Erich Püschel

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Erich Püschel (born October 9, 1904 in Röhlinghausen ; † June 24, 1991 in Bochum ) was a German professor of child and adolescent medicine and founder of the medical history collection at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

He studied medicine in Münster , Königsberg , Prague and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1931 he received his doctorate in medicine, and in 1941 his habilitation in Münster.

From 1951 to 1972 he worked at the regional women's clinic in Bochum, initially as the chief doctor of the infant clinic, and from 1960 he took on the duties of director of the children's clinic. In 1963, an infection house was built that expanded the previous 135 beds by 80 places, and a nurses' home with 106 places was completed. Püschel played a key role in the design of the Bochum Infant and Children's Clinic, later the Bochum Regional Children's Clinic (now the Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine of the Ruhr University Bochum in the St. Josef Hospital ), of which he was director until 1972.

From 1971 he also worked as an honorary professor at the University of Düsseldorf and from 1974 as a lecturer for the history of medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. He was also active in the ethnomedicine working group.

Medical history collection

Medical history topics interested Püschel since the 1940s. The medical objects from the 19th and 20th centuries in his collection, mainly obtained from dissolving practices, include large devices such as X-ray machines and development series of medical devices. In 1990 he handed over the collection, consisting of 10,000 items and 5,000 books, to the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, but continued to strive to expand it with the aim of building up a teaching collection for the students that could also be used for research purposes. Since 1990 the collection has been in the Malakow Tower of the former Julius-Philipp colliery, which was expanded for university purposes .

Honors

In 1982 he was elected an honorary member of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine because of his special services to pediatrics . He received an honorary doctorate from the Ruhr University in Bochum in 1984.

Publications (selection)

  • The “ethics circle” of medical students at the Ruhr University Bochum (= medical ethical materials. Issue 36, ZDB -ID 1107223-4 ). Center for Medical Ethics, Bochum 1989.
  • as editor with Hans-Martin Sass: The Hippocratic oath in medicine and other documents of the medical ethics circle (= medical ethical materials. Issue 15). Center for Medical Ethics, Bochum 1988.
  • Menstruation and its taboos. Ethnology and cultural significance. An ethnomedicine-historical overview. Schattauer, Stuttgart et al. 1988, ISBN 3-7945-1180-8 .
  • Studies on health care among the Vikings. In: Medical History Journal. Vol. 19, No. 4, 1984, ISSN  0025-8431 , pp. 312-334, digitized .
  • The sea emergency associations of the German Air Force and their medical service. 1939-1945. Tasks, achievements, problems (= series of publications on experiences of the German sanitary service in World War II. Vol. 1). Droste, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-7700-0497-3 .
  • 75 years of paediatrics in Rhineland and Westphalia. The history of the Association of Rheinisch-Westfälischer Paediatricians 1900–1975 (= Düsseldorf work on the history of medicine. Supplements. 4, ZDB -ID 503218-0 ). Triltsch, Düsseldorf 1975.
  • with Irmgard Müller: The "Sanitätskiste", Cista militaris or "Feldkast" by Wilhelm Fabry from Hilden (1560–1634). In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung. Vol. 113, 1973, ISSN  0011-9857 , pp. 147-149, pp. 171-176, pp. 339-342.
  • Old folk medicine items in the National Museum of Reykjavik, Iceland. In: Medical History Journal. Vol. 8, H. 2/3, 1973, pp. 236-243, digitized .
  • The help of German Caritas for displaced persons and refugees after the Second World War. (1945-1966). German Caritas Association V., Freiburg (Breisgau) 1972.
  • Deformities of limbs. Case studies and theories of origin. A medical historical consideration. Schattauer, Stuttgart et al. 1970.
  • Investigations into the spread of an epidemic disease in Westphalia. The English sweat of the year 1529. In: Westphalian research. Journal of the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History. Vol. 10, 1957, ISSN  0083-9027 , pp. 57-63.
  • Biology methodology. Materials on the methodology of teaching biology in the auxiliary school. 5 volumes. VEB Verlag Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1962–1967.
  • Past and present of the Upper Hessian textile industry. Giessen 1924 (PhD thesis).

literature

  • Stefan Schulz: Erich Püschel. In: Frank Sichau (Ed.): Collectors, Artists and Authors. Forays into cultural history through Wanne-Eickel and Herne (= Der Emscherbrücher. Vol. 12, 2003/04). Gesellschaft für Heimatkunde Wanne-Eickel eV, Herne 2003, ISBN 3-936452-08-3 , pp. 33–34.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Bochum: The history of the children's clinic from 1925 to the present day ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 15, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kinderklinik.klinikum-bochum.de
  2. ↑ a b c Stefan Schulz: Erich Püschel . In: Collectors, Artists and Authors - Forays through cultural history through Wanne-Eickel and Herne. P. 33.
  3. ↑ Deceased . Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin eV - AGEM (Hrsg.): Curare . Journal of Medical Ethnology, No. 33, 2010, p. 157.
  4. ^ Medical history collection in Bochum . Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 87, issue 40, October 4, 1990
  5. ^ Ruhr University Bochum: Medical History Collection of the RUB. Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine . Retrieved December 19, 2014
  6. ↑ German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine eV: DGKJ honorary members . Retrieved December 12, 2014
  7. ^ Ruhr University Bochum: Honor roll . Retrieved December 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Püschel, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Röhlinghausen
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1991
Place of death Bochum