Eugen Galewsky

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Eugen Emanuel Galewsky (born February 6, 1864 in Breslau ; died February 15, 1935 in Dresden ) was a German dermatologist .

Life

He was born into a respected family of merchants in Breslau. His father, Louis Galewsky (1819–1895), was a manufacturer of brandies and liqueurs. Between 1883 and 1888 Eugen Galewsky studied medicine at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau and at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1887 . After an internship at the Hygiene Institute at Freiburg University, I worked at one of the best German dermatological clinics at the time, Albert Neisser's clinic in Breslau. From 1891 on, he established himself as a freelance dermatologist at Dresden Waisenhausstrasse 28. He was a friend and doctor of the Dresden gynecologist Fritz Brosin .

Since it was founded in 1902, he has been an active supporter of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases and was chairman of the Saxony regional group of this society.

At the same time as Johannes Werther , he was engaged in the production of moulages to illustrate the effects of venereal diseases in particular, and in 1902 he was able to convince Karl August Lingner to design the exhibition Common diseases and their control in 1903 as his first health exhibition . This was so popular that it was also shown in Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Kiel from 1904 to 1906 . At Galewsky's suggestion, Lingner founded the Pathoplastic Institute in 1910 , the first of which was Fritz Kolbow (until 1922) and whose medical and scientific advisor Galewsky (from 1926 together with his partner Karl Linser ) and which was later incorporated into the Hygiene Museum .

A separate pavilion at the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911 was dedicated to venereal diseases , for which he was conceptually responsible. For this purpose, it was also possible to fall back on the moulage collection by Johannes Werther , whose realistic representation brought the pavilion enormous popularity on the one hand, but also the nickname "Galewsky's Chamber of Horrors" on the other.

In 1912 he was appointed professor due to his scientific achievements . He was the first to introduce 1,8-dihydroxy-10 H -anthracen-9-one (cignolin, dithranol ) for the treatment of psoriasis ( psoriasis ). The idea was to replace the previously used drug chrysarobin with considerable side effects. In 1916 Bayer AG in Leverkusen received the patent for the synthesis of dithranol in an inexpensive way. There is enough evidence that he brought the idea to his brother Paul Galewsky, the chemist and at that time employed by Bayer AG , in 1913, and that he in turn initiated and influenced industrial engineering. Dithranol is still used in the treatment of this disease over 100 years after its discovery.

In 1925, Galewsky, together with Johannes Werther, hosted the 14th Congress of the German Dermatological Society - an honor that expresses the recognition of the work of the Dresden dermatologists by their contemporaries: Until then, such a congress had never taken place in a location that had none medical college owned.

Significant was his commitment as a government commissioner for the enactment of the law to combat sexually transmitted diseases of 1927.

Since 1933 he was exposed to increasing harassment, he was denigrated as a schnapps Jew (based on the activities of his father), his practice was boycotted, and entry to the Hygiene Museum was forbidden. He died on February 15, 1935, highly admired by experts, his death was ignored by the public in Dresden. Heart failure was given as the cause of death , but even his contemporaries interpreted this as suicide .

Publications (selection)

During his life Eugen Galewsky published over 100 articles on skin, hair and sexually transmitted diseases, their causes and their therapy. A selection of early works:

  • Eugen Galewsky: A simple method for the production of skin photographs (to explain the photographs exhibited by the Dermatolog. Clinic in Breslau) , Archive for Dermatology and Syphilis, February 1, 1892, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 323–328, ISSN 0365-6020, doi : 10.1007 / BF01940209
  • Eugen Galewsky: About a hair disease not yet described (Trichonodosis) , Archive for Dermatology and Syphilis, June 1, 1906, Vol. 81, No. 2–3, pp. 195–196, ISSN 0365-6020, doi : 10.1007 / BF01929036
  • Eugen Galewsky: About a peculiar cornification anomaly of the follicles and their hair , Archives for Dermatology and Syphilis, March 1, 1911, Vol. 106, No. 1–3, pp. 215–216, ISSN 0365-6020, doi : 10.1007 / BF02012041
  • Eugen Galewsky: About Erythrodermia congenitalis ichthyosiformis , Archive for Dermatology and Syphilis, December 1, 1912, Vol. 113, No. 1, pp. 373-380, ISSN 0365-6020, doi : 10.1007 / BF01825778

See also

literature

  • Albrecht Scholz: Jewish Doctors in Dresden in the 20th Century . In: Dresdner Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Between Integration and Destruction - Jewish Life in Dresden in the 19th and 20th Centuries (= Dresdner Hefte - Contributions to Cultural History. No. 45, 2nd, modified edition, June 2000). Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-910055-34-6 , pp. 63-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Albrecht Scholz: Eugen Galewsky and the fight against venereal diseases , accessed on May 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Osterloh, Adele: Meine Töchter (manuscript) , communicated by Hans Pankotsch in: How did Fritz Brosin die - a search for clues !? In: "From the Saxon Mountaineering History", Issue 17 (2011), pp. (19–21) 21
  3. ↑ Albrecht Scholz: The History of Dermatology in Germany , limited preview on books.google.de , accessed on May 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Albrecht Scholz: Eugen Galewsky and the introduction of Cignolin (Dithranol) in the psoriasis treatment (entry SSS20.10) . Abstracts of the presentations made at the Meeting of the European Society for History of Dermatology and Venereology (ESHDV), accessed on May 30, 2018.
  5. ^ Obituary for Eugen Galewsky , accessed on May 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Galewsky, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galewsky, Eugen Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1935
Place of death Dresden