Ernst Moro

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Ernst Moro (1904)
The Luisenheilanstalt after its renovation and modernization is now part of the ATOS Practice Clinic Heidelberg

Ernst Moro (born December 8, 1874 in Laibach , Duchy of Krain , Austria-Hungary ; † April 17, 1951 in Heidelberg , Württemberg-Baden ) was an Austrian pediatrician and professor of paediatrics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

biography

Graz, Vienna, Munich

Ernst Moro was born the youngest of eight children. After the death of his parents, he left his birthplace in Ljubljana (today: Ljubljana) and moved to Trieste, where his sister lived. There he also passed his Abitur. He first studied biology and then medicine at the University of Graz . He received his doctorate in 1899 and became an assistant doctor at the Graz University Children's Clinic under the direction of Theodor Escherich . He then followed Escherich to Vienna and worked from April 1902 to the end of March 1903 as an assistant doctor at the St. Anna Children's Hospital . In 1903 he founded a private “infant home and children's sanatorium” in Vienna. In 1906 he went back to Graz, where Meinhard von Pfaundler had succeeded Escherich.

1907 Moro went to Munich after last year been his teacher Pfaundler had moved to Munich where Moro present with him in 1906 for the subject Pediatrics habilitation had. Moro now worked as a private lecturer and senior physician at the children's clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and dealt with research on tuberculosis . In 1907 he discovered the percutaneous tuberculin test.

Heidelberg

On January 24, 1911, Moro became associate professor of paediatrics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and clinical director of the children's hospital , which was then called Luisenheilanstalt (named after Grand Duchess Luise von Baden , renamed University Children's Hospital in 1923 ) as Emil Feer's successor . With his appointment, the children's clinic became the focus of international research. Moro was responsible for numerous reforms such as the introduction of a roof terrace for light and air therapy for children. In 1912, Moro tried to improve the poor financial conditions in the Luisenanstalt with the “ Luisenbazar ”. In 1919 Moro was appointed full professor to the chair of paediatrics at Heidelberg University. Moro led the Luisenheilanstalt to a height that made it a center of international pediatrics for many years. His assistants became recognized scientists and his listeners adored him. The nurses trained in-house were happy to serve all over the world.

During the famine years after the First World War , Moro reported to the Reich Health Office on Christmas Day 1920 as part of a survey that there was a lack of milk, butter and meat in Heidelberg. With an occupancy of 40 infants, there are no fewer than four most severe Barlow cases in the Luisenanstalt. It was a disease during the first two years of life with a strong tendency to bleed. The situation was similar in other German cities. The Quäkerspeisung tried at that time to improve the nutritional status of malnourished children.

In 1920 Moro turned down a call to the University of Zagreb . However, he translated documents from medical students from Zagreb. In 1933 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1936 he settled at his own request due to the Nazi racial laws emeritus since his wife Grete was of Jewish origin. He gave health reasons for his resignation. Viktor von Weizsäcker and Curt Oehme prepared confirmatory reports. Until 1948 Moro still ran a private practice in Heidelberg Mozartstrasse.

The relationship between Moro and the sisterhood of the Luisenanstalt was characterized by great mutual respect . The nurses remained loyal to him even after he had long since left the clinic. While the medical profession had retired, the nurses brought him home a cake they had baked every year on his birthday. At the funeral in 1951, “his” sisters stood in line at his coffin and paid their last respects to Moro.

One of Ernst Moro's students was Marie Elise Kayser (1885–1950), the founder of the human milk collection points in Germany. Another student of Moro was the Transylvanian pediatrician Paul Gyorgy .

International guest book

Under Ernst Moro, Heidelberg Pediatrics achieved international renown. Evidence of this was also the guest book that Ernst Moro had created. Guests from all over the world registered here, including the couple Dr. med. Chou with his wife from Shanghai. When Moro, shortly after his return from the Bühlerhöhe Sanatorium, which he had visited for health reasons from November 1935 to the end of the summer semester 1936, decided not to enter the clinic, he took this guest book home with him.

Fonts

  • About the behavior of hemolytic serum substances. 1908
  • Erythema nodosum and tuberculosis , Münchner med. Wochenschrift 21 (1913), 5 pages.
  • On the influence of whey on the intestinal epithelium, meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , Math.-nat. Class , Winter Verlag Heidelberg 1914, 5.
  • On recurrent umbilical colic in older children , Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift 1914, 8.
  • About a remarkable case of measles infection , monthly for paediatrics XIV vol. No. 1, Leipzig 1916, 2 pages.
  • with Carl Temmerman Noeggerath: Memorandum for the establishment of a central office for maternal and child welfare in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Department for mother and child care , magazine for infant and toddler protection, Silke Berlin 1917.

