Franz E. Rosenthal

Franz E. Rosenthal (born August 31, 1885 in Seelow , † May 8, 1973 in New York City ) was a German dermatologist .

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Franz E. Rosenthal was the son of a district judge. After attending school in Landsberg an der Warthe , he studied medicine in Zurich , Freiburg , Heidelberg and Berlin from 1905 to 1910 . In 1911 he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and received his license to practice medicine . He then went to the interior of Brazil as a ship's doctor to study tropical diseases. From 1912 to 1915 he was an assistant doctor in the internal department of the Friedrichshain hospital . During the Balkan War , he ran a hospital for Asian cholera in Philippople on behalf of the Red Cross . During the First World War he served as a medical officer from 1914 to 1918. From 1919 to 1920 he was an assistant doctor to Alfred Blaschko . He then opened a practice as a specialist in skin and venereal diseases. He was treasurer of the Association of Socialist Doctors and a member of the League for Human Rights .

After being banned from working by the Nazi regime in December 1933 , he fled to Cape Town . Here he completed another three-year course in medicine and then set up a private practice. At the same time he worked in the dermatological department of the Groote-Schuur-Hospital founded in 1938 .

In 1957 he emigrated to the USA . Since 1958 he worked in various hospitals in New York State . From 1962 until his death he was an admission doctor at the "Boulevard Hospital". In 1963 he became a member for life of the "Medical Society of New York".

Franz E. Rosenthal introduced the term Berloque Syndrome to dermatology .

Magazine articles

In: The Socialist Doctor .

• Protective tariffs and public health. Volume I (1925), Issue 2–3 (July), pp. 9–11 (digitized version)
• Contribution to the discussion on Gerhard Obuch (The prison system ...). Volume II (1926), Issue 1 (April), p. 38 (digitized version)
• Russia's fight against venereal diseases. Volume II (1926), Issue 1 (April), p. 52 (digitized version)
• The new law to combat sexually transmitted diseases. Volume II (1927), Issue 4 (March), pp. 22-23 (digitized version)
• The fight against the housing shortage from a social and hygienic point of view. Volume III (1927), Issue 1–2 (August), pp. 8–16 (digitized version )
• The socialist doctor and the fight against alcoholism. Volume III (1928), Issue 4 (April), pp. 36–37 (digitized version)

literature

• Stephan Leibfried, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.). Professional bans and social policy 1933. The effects of the National Socialist seizure of power on the health insurance administration and the health insurance doctors. Analysis. Assault and self-help materials. Memories. (Working papers of the research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy. No. 2. University of Bremen.) Research focus on reproductive risks, social movements and social policy University of Bremen, Bremen 1979, p. 106–128: Professional bans and the “Association of Socialist Doctors”, here p. 120