Felix Lewandowsky

Felix Lewandowsky (born October 1, 1879 in Hamburg , † October 31, 1921 in Basel ) was a German dermatologist .

Life

Lewandowsky was born in Hamburg as the son of a Jewish businessman. After graduating from high school in his hometown, he studied medicine in Berlin , Marburg and Strasbourg , where in 1902 he became an assistant at the university's hygienic-bacteriological institute. In the same year he received his doctorate there.

From 1903 to 1907 he worked at the dermatological clinic in Bern as an assistant to the dermatologist Josef Jadassohn . He then returned to Hamburg and worked at the local St. Georg Hospital in Eduard Arning's department . In 1917 he was appointed associate professor of dermatology at the University of Basel and director of the dermatological clinic at the Basel Citizens Hospital, despite the lack of a habilitation . He held his inaugural public lecture at the University of Basel on March 1, 1918. Only one year later he had to undergo surgery for cancer, but he finally died of lung metastases shortly after he was 42 years old in Basel.

Lewandowsky specialized in tuberculosis and skin diseases in children. In 1916 he published in the encyclopedia of clinical medicine as a special title No. 4 the work Die Tuberkulose , which was revised again in 1931.

Lewandowsky's name is still mentioned in the names of two skin diseases. First , there is the Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome belonging to Pachyonychia congenita , an ectodermal dysplasia, and second, the epidermodysplasia verruciformis , the rarely occurring Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia , which Lewandowsky described together with the dermatologist Wilhelm Lutz (1888-1958).

Works

• The tuberculosis of the skin, in encyclopedia of clinical medicine, special title 4 Die Tuberculose , Springer, Berlin 1916
• The progress of syphilidology , public inaugural lecture at the University of Basel on March 1, 1918, Schwabe Verlag, Basel 1918
• Handbook of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Volume 10.1, Tuberculosis of Skin and Venereal Diseases; edited by Richard Volk , secondary title: Completely revised based on the work of the same name by F. Lewandowsky , Springer, Berlin 1931

literature

• Sabine Luther: Felix Lewandowsky: Life and work of an important researcher, with special consideration of the Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (Lewandowsky-Lutz) - The Man behind the Eponym , dissertation 1994 presented at the University of Hamburg

Web links

• Michael L. Geiges: Lewandowsky, Felix. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Literature by and about Felix Lewandowsky in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Felix Lewandowsky † . In: Acta dermato-venereologica 1921 Vol. 2, p. 406.