Georg Rosenow

Georg Rosenow (born September 6, 1886 in Berlin , † January 10, 1985 in New York City ) was a German-American internist .

Life

Georg Rosenow devoted himself to the put-away Abitur a study of medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin before 1911. Dr. med. received his doctorate . In 1912 he took up a position as an assistant doctor at the medical clinic in Königsberg , at the Rosenow, who was subsequently appointed chief doctor, until 1929.

In 1919, Rosenow's habilitation in internal medicine took place at the University of Königsberg , where he initially held a private lectureship , and from 1922 an extraordinary professorship . Rosenow went to Königsberg because Ludwig Lichtheim, as one of the leading hematologists in German-speaking countries, taught the findings of the still living Ernst Neumann from the "Neumann School of Hematology " ( Max Askanazy , p. 371). When Lichtheim retired in 1912, Rosenow was now working and publishing on the blood pathology emanating from pluripotent blood stem cells . In doing so, he advocated the "Unitarian standpoint" of blood formation by Ernst Neumann, Ludwig Lichtheim and Artur Pappenheim , which stated that all blood cells also stem from a blood stem cell from which all blood cell rows differentiate themselves. After moving to the USA for political reasons, Rosenow remembered in 1967/1968 in the USA the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the bone marrow as a blood-forming organ and thus the birthplace of hematology in the 19th century in Königsberg.

In 1925 Rosenow was one of the founders of "Acta Hematologica" , later the "International Journal of Hematology" .

In 1936 he emigrated to Iraq , was appointed director of the Meir Elias Hospital in Baghdad before he went to the USA in 1939, where he worked as a hematologist at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York until he retired in 1959 . Rosenow's research focus was on the pathology of blood.

Honors

The Berlin Medical Society paid tribute to George Rosenow on the occasion of its 150th anniversary: ​​On June 17, 2011, Thomas Benter gave a lecture on George Rosenow's life's work on the subject of hematology under National Socialism, with special emphasis on the biographies of Hans Hirschfeld and George Rosenow .

As part of the cultural project Berlin 2013 Destroyed Diversity , a project is the publication Doctors Under the Swastika - The Berlin Medical Society under National Socialism .

Fonts

• Renal cysts and their relationship with the kidney corpuscles. Inaugural dissertation . Berlin 1911.
• Blood diseases; a presentation for practice. Springer, 1925.
• Focal infections of the oral cavity and their relationship to general diseases. Berlin Publishing House, 1930.
• Ernst Neumann. His Significance in Todays Hematology. In: Karger Gazette Basel. 15, 1967, p. 8.

literature

• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 8, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 398.
• Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 2: R-Z. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 , pp. 510, 511.
• M. Askanazy: Ernst Neumann. In: Verh. Dt. Ges. F. Pathol. 28, 1935, pp. 362-372.
• T. Benter: The hematology in National Socialism with special consideration of the biographies of Hans Hirschfeld and George Rosenow. Lecture on the anniversary event of the Berlin Medical Society in cooperation with the German Society for Hematology and Oncology and the Berlin Medical History Museum "100 Years of Pluripotent Blood Stem Cells", held at the Berlin Medical History Museum, Charité, on June 17, 2011.
• E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding, H. Conrad: Doctors under the swastika. The Berlin Medical Society under National Socialism. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89773-718-1 . (Biography about Rosenow p. 55)