Franz Engel Bey
Franz Engel (born February 18, 1850 in Hamburg , † March 14, 1931 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German doctor. In Egypt he devoted himself to lepers.
Life
Engel studied medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Universität Leipzig , Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . After the exam and the license to practice medicine, he settled in Berlin as a general practitioner. He went to Cairo in 1879 and became a spa doctor in Helwan . When British rule was established in Egypt , he reorganized Egyptian medical statistics from 1884. He arranged for an official census of lepers in Egypt in 1890 and set up a private polyclinic for lepers. At his instigation, the chemists Felix Hoffmann and Taub from the Elberfelder Farbwerke in 1906 presented the ethyl ester of Chaulmoogra oil as a pure preparation. Engel introduced this better tolerated and parenterally applicable "antileprol" in 1907 in the treatment of leprosy. His plan for a state leprosy hospital in Egypt was not implemented until 1929.
Honors
- Bey (title) (1890)
- professor
Works
- Notes on leprosy in Egypt. What can be done against leprosy? I. Int. Leprosy Conference, 1897
- The treatment of leprosy with the ethyl ester of chaulmoogra oil . Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene 26 (1922), p. 16 f.
- On the therapy of leprosy , ibid., Supplement 2, 1926.
- As a German doctor in Egypt, memoirs of Franz Engel Bey . H. Laupp 1932.
Descendants
The musicologist Hans Engel was a son. The daughter Irmgard (Adelheid Anna) Engel was born in Zurich and was a pediatrician in Wroclaw. She married the Jewish colleague Siegfried Samelson (1878–1938), associate professor for pediatrics in Breslau. The sons Hans Samelson and Klaus Samelson emerged from the marriage.
literature
- E. Gotschlich, German Medical Wochenschrift 56 (1930), p. 404 f.
- Gottlieb Olpp, in: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 78 (1931), p. 2163 f.
- Gottlieb Olpp: Outstanding Tropical Doctors , 1932, p. 118 f. (W, P).
- Herbert Böttger: Engel, Franz , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), p. 501. online
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engel, Franz Bey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engel, Martin Georg Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German leprosy doctor in Egypt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1931 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Charlottenburg |