Karl Frik

Karl Frik (born November 30, 1878 in Schwäbisch Hall , † October 1, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German radiologist .

Life

After studying and doing his doctorate at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education , he began a military medical career. From 1905 to 1910 he was a troop doctor for the Schutztruppe in German South West Africa . He participated in the First World War as a medical officer.

In 1920 he retired from the Reichswehr and went to the I. Medical Clinic of the Charité of the University of Berlin . Here he took over the X-ray department in 1923. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Werner Siemens Institute for X-ray Research at the Moabit Hospital . From 1933 he worked as an honorary professor .

In 1939 he became full professor of radiology and radiology at the University of Berlin and at the same time took over the management of the newly founded institute for radiology, radiology and radiation therapy clinic at the Charité.

In the same year he received the Hermann Rieder Medal from the German Radiological Society . He used X-rays to treat cancers. He published numerous papers on therapeutic and diagnostic questions in radiology. In 1926 he founded the " Central Journal for All Radiology ". The German Radiology Society thanked him for his successful efforts to raise the academic reputation of radiology by appointing him as honorary chairman.

Grave of Karl Frik in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Karl Frik died on October 1, 1944 at the age of 65 in Berlin. He was first buried in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf near Berlin. The urn was later transferred to the Heerstraße cemetery in today's Westend district of Berlin (grave location: II-W-14 / U-7). He rests there at the side of his wife Erna, nee. Schultze (1884-1961).

He was the father of the radiologist Wolfgang Frik (1918–1994).

Fonts

The dependence of the excitability of the peripheral nerve on oxygen. Berlin 1904 (diss.)
Radiology in single representations. 3 vol., Berlin 1928–1931. (with Hans Heinrich Berg).
Annual report radiology of the Zentralblatt for the entire radiology . 13 vols. 1928-1940.

literature

German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2.A. Vol. 3, Munich 2003, p. 566.
Heinz Gorke. 75 years of the German Radiological Society. Stuttgart 1980.
Karl Max Einhäupl u. a .: 300 years of Charité Berlin as reflected in its institutes . Berlin 2010.

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . Pp. 195, 468.
^ Entry by Frik, Wolfgang . In: Renate Wittern (ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960. Part 2: Faculty of Medicine . Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 1999, ISBN 3-930357-30-5 . P. 47.

personal data
SURNAME	Frik, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Frik, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwäbisch Hall
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1944
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . Pp. 195, 468.

[2] Entry by Frik, Wolfgang . In: Renate Wittern (ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960. Part 2: Faculty of Medicine . Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 1999, ISBN 3-930357-30-5 . P. 47.