Ernst Freudenberg

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Ernst Freudenberg (born June 24, 1884 in Weinheim ; † June 7, 1967 in Basel ) was a German pediatrician and professor of paediatrics at the Universities of Marburg and Basel .

Life

Freudenberg was the son of the Weinheim leather manufacturer Friedrich Carl Freudenberg (1848–1942). After graduating from the Lessing Gymnasium in Frankfurt and doing military service as a one-year volunteer in Karlsruhe , he began studying philosophy and psychology at the University of Leipzig in 1903 . The following year he moved to the University of Munich , where he studied medicine. In 1910 he was with that of Yusuf Ibrahim supervised work trials with diuretics to-chlorine-made animals doctorate . Until 1911 he worked as a medical intern at the Munich Polyclinic with Meinhard von Pfaundler .

Freudenberg married Ida Siegheim (1887–1951) in 1910, with whom he had four daughters. His wife later converted from the Jewish to the Evangelical faith.

After studying at the University of Strasbourg in 1912, Freudenberg worked as a senior physician under Ernst Moro at the Heidelberg Children's Clinic from 1913 . During the First World War , Freudenberg served as a medical officer on the Western Front . 1917 took place its Habilitation with Scripture About deproteinization by charcoal . After being taken prisoner in England, he returned to Heidelberg in 1919. In 1922 Freudenberg took over as associate professor in Marburg, succeeding Georg Bessau , who had moved to the University Children's Hospital in Leipzig . In 1927, the new building of the university children's clinic with 60 beds ("Carolinenhaus") next to the Elisabeth Church, which was worked on by Freudenberg, was completed. After a stay in the United States in 1929, the pediatrician was dean of the Marburg Medical Faculty in the winter semester of 1929/1930 and in the summer semester of 1930 .

Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the house of the Freudenberg family was searched - probably due to denunciation by an employee. The law to restore the civil service led to the dismissal of Heinz Brühl, Freudenberg's assistant, and his emigration in the same year . Freudenberg was able - contrary to a decree by the Ministry - to fill this position with a pediatrician. At the end of 1933, Ernst Freudenberg became a full member of the Leopoldina . In the following year, Freudenberg's extraordinary was converted into an ordinate .

With effect from 31 October 1937 Freudenberg was based on the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service "as versippt Jewish " retired after he had resisted the demand to separate from his wife. The Leopoldina management struck him from the list of members. Freudenberg emigrated to Switzerland , where from 1938 to 1954 he was Emil Wieland's successor and full professor of pediatrics and headed the children's hospital at the University of Basel. During this time, numerous specialist areas developed at the hospital. His successor was Adolf Hottinger . Under his editorship, the yearbook of paediatrics developed into the international journal Annales Paediatrici .

Freudenberg's main areas of work included the physiology of digestion in childhood, the acid-base balance as well as celiac disease , rickets and tetany .

Awards

  • Iron Cross (1914) 1st and 2nd class
  • Member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 1929
  • Otto Heubner Prize of the German Society for Pediatrics, 1932 (for the book Physiology and Pathology of Digestion in Infancy )
  • Member of the Leopoldina , 1933
  • Member of the American Geographic Society, 1960
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Würzburg, 1962
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg, 1965

Works (selection)

  • Physiology and pathology of digestion in infancy. Springer, Berlin 1929.

literature

  • Adolf Hottinger: In memoriam Prof. Ernst Freudenberg. In: Helv Pediatr Acta. 22, 1967, pp. 497-499, PMID 4874393 .
  • Josef Ströder: In memory of Ernst Freudenberg. In: Arch Kinderheilkd. 177, 1968, pp. 111-113, PMID 4880027 .
  • Josef Neumann: Freudenberg, Ernst. In: Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Badische Biographien. New episode, Volume 3, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1990, pp. 88-90 ( online ).
  • Michael Bernhard: The pediatrician Ernst Freudenberg 1884-1967. Tectum Verlag , Marburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-8288-8231-7 .
  • Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518, here p. 506 ( Freudenberger, Ernst ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Pediatric Medicine in Basel
personal data
SURNAME Freudenberg, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinheim
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1967
Place of death Basel