Fritz Jacoby (doctor)

Fritz Jacoby (born January 14, 1902 in Berlin , † September 29, 1991 in Leeds ) was a German medic.

Life and activity

Jacoby was the son of a Jewish medical family. His father was a general practitioner in Berlin.

After attending a humanistic grammar school, Jacoby studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg from 1920. He received his license to practice medicine in 1926. He then worked for four years at the Rudolph Virchow Hospital in Berlin and then in the anatomical-pathological department of the Urban hospital. It was at this time that he first came into contact with research into tissue cultures.

After the National Socialists came to power in spring 1933, Jacoby was removed from civil service in June 1933 due to his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent. He emigrated to Great Britain, where he found a job at the Strangeways Laboratory at Cambridge University . Soon after, he moved to the Physiology Department of the same university, where he worked in the Histology Unit under Nevill Willmer and Joseph Barcroft, studying tissue cultures, an area in which he became a leading figure in Great Britain in the years that followed. In 1935 he moved to the Department of Physiology at the University of Birmingham , where he taught and researched until the end of the war. As early as 1937, this university awarded him a PhD for his research achievements.

After his emigration, Jacoby was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

In 1947 Jacoby was hired as a senior lecturer in histology at the University College of South Wales and Monmoutshire , Cardiff . He also worked part-time for the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Shortly before leaving this university, he donated the Jacoby Prize, which is awarded annually to promising undergraduate students in cytology and histochemistry.

In 1966 Jacoby received a professorship at the University of Wales . In 1969 he retired.

After his wife's death in 1990, Jacoby moved from Cardiff to Leeds, where he died in 1991.

Jacoby was a member of the Physiological Society and the Anatomical Society, as well as the European and American Tissue Culture Associations.

family

Jacoby had been married to Lilo Neumann († 1990), a nurse, to whom he had been engaged since 1931, since 1934. Both had two daughters (Edna, Helen) and one son (Michael).

Fonts

• "The Rate of Cell Division of Hen Monocytes in Vitro", in: Journal of Physiology , Vol. 90, 1937, 23P.
• "Further Observations on the Manner in Which Cell Division of Chick Fibroblasts in Affected by Embryo Juice", in: Journal of experimental Biology , vol. 14, p. 255.
• "On the Identity of Blood Monocytes and Tissue Macrophaes. Their Growth Rates in Vitro", 1938.
• "Synchronous Mitoses in a Binucleate Macrophage in Vitro", in: Journal of Physiology , Jg. 98, 1940, 6 P.
• The Anatomy of the Female Pelvis , 1943. (with CFV Smout)
• Gynaecological and Obstetrical Anatomy , 1948. (together with CFV Smout)
• "A Quantitative Analysis of the Growth of Pure Populations of Fowl Macrophages in Vitro", in: Exp. Cell Res. Suppl ', 1, 454
• Gynaecological and Obstetrical Anatomy and Functional Histology , 1953. (together with CFV Smout)
• Chapter "Ovarian Histochemistry" in Zuckerman's The Ovary , 1962.

literature

• JD Lever: In memoriam Professor Fritz Jacoby. In: Journal of anatomy. Volume 180 (Pt 2), April 1992, pp. 347-349, PMID 1506291 , PMC 1259683 (free full text).
• Obituary in Times October 24, 1991.

Web links

• Entry about Jacoby on the website of the Berlin Charité

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Fritz Jacoby on the special wanted list G: B. (Reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).