Ferdinand Blumenthal

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Ferdinand Blumenthal (1930)

Ferdinand Blumenthal (born June 5, 1870 in Berlin ; † July 5, 1941 west of Narwa , Estonia ) was a German oncologist , head of the Institute for Cancer Research at Charité Berlin, publisher of the journal for cancer research and secretary general of the German Central Committee for Research and Research Fight against cancer e. V.

Career

Ferdinand Blumenthal was born in Berlin as the son of the medical councilor Julius Blumenthal and his wife Zerline, b. Lesser, born. Blumenthal came from a Jewish family; one brother was the dermatologist Franz Blumenthal , who emigrated to the USA in 1933, his sister Katharina Buss-Blumenthal was murdered in Auschwitz on August 31, 1942 , and his brother Hans Blumenthal was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on November 5, 1942 and arrived there a short time later.

Ferdinand Blumenthal studied medicine in Freiburg , Strasbourg , Zurich and Berlin and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1895 as a doctor of medicine on the basis of his previously published work "On the influence of alkali on the metabolism of microbes" based on his investigations with Ernst Salkowski in the chemical Department at the Institute for Pathology at the Charité. In 1896 he passed the state examination and became a volunteer assistant at the First Medical Clinic of the Charité under the directorate of Ernst Viktor von Leydens . At the end of 1896, the 26-year-old Blumenthal was appointed senior physician by the Charité directorate and in 1897, after Georg Klemperer had left , he was appointed scientific director of the laboratory. In 1899 he received his habilitation and in 1905 he was appointed associate professor. During the First World War , Blumenthal secured the existence of the cancer research institute with private funds, after which he expanded and modernized it. Under his direction a radiation department (Jakob Tugendreich, Ludwig Halberstaedter), a histological-hematological department ( Hans Hirschfeld ), a chemical department (Arthur Lasnitzki, Otto Rosenthal), a department for experimental cell research (Rhoda Erdmann) and a department for experimental virus research (Ernst Fränkel) created.

Blumenthal was forced to retire on September 24, 1933 by the National Socialists. In the same year he emigrated to Yugoslavia via Switzerland. He received a professorship at the Belgrade Medical Faculty, which he took up in November 1933 and which he held until the end of 1936. From the beginning of 1937 he stayed in Vienna. After the occupation of Austria by the Wehrmacht , Blumenthal was imprisoned by the Gestapo for three months. In January 1939 he traveled to Tirana at the invitation of the Albanian government. In spring 1939 he finally emigrated to Estonia ( Reval ), which was occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940 . After the Wehrmacht marched into Estonia in June 1941, Blumenthal was interned by the Soviet administration and deported with his wife and two daughters. Blumenthal died while being transported by train on July 5, 1941 from a German air raid west of Narwas shortly before leaving Estonian territory. His wife and daughters Zerlina and Hildegard were injured in the attack; their further fate is unknown.

Act

Blumenthal was highly committed to maintaining and further developing the Institute for Cancer Research at the Charité, also using its own funds. At an early stage he advocated an interdisciplinary approach and the establishment of tumor conferences for the best possible patient care. He also advocated multimodal tumor therapy with surgery, radiation and the drugs that were available at the time. The follow-up cancer care by experienced caregivers was an important concern of his. Blumenthal provided essential impulses with his work in the “German Central Committee for Research and Control of Cancer Disease eV”, the forerunner organization of the German Cancer Society , which he led for years together with the internist Friedrich Kraus . He was editor of the Journal for Cancer Research .

Honors

In 1897 the Queen of Spain awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Isabel for his scientific achievements .

Publications (excerpt)

  • On the change in the tetanus poison in the animal body and its relation to the antitoxin German Medical Weekly 24: 185-188, 1889.
  • About the status of the question of sugar formation from protein bodies. German Medical Weekly 25: 826-828, 1899.
  • Internal treatment and care for cancer patients. Journal of Cancer Research 10: 134-148, 1911.
  • About the regression of malignant tumors through treatment with one's own tumor extract (Autovaccine). Journal of Cancer Research 11: 427-448, 1912.
  • Report on the welfare office for cancer patients and cancer suspects of the German Central Committee for Research and Control of Cancer Diseases. V. from January 1, 1906 to December 31, 1910. Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung 11: 156-166, 1912.
  • About the regression of malignant tumors through treatment with your own tumor extract (Autovaccine). Journal of Cancer Research 11: 427-448, 1912
  • The chemical-biological processes in cancer. Journal of Cancer Research 16: 58-74. 1917.
  • with Hans Auler, Paula Meyer: About the occurrence of neoplastic bacteria in human cancer ulcers. Journal of Cancer Research 21: 387-410, 1923.
  • For the 25th anniversary of the German Central Committee for Research and Combating Cancer Disease. Journal of Cancer Research 22: 97-107, 1925.
  • Research into and fight against cancer , in: Archives for Social Hygiene and Demography 2 (1926/27) 521-524.
  • About generation of tumors with blood from tumor animals. Journal of Cancer Research 29: 549-553, 1929.
  • Results of experimental cancer research and cancer therapy. Leiden 1934.

literature

  • Friedrich Kraus : Ferdinand Blumenthal. Z. Krebsforschung 32: 2-4, 1930.
  • Andreas D. Ebert , P. Reitzig: Ferdinand Blumenthal (1870–1941). A contribution to the history of the Charité. Charité-Annalen, New Series. Volume 11, 237-238, 1991.
  • Harro Jenss, Peter Reinicke : Ferdinand Blumenthal. Fighter for advanced cancer medicine and cancer care. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942271-69-1 .
  • Ernst Pütter: Ferdinand Blumenthal. Journal of Cancer Research 32: 5-9, 1930.
  • Herbert A. Strauss , Werner Röder (eds.): International biographical dictionary of central European emigrés 1933–1945. Vol. II / Part 1: AK. Munich, New York, London, Paris: KG Saur 1983.
  • Peter Voswinckel : In memoriam Hans Hirschfeld (1873-1944). Folia Haematologica, Leipzig 114: 707-736, 1987.
  • Peter Voswinckel: 50 years of the German Society for Hematology and Oncology. Würzburg 32-47, 1987.
  • Peter Voswinckel: Memorial place on the crab barracks. Clarifications about the first interdisciplinary cancer research institute in Germany (Berlin, Charité). Ed. Board of the German Society for Hematology and Oncology (DGHO) eV, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816354-2-3 .
  • Gustav Wagner , Andrea Mauerberger: Cancer research in Germany. Springer, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-540-51606-9 .
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • The administrative director of the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin. Personnel files of the civil servant. Associate Professor Dr. Ferdinand Blumenthal. Archive Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Vol. 1.
  • Peter Reinicke : Blumenthal, Ferdinand , in: Hugo Maier (ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 90

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personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1941
Place of death west of Narva