Hans Heinrich Jantsch

Hans Heinrich Jantsch (born November 15, 1918 in Vienna , Austria; † February 10, 1994 ibid) was an Austrian doctor and university professor and medical director of the academies for physical medicine and occupational therapy in Vienna.

Life

Youth and education

Hans Jantsch was born as the only son of the chemist Gustav Jantsch and Hedwig Prade and grandson of Heinrich Prade . He spent his childhood first in Vienna, Reichenberg, Leverkusen , Karlsruhe and then in Bonn , where he started primary school. With his father's appointment as a university professor for analytical chemistry at the Graz University of Technology , he continued his school education there and passed the high school diploma with distinction in 1937.

Work in the armed forces

He then volunteered for one year in the Austrian army and was not allowed to disarm in 1938. First, he should be trained as an officer in the Jüterbog artillery officers ' school. That was canceled because he was considered politically unreliable.

After deployments at the front in Poland and France , he was assigned to study medicine as a medical officer candidate in 1941 . In addition to his studies, he had to work as a medical sergeant in the XXI reserve hospital, today's hospital of the merciful brothers, and was trained there as an X-ray assistant. As part of this activity, Hans Jantsch fell ill with open pulmonary tuberculosis in 1942 , which led to his discharge from military service as a severely disabled person and to several stays in a pulmonary hospital . Together with his future wife Dr. Marlene Jantsch wrote countless scientific papers and books on behalf of Leopold Schönbauer (see below).

Work as a doctor

Since 1945 Hans Jantsch worked in the department of physical medicine, where Josef Kowarschik, who part of the. I. Head of the surgical university clinic (Klinik Schönbauer) in the Vienna General Hospital . In 1947 he received his doctorate in general medicine . In 1956, Hans Jantsch officially became head of the department for physical medicine at the Vienna General Hospital, where he headed the department for the sick Kowarschik from 1954. In 1959 he completed his habilitation in physical medicine. It was the first postdoctoral qualification for this subject in Austria and with it the specialist in physical medicine was created.

Work as a professor

In 1962, Jantsch officially took over the school for the physico-therapeutic service of Kowarschik as medical director, which he gradually expanded and transferred from a private school to a public school. In 1971, Hans Jantsch was instrumental in founding the occupational therapy school together with Rudolf Souceck and also took over its management. In 1971 he was awarded the title of associate professor. awarded in 1974 was transformed into a department of the professorship and in 1976 finally the call to o.Univ Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation primo et unico loco . In 1992, Hans Jantsch retired, but still remained a teacher and scientific director of the school for physical therapy and the school for occupational therapy, which were converted into academies under his direction. In addition, he was also the medical director of the X-ray technology and medical-technical academy as well as the school for medical-technical specialist service.

Others

Hans Jantsch was a member of the highest medical council in Austria and scientific advisor to the electrical medical factory Dr. Felix Schuhfried.

He had four children with Marlene Jantsch: Christine Nowotny, Wolfgang Jantsch , Hans Jantsch and Katharina Pils.

Works

• Medical Vienna, history, development, appreciation. By Leopold Schönauer, with significant contributions from Marlene and Hans Jantsch. Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1944.
• Live healthier - live longer. By Leopold Schönauer with significant contributions from Marlene and Hans Jantsch. Vienna: Europa Verlag - Forum Verlag. 1955.
• The Austrian hospital. By Leopold Schönauer with significant contributions from Marlene and Hans Jantsch. Vienna: Hollinek Verlag, 1958.
• Low-frequency currents for diagnostics and therapy , Hans Jantsch and Felix Schuhfried. Verlag Wilhelm Modrig, Vienna - Munich - Berlin, 1973
• Physical medicine. Robert Günther and Hans Jantsch, Springer Verlag, 1982 and. 2nd edition 1986. ISBN 3-540-17062-6 or ISBN 0-387-17062-6
• Textbook for physical medicine and rehabilitation , chapter: Low frequency currents in diagnostics and therapy. Editors: * KLSchmidt, H. Drexel and K.-A. Jochheim. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Jena, New York, 1995. ISBN 3-437-00797-1 .
• Numerous medical scientific papers.