Franz Maximilian Groedel
Franz Maximilian Groedel (born May 23, 1881 in Bad Nauheim , † October 12, 1951 in New York ) was a German cardiologist who emigrated to the USA .
Life
His father was Isidor Maximilian Groedel (also: Isidor Mayer Groedel; 1850-1921). He was considered a pioneer of balneology and cardiology and was an honorary citizen of the city of Bad Nauheim. He was also the doctor of the last German Empress .
Franz Maximilian Groedel studied in Munich, Giessen and Leipzig. During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Gießen fraternity (1901) and the Cimbria Munich fraternity . He did his doctorate in Leipzig . In 1909 he developed X-ray cinematography. His habilitation took place in Frankfurt am Main in 1919. In 1925 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
He founded the Kerckhoff Institute in Bad Nauheim and became its first director in 1931. In 1951 the Max Planck Society took over. The current name is Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research .
After the “ seizure of power ” in 1933 he was forced to emigrate to the USA because of his Jewish descent. He was the founder of the American College of Cardiology . His fields of work were radiology and cardiology.
His urn was buried in the family crypt in the general cemetery in Bad Nauheim.
In memory of Groedel, the German Cardiac Society awards the Franz Groedel Medal from 1955 .
Fonts (selection)
- as publisher: Atlas and floor plan of X-ray diagnostics in internal medicine. Lehmann, Munich 1909; 2nd edition 1914; 3rd edition: Floor plan and atlas of X-ray diagnostics in internal medicine and the border areas. 1921; 4th edition: Textbook and atlas of X-ray diagnostics in internal medicine and its border areas. 1924; Another, largely revised edition: Franz M. Groedels X-ray diagnostics in internal medicine and its border areas (textbook and atlas). Edited by Heinz Lossen. 2 volumes. Ibid. 1936. - With contributions from Groedel, Lossen, Hermann Wintz , Peiper and Heinrich Guthmann .
literature
- Berndt Lüderitz: History: Franz Maximilian Groedel (1881-1951). In: Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. Volume 6, 2002, p. 197.
- Martin Schlepper: Franz Maximilian Groedel. A German fate of international cardiological importance (memory lecture on the occasion of the 54th annual meeting of the German Society for Cardiovascular Research in Mannheim in April 1988). Mannheim 1988.
- Horst Zoske: Groedel, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 109 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, T. Alemannia. # 208.
- ↑ Franz Maximilian Geoedel, The technique of Röntgenkinematographie. In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, (1909) 35/10, pp. 434-435.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Maximilian Groedel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franz Maximilian Groedel Research Prize , website of the German Society for Cardiology
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groedel, Franz Maximilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American cardiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Nauheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1951 |
| Place of death | new York |