Erwin Schliephake

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Erwin Friedrich Karl Victor Georg Heinrich Schliephake (born August 18, 1894 in Gießen ; † January 26, 1995 there ) was a German physician .

Life

The son of a doctor studied medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the Humboldt University in Berlin and then volunteered for the First World War . In 1920 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the diagnostic usability of tactile motor reactions in cerebral paralysis .

After completing his years of assistance in Leipzig and Rostock , he went to Jena , where he primarily devoted himself to internal medicine . In this subject he qualified as a professor under Wolfgang Veil in 1929. Four years later, Schliephake returned to his hometown Gießen and was appointed professor there in 1936. Among other things, he dealt with electromedicine , was a senior doctor at the Balser Foundation as a private lecturer and worked on the lexicon of the entire therapy .

Initially appointed to Erlangen in 1941, he found a new scientific home in Würzburg in 1942 as associate professor and director of the university polyclinic . After the Second World War he took over the management of the city hospital in Schweinfurt , between 1952 and 1958 he was full professor of internal medicine and chief physician of the Balserische Stiftung in Gießen. In 1957/58 he set up a chair for physical therapy in Alexandria and taught there as a visiting professor for a year. He then went into retirement

Schliephake had four children. One son has been missing since March 1945. Konrad Schliephake became a professor for geography and academic director at the University of Würzburg .

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The main focus of Schliephake's research was on endocrinology , rheumatology and carcinology .

Since 1928 he was concerned with the possibility of using shortwave in medicine, especially in the therapy of cancer patients . In collaboration with the physicist Abraham Esau , he developed short-wave therapy . Although Schliephake was able to record healing successes even in inoperable patients, his method did not find its way into conventional medicine .

Publications (selection)

  • Short-wave therapy (first edition 1932)
  • Medical Polyclinic (first edition 1951)
  • Rheumatism (1952)
  • Cancer and Inflammation (1980)
  • Cancer and Natural Defenses (1985)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).