Friedrich Umber
Friedrich Umber (born October 19, 1871 in Halle (Saale) , † 1946 in Madrid ) was a German doctor (internist).
Umber was the son of the private scholar Friedrich Umber in Halle and Marie Frey. He was a student of Bernhard Naunyn in Strasbourg and Salkowski in Berlin. He was senior physician under C. Gerhardt at the Charité and in 1903 became the medical director of the medical department of the municipal hospital in Altona. In 1912 he took over the 1st department of the City Hospital Westend in Berlin. He was also a professor. During the time of National Socialism he was not in the NSDAP, but neither was he critical of the system. From 1941 to 1945 he was chairman of the Berlin Medical Society . When the hospital became a reserve hospital during World War II, he ensured the continued care of the diabetics among civilians. In May 1944 he did not return after a trip to Spain and died in Spain in 1946.
His research focus was nutrition and metabolic diseases, especially diabetes mellitus and gout . In the case of gout, he contradicted the widespread view of the time that its cause was primarily to be found in the kidneys and experimentally demonstrated that it was deposited in tissues. He also dealt with liver and gallbladder diseases (contribution to the manual of internal medicine , 1st edition 1914). This also applied to the immediate period after the First World War, when he could blame the glycogen depletion of the liver for the then increasing liver atrophy.
He was known for his textbook on nutrition and metabolic diseases, which first appeared in 1909.
His sister Maria married Georg Klemperer .
Fonts
- Textbook on nutrition and metabolic diseases for doctors and students, Urban & Schwarzenberg 1909, 3rd edition 1925
- Metabolic diseases in practice: diabetes mellitus and insipidus, gout, obesity and anorexia, JF Lehmanns 1925, 3rd edition 1939
Web links
- Friedrich Umber on his 70th birthday , German Medical Weekly, October 24, 1941
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the DRK clinics in Berlin, the time of National Socialism
- ^ Entry by Georg Klemperer , NDB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Umber, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German internist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1946 |
| Place of death | Madrid |