 1932.
• The main poisonings. Advances in their detection and treatment. Munich 1932.
• Goethe as a life researcher. Leipzig 1932.
• Enfermedades del Metabolismo. Madrid 1932.
• The interactions of the blood glands. Leipzig 1933.
• Clinical Toxicology. London and Baltimore 1934 (with Franz Koelsch, Karl Meixner, CP Stewart, O. Dorre).

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 398.
• Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Berlin-Vienna 1933, p. 518 (volume 2).
• Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. Munich 1996 (Volume 2).
• German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Munich 2006, p. 379 (volume 6).