Services

The following medical findings and achievements go back to Ernst Moro:

  • Germ poverty in the normal small intestine (see composition of the intestinal flora )
  • stronger bactericidal properties in the blood of breastfed children
  • Description of certain abdominal pain in children as "umbilical colic"
  • "Moro-Probe" (percutaneous tuberculin test )
  • Description of the first trimester and the Moro reflex (1918)
  • He also published a recipe for a carrot soup (also called Moro soup ), which at the beginning of the 20th century significantly reduced the death and complication rates of children with diarrhea and is now becoming interesting again because it is also effective against resistant germs.
  • In 1929 Moro announced his later famous "apple diet" for the treatment of diarrheal conditions. The colleague August Heisler had pointed out to Moro the effect of Apple Days as an old folk remedy for intestinal calamus. When the whole Eugeniensaal was infected by a small house infection with enteritis, all the children ate raw apple puree. Further clinical testing proved the experiment right. In Moro's opinion, the tannin content of raw, grated apples caused certain detoxification processes to alleviate the symptoms of dyspepsia, dysentery and dysentery disorders.

Honors

  • 1938 Honorary Member of the Romanian Society of Pediatrics in Cluj (now Cluj-Napoca)
  • Symposium: Prof. Ernst Moro - Golden Years of Heidelberg Pediatrics , February 20, 2002 ( Wolfgang U. Eckart and Georg F. Hoffmann)
  • Memorial plaque for Ernst Moro on his private house, Heidelberg Mozartstrasse 10; unveiled on December 8, 2004 on the occasion of its 130th birthday
  • » Ernst Moro House «: Building 6155 of the Heidelberg University Hospital (Im Neuenheimer Feld 155; HeiCuMed = Heidelberg Curriculum Medicine) is named after Ernst Moro. This building currently (2017) houses the " Section Psycho-Oncology of the Clinic for General Clinical Medicine and Psychosomatics "
  • Exhibition " Golden Years of Heidelberg Pediatrics: The Pediatrician Ernst Moro ", Heidelberg University Archives January 1 to 31, 2017
  • Heidelberg University Archives: Picture of the month January 2017: Ernst Moro.
  • Heidelberg University Archives, showcase exhibition (November 14, 2017 - April 26, 2018; extension until March 2019): Ernst Moro - Golden Years of Heidelberg Pediatrics

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Gerda Schief, b. Kiehnle: Ernst Moro (1874−1951) , dissertation Institute for the History of Medicine, academic advisor Heinrich Schipperges , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , 1969, pages 29, 38, 40, 41 + 61.
  2. ^ Andreas Mettenleiter : Personal reports, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements III (I – Z). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 269-305, here: p. 281.
  3. ↑ a b c d e website Heidelberg University Archives: Exhibition Ernst Moro , accessed on January 21, 2017.
  4. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart: Moro, Ernst. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1009.
  5. ^ UniversitätsKlinikum Heidelberg: Since 1860: Pediatrics in Heidelberg - Foray through history , see first entry for 1911.
  6. ↑ a b c Showcase exhibition Ernst Moro, Heidelberg University Archives, November 14, 2017 - April 26, 2018.
  7. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart: Medicine and War. Germany 1914-1924 , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag Paderborn 2014, pp. 270/271, ISBN 978-3-506-75677-0 .
  8. ↑ Christine R. Auer: criminal case soldier 1.WK Daniel von Dienes (1924): "In his distress he had the high school diploma falsified in Vienna and presented it to the medical faculties in Agram and Heidelberg ...". With a contribution by Eva Martinovic (Department of History, University of Zagreb), Heidelberg University Archives 2019, p. 6 f.
  9. ↑ Member entry of Ernst Moro at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 20, 2017.
  10. ↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast : The University of Heidelberg in National Socialism. With 44 illustrations , Springer Medizin Verlag Heidelberg 2006, here: Wolfgang U. Eckart: The Medical Faculty, pp. 641–649, on Ernst Moro pp. 642, 649, ISBN 978-3-540-21442-7
  11. ↑ Angela Weirich, in: Showcase exhibition at Heidelberg University Archives , November 14, 2017 - April 26, 2018.
  12. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Marie-Elise Kayser , in: Hubert Kolling (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history” , Vol. 7 hps media Nidda 2015, p. 142 f.
  13. ↑ Carrot soup according to Moro could also paralyze EHEC, Ärzte Zeitung , June 8, 2011.
  14. ↑ U. Kastner, S. Glasl, B. Follrich, JP Guggenbichler, J. Jurenitsch: Acid oligosaccharides as the active principle of aqueous preparations made from carrots in the prophylaxis and therapy of gastrointestinal infections , Wiener Medical Wochenschrift 2002; 152 (15-16) : 379-81.
  15. ↑ Heidelberg University Hospital website: Ernst Moro memorial plaque unveiled , accessed on February 27, 2017.
  16. ↑ Heidelberg University Archives website: Ernst Moro, picture of the month, January 2017 , accessed on January 22, 2017.
  17. ^ Heidelberg University Archives website: Ernst Moro exhibition , accessed on November 17, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Moro, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human medicine, professor of paediatrics
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Laibach
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1951
Place of death Heidelberg