Friedrich Curtius (medic)

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Friedrich Curtius (born October 2, 1896 in Thann , Alsace; † March 13, 1975 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ) was a German internist , hereditary pathologist and psychosomatic specialist .

Life

The son of the civil servant Friedrich Curtius attended the secondary school in Strasbourg and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1922. Curtius worked as an assistant doctor at the Clinic for Internal Medicine at the University of Bonn . From October 1, 1928, he was Fritz Kiffner's successor for a year as an assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics . He qualified as a professor for internal medicine in Bonn in 1930 and became a doctor at the polyclinic. As a private lecturer , he moved from Bonn to Heidelberg in 1931. In 1934 he became head of the genetic pathology department at the I. Medical University Clinic of the Charité and in 1935 an adjunct professor at the University of Berlin . Curtius was not a member of the NSDAP , but was a judge at the Hereditary Health Court and worked as an appraiser for the Reichssippenamt and the Reichsundheitsamt . From 1940 he co- edited the magazine for human heredity and constitution, founded in 1935 as a continuation of the Zeitschrift für Konstitutionlehre . In the final phase of the Second World War he was employed as a doctor in the Navy .

After the end of the war he became chief physician at the Medical Clinic at the University of Lübeck in 1946 . The now outdated term Curtius syndrome for hemihypertrophy goes back to him .

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1967)
  • The psychosomatic clinic in Malente-Gremsmühlen is named after Curtius (1991)

Fonts (selection)

  • Try on the frog intestine. Dissertation, Heidelberg University, 1922.
  • Multiple sclerosis and hereditary disposition. Thieme, Leipzig 1933.
  • With Richard Siebeck : Constitution and Heredity in Clinical Medicine. Metzner, Berlin 1935.
  • The hereditary organic and functional diseases of the nervous system. Enke, Stuttgart 1935.
  • With Hans Schlotter and Edmund Schmolz: Tabes dorsalis : Clinical, hereditary and constitutional pathological as well as social medical examinations. Utilizing the experience gained in the provision of war invalids. Thieme, Leipzig 1938.
  • Ed. With Curt Adam: Individual pathology: The constitution of the individual in its meaning for the development and course of diseases. A series of lectures. Fischer, Jena 1939.
  • With Karl-Heinz Krüger: The vegetative-endocrine syndrome in women. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin 1952.
  • Clinical doctrine of constitution. Springer, Berlin 1954.
  • Individual and Illness: Basic Features of an Individual Pathology. Springer, Berlin 1959.
  • The ulcerative colitis and its conservative treatment. Springer, Berlin 1962.
  • Modern asthma treatment: breathing training, relaxation, psychotherapy. Springer, Berlin 1965.
  • Of medical thinking and mine. Enke, Stuttgart 1968.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alken Bruns (ed.): Lübeck résumés from nine centuries. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2009, p. 92.
  2. ↑ Who is who? 16th edition (1970). P. 183.
  3. ^ A b c Hans-Walter Schmuhl : Crossing borders: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 76 f. ( online )
  4. ↑ a b Jürgen Pfeiffer: Hirnforschung in Deutschland 1849 to 1974. Springer, Berlin 2004, p. 1063 ( online ).
  5. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 98.
  6. ↑ 40 years of the University of Lübeck (1964–2004)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association, accessed on July 6, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.aeksh.de  
  7. ^ Curtius in Who named it
personal data
SURNAME Curtius, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Thann
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1975
Place of death Weilheim in Upper Bavaria