Fritz Schiff (doctor)

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Fritz Schiff (born February 13, 1889 in Berlin ; † July 30, 1940 in New Rochelle , USA) was a German doctor who emigrated to the USA as a Jew due to the measures taken by the National Socialist regime under Adolf Hitler .

Life

Fritz Schiff completed his medical training with Ernst Friedberger in Berlin and Wilhelm Kolle in Bern . During the First World War he served as an epidemiologist and general practitioner for the German army in Asia Minor and became director of the bacteriological department at the Moabit hospital in 1919/1920 . In 1920 he received his habilitation in hygiene at the University of Greifswald and was also a lecturer there until 1922. He then went to the Friedrichshain Municipal Hospital , where he headed the bacteriological- serological department and published a number of internationally important papers on bacteriology and blood group testing. In addition to this activity, he taught at the Friedrich Wilhelms University, today's Humboldt University in Berlin , as a private lecturer in the subjects of bacteriology and hygiene.

When the National Socialists came to power under Adolf Hitler, Fritz Schiff was dismissed from all offices due to his Jewish descent in 1935, and his teaching license was revoked. He left Germany a year later and emigrated to the USA , where from 1940 he headed the bacteriological-serological department of the Beth Israel Hospital in New York City . He died in New Rochelle near New York in 1940 and published over 150 scientific papers mainly on the serology of blood groups in the course of his career.

Honor

A street in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain is named after Fritz Schiff . Since May 17, 1968, the German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology has been awarding the Fritz Schiff Prize in memory of the achievements of the physician.

Publications (selection)

  • The technique of blood group testing for clinicians and forensic doctors, including its application in anthropology and heredity and constitution research. Springer, Berlin 1926 (3rd edition 1932)
  • About the group-specific substances in the human body. Fischer, Jena 1931
  • About a peculiar serological factor in humans. Acta Societatis medicorum Fennicae 'Duodecim', Helsinki 1932
  • The blood groups and their areas of application. Springer, Berlin 1933
  • Blood grouping technic: A manual for clinicians, serologists, anthropologists, and students of legal and military medicine. Interscience Publishers, New York 1942

literature

  • Kathrin Chod u. a .: Berlin district lexicon Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7759-0474-3 .
  • Mathias Okroi: The blood group researcher Fritz Schiff (1889-1940). Life, work and impact of a Jewish German. Dissertation at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science at the University of Lübeck, Lübeck 2004.
  • Ship, Fritz. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume 2.2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1031.

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personal data
SURNAME Ship, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1940
Place of death New Rochelle , USA