Georg Ludwig Dreyfus

Georg Ludwig Dreyfus (born April 25, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main ; died March 6, 1957 in Zurich ) was a German doctor and university professor who taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt .

Life

Dreyfus's father, Isaac Dreyfus (1849–1909), was a banker and partner in the J. Dreyfus & Co. banking house . He was on the board of the Israelite Community and the Israelite Orphanage in Frankfurt. The mother Rosalie Anna Levy came from France. Dreyfus had two siblings, the art historian Albert Dreyfus (1876–1945) and the banker Willy Dreyfus (1885–1977).

Dreyfus passed his matriculation examination in the Wöhlerschule in 1897 . From 1899 he studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1904 he was granted his license to practice medicine in Heidelberg and completed his studies in 1905 with a doctorate under Wilhelm Erb .

From 1904 Dreyfus worked as an assistant at the Psychiatric University Clinic Heidelberg , from 1907 at the University Clinic Heidelberg . In 1908 he moved to Hermann Oppenheim in Berlin . At the University Hospital Frankfurt , he worked from 1910 when Alfred Schwenkenbecher . In World War I, Dreyfus deputy director of the university hospital was. In 1916, after his habilitation, he became a private lecturer and in 1921 an associate professor. In the same year he became the director of the polyclinic for the mentally ill of the city hospital.

In 1922 Georg L. Dreyfus became a leading member of the Keren Hayesod organization , which was supposed to build up the Land of Israel . As a Jewish university lecturer, he was affected by the 1933 law to restore the civil service and was dismissed both as a professor and from the city service. In 1933 Dreyfus emigrated to Switzerland, where he had a private practice until his death in 1957.

Dreyfus had married in September 1905. The couple had a daughter and a son.

Publications (selection)

• Therapy for Graves' disease in recent years . M. Perles, Vienna 1905 (dissertation).
• Melancholy, a state of manic-depressive insanity. A clinical study . Jena 1907.
• About nervous dyspepsia. Psychiatric examinations from the medical clinic in Heidelberg . Jena 1908.
• Treatment of Tetanus . Berlin 1914.
• Salvarsan sodium and its practical application. In: Munich medical weekly. Volume 62, 1915, pp. 178-180.
• Isolated pupillary disorder and cerebrospinal fluid. A contribution to the pathology of syphilis of the nervous system . Jena 1921.

literature

• Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 66 ff .