Hans Kohn (physician)

Hans Nathan Kohn (born September 15, 1866 in Wassertrüdingen , † January 5, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German physician.

Life

Hans Kohn was born as the son of the businessman and city councilor David Kohn. He attended the St. Anna high school in Augsburg and studied at the universities of Erlangen (where he was also a member of the Corps Bavaria ), Kiel and Munich .

Hans Kohn wrote his dissertation at the Institute of Physiology under the guidance of the Erlangen physiologist Isidor Rosenthal . He received his doctorate on July 18, 1890.

Of 6 September 1892 to 10 October 1892, he served as cholera - auxiliary doctor working at the Hamburg hospital. Its 1893 publication postulated the existence of openings in the alveolar wall . His mentor Gustav Hauser suggested in 1894 that they be named "Kohn's Alveolar Pores".

From 1893 to 1896 he was an assistant doctor at the Urban Hospital in Berlin under Albert Fraenkel. From 1896 he had an independent practice for internal diseases and from January 1, 1907 was a prosector in Berlin at the hospital of the Jewish community and also prosector of the III. medical university clinic. In 1913 he was appointed professor.

Kohn was a long-time board member and librarian of the Berlin Medical Society (honorary member from 1932). In 1933 he was expelled from the board of directors and the company. From 1908 to 1921 Kohn was co-editor of the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift (Vol. 45–58). Later he wrote scientific articles especially on angina pectoris . On August 26, 1902, Kohn married Gertrud Malachowski.

Kohn died in Berlin in 1935. His necrology was given by the medical councilor Siegmund Vollmann.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HN Kohn: On the histology of indurating fibrinous pneumonia . Münchener Medicinische Wochenschrift 1893 40: 42-45
2. ↑ G. Hauser: About the Origin of the Fibrinous Infiltrate in Croupous Pneumonia . Contribution path. Anat. General path. 1894 15: 527-42
3. ^ Professor Hans Kohn's death notice in memory. CV newspaper of Jan 18, 1935 14:18

literature

• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Michael Hortsch: Dr. Hans Nathan Kohn - a Berlin Jewish doctor and researcher on the eve of National Socialism. Berlin Medical, 4th year, Aug. 2007, pp. 26–28.