Ernst Chaim Wertheimer

Ernst Chaim Wertheimer (born August 24, 1893 in Bühl (Baden) , † March 23, 1978 Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli physiologist and diabetes researcher.

Life

Ernst Wertheimer was a son of Leo Wertheimer (1869–1940), he had three siblings, including the art dealer Otto Wertheimer, born in 1896 . His father and sisters were victims of the Holocaust . His mother was rescued from the Drancy assembly camp .

After High School in Buhl, he studied from 1913 at the University of Kiel and the University of Bonn Medicine . He interrupted his studies as a volunteer in the medical service in the First World War . He served first at a first aid station in Flanders , then as a battery doctor for the field artillery . He was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Baden Medal of Merit . After the end of the war he finished his training at Heidelberg University , where he also received his doctorate . In 1920/21 he was a doctor at the Berlin orphanage. From 1921 he worked as an assistant at the physiological department of the University of Halle , where he completed his habilitation in 1923 and was appointed as an associate professor as a (non-civil servant) senior assistant. Among his students was u. a. Sports medicine specialist Auguste Hoffmann . He published many times together with Emil Abderhalden . In 1933 he was dismissed from the service as a Jew, but he was not prohibited from publishing, so that in 1934 further scientific papers appeared in Germany. He received a job offer from Moscow (head of a biochemical laboratory), a call to the chair of physiology at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangdong) and an offer for a temporary position in Israel. In 1934 he emigrated with his wife to Palestine , where he became head of the biochemical laboratory at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem . Here he took the Hebrew first name Chaim and was soon appointed professor of pathophysiology , which he held until his retirement in 1963. At the same time he headed the pharmaceutical department.

Scientific importance

With his partially groundbreaking research on diabetes and metabolism , he made a name for himself internationally and received the renowned Israel Prize for Medical Research in 1956 . He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities for Medical Sciences , received the Banting Medal of the American Diabetes Association in 1964 and the Bublick Prize of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; here he was also made an honorary doctorate in the humanities.

Web links

Literature by and about Ernst Chaim Wertheimer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Wertheimer: About irreversible permeability. Pflüger's archive for the entire physiology of humans and animals 200 (1923), 1, 354-365; About the irreversible permeability of animal membranes to gases. Pflüger's archive for the entire physiology of humans and animals 209 (1925), 1, 493-498.
↑ Arnd Krüger : "When the Olympics are over, we will beat the Jews to a pulp". The relationship of the Jews to the Olympic Games of 1936. In: Menora 5th year book for German-Jewish history 1994. Piper, Munich, 331 - 348.
↑ Entry on Ernst Chaim Wertheimer in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
^ Acta Med Orient . 1953 Jul-Aug; 12 (7-8): 185-186. PROFESSOR Ernst Wertheimer on the occasion of his 60th birthday, August 23rd 1953.
↑ Samuel S. Kottek: Arrived early in Palestine, in: Albrecht Scholz / Caris-Petra Heidel (eds.): Emigrant fates. Influence of Jewish emigrants on social policy and science in the receiving countries , Frankfurt / Main 2004.
^ According to S. Lenzen et al .: Alloxan derivates as a tool for the elucidation of the mechanism of the diabetogenic action of alloxan. In: Eleazar Shafrir (Ed.): Lessons from Animal Diabetes VI: 75th Anniversary of the Insulin Discovery. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1996, p. 118, he is one of the three most important diabetes researchers worldwide.
^ Institute for Contemporary History / Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 , Vol. 2, Munich 1983.

personal data
SURNAME	Wertheimer, Ernst Chaim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wertheimer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Israeli physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bühl (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1978
Place of death	Jerusalem

[1] Ernst Wertheimer: About irreversible permeability. Pflüger's archive for the entire physiology of humans and animals 200 (1923), 1, 354-365; About the irreversible permeability of animal membranes to gases. Pflüger's archive for the entire physiology of humans and animals 209 (1925), 1, 493-498.

[2] Arnd Krüger : "When the Olympics are over, we will beat the Jews to a pulp". The relationship of the Jews to the Olympic Games of 1936. In: Menora 5th year book for German-Jewish history 1994. Piper, Munich, 331 - 348.

[3] Entry on Ernst Chaim Wertheimer in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)

[4] Acta Med Orient . 1953 Jul-Aug; 12 (7-8): 185-186. PROFESSOR Ernst Wertheimer on the occasion of his 60th birthday, August 23rd 1953.

[5] Samuel S. Kottek: Arrived early in Palestine, in: Albrecht Scholz / Caris-Petra Heidel (eds.): Emigrant fates. Influence of Jewish emigrants on social policy and science in the receiving countries , Frankfurt / Main 2004.

[6] According to S. Lenzen et al .: Alloxan derivates as a tool for the elucidation of the mechanism of the diabetogenic action of alloxan. In: Eleazar Shafrir (Ed.): Lessons from Animal Diabetes VI: 75th Anniversary of the Insulin Discovery. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1996, p. 118, he is one of the three most important diabetes researchers worldwide.

[7] Institute for Contemporary History / Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 , Vol. 2, Munich 1983.