Georg Joachimoglu

Georg Joachimoglu (German for Greek Γεώργιος Χ. Ιωακείμογλου Georgios Ch. Ioakimoglou , English also George Joachimoglu ; * December 28, 1887 in Koula ; † 1979 in Athens ) was a Greek pharmacologist and university professor.

biography

Joachimoglu came from a Greek merchant family. He attended high school in Smyrna , which he left in July 1905 with the secondary school leaving certificate. He then studied medicine at the University of Berlin for ten semesters . In January 1911 he received his doctorate with experimental contributions to anaphylaxis with Arthur Heffter . After a short time as a doctor in Smyrna, he came back to Berlin, where he worked as an assistant to Emil Fischer for two years and studied chemistry . From 1913 he worked as an assistant under Arthur Heffter at the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Berlin, where he also received his habilitation in 1918.

In September 1920, during the occupation of Smyrna, he was called to Smyrna to support Constantin Carathéodory in organizing the University of Smyrna and to accept the professorship for hygiene and microbiology . Due to the expulsion of the Greeks in the Greco-Turkish war and the fire of Smyrna in September 1922, Joachimoglu came to Berlin with his mother, his widowed sister and their two children.

When Heffter became rector in 1923 and later fell ill, Joachimoglu was appointed associate professor for experimental pharmacology and took over the management of the pharmacological institute until Paul Trendelenburg was appointed in 1927.

From 1928 to 1958 Joachimoglu was a full professor at the University of Athens and headed the Pharmacological Institute there. In 1929 he was elected for life member of the Academy of Athens . From 1935 he headed the Supreme Health Council of Greece for twenty years.

Joachimoglu was from 1958 a member of the Permanent Central Narcotics Board and from 1963 President of the Drug Supervisory Body of the UN. He resigned in March 1968 when these two bodies were merged to form the International Narcotics Control Council .

The University of Hamburg awarded Georg Joachimoglu the gold medal of the medical faculty.

literature

• Μιχαήλ Κ. Στεφανίδης (Michail K. Stefanidis): Ιστορία της Φυσικομαθηματικής Σχολής (= Εκατονταετηρίς 1837-1937. Τόμος Ε '). Πυρσός, Athens 1948 ( digitized version ).
• Fritz Eichholtz : On the 70th birthday of Professor Dr. Georg Joachimoglu. In: drug research . Vol. 7 (1957), pp. 735 f.
• Τιμητικός τόμος επί τη εβδομηκονταετηρίδι Γεωργίου Ιωακείμογλου. Athens 1959 (commemorative publication).
• Professor Joachimoglu retires from international narcotics control organs. In: Bulletin on Narcotics. 1968, no. 2, p. 43 f. ( online ).
• Σπύρος Γερ. Μαρκέτος (Spyros Ger. Marketos): Ιστορία της Ιατρικής του 20ού αιώνα. Οι Έλληνες πρωτοπόροι: Γεώργιος Χ. Ιωακείμογλου 1887–1979 ( History of medicine in the 20th century. The Greek pioneers… ). Ζήτα (Zita), Athens 2000.
• Karl M. Einhäupl , Detlev Ganten , Jakob Hein (eds.): 300 years of Charité - as reflected in their institutes. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 161 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog card with biographical information on the dissertation: Experimental contributions to anaphylaxis. In: Journal of Immunology Research and Experimental Therapy. Tl. 1, Vol. 8, H. 4. Retrieved on February 21, 2015.