Hans Opitz

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Hans Opitz (born November 2, 1888 in Schlottnig , today Złotniki, near Liegnitz , † April 26, 1971 in Würzburg ) was a German pediatrician and university professor.

Life

Up to the Physikum 1909 Opitz studied in Leipzig , then in Breslau , where he passed the state examination in 1912 and on July 12, 1913 was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate . Initially working briefly as a ship's doctor, he became an assistant under Hans Schelble at the Bremen Children's Hospital in January 1914 . He did military service from October 3, 1914 to December 20, 1918, became assistant on January 1, 1919, then senior physician to Karl Stolte at the University Children's Hospital in Breslau. In 1922 he qualified as a professor in paediatrics. In 1924 he became senior physician with Adalbert Czerny at the Berlin University Children's Hospital of the Charité (1924-1931), in 1926 associate professor. He then headed the municipal children's clinic in Mainz from 1931 to 1933 and was at the top of the list of proposals for a full professorship at the German Medical Faculty in Prague in 1933 . He returned to Berlin in 1933 and, on December 1, 1933, took over the municipal nursing home in Berlin-Neukölln, which was opened in 1923 by the pediatrician of Jewish faith Arnold Orgler . Arnold Orgler had anticipated his imminent dismissal by resigning from the National Socialist legislation and was later able to emigrate to England. In December 1934, after Heinrich Finkelstein was dismissed and an interlude by Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer , who was also removed for racial reasons , he temporarily took over the Kaiser and Kaiserin Friedrich Children's Hospital in Berlin-Wedding from August 1935 onwards . After the war, he headed the Heidelberg Children's Clinic during the Bamberg crisis and, after its rehabilitation, became a full professor with a small tuberculosis ward and an outpatient department until his retirement in 1957. In 1952 he became the leading medical president of the new board of trustees of the nursing school at Heidelberg University . After his retirement he devoted himself to his editorial work and his writings.

Create

Opitz was scientifically active primarily in the field of childhood tuberculosis, diphtheria and its prophylaxis and blood diseases in childhood. He was the author of numerous textbook articles and co-editor, such as the “Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde” and, from 1933, the “Pediatric Practice” founded by Stefan Engel in 1930 , and from 1952 to 1970 the Zentralblatt für die Kinderheilkunde. In 1933, Hans Opitz coined the term Adipso-gigantism .

Honors

Hans Opitz, who had been a corresponding member of the Swiss Society for Pediatrics since 1951, was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1952 in the Pediatrics section . In 1959 he became an honorary member of the German Society for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. V.

Works

  • The blood diseases of childhood . Fischer's Med. Buchh., Kornfeld 1928
  • Diseases of the blood and the blood-forming organs In: Meinhard von Pfaundler (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde . Fourth edition. Supplementary work. Volume 1: Supplements to volumes 1–4 of the main work, FC Vogel, Leipzig 1942
  • with Franz Schmid: Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde, Volumes 1–2 , Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1963
  • with Theodor Hellbrügge and Franz Schmid: Pediatric Therapy , Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1966

literature

  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88835-2 , pp. 446-447
  • M. Professor Dr. Hans Opitz on his 75th birthday Der Tuberkulosearzt 17 (1963), 11, page 728
  • Hoffmann GF, Eckart WU, Osten P (ed.) Developments and perspectives in child and adolescent medicine - 150 years of pediatrics in Heidelberg Kirchheim Mainz 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive of the University of Prague, Berthold Epstein personnel file , appointment procedure
  2. ↑ Harry Joe Aronowicz: From the municipal infant and maternity home to the children's clinic in Neukölln 1982 Diss. FU Berlin 1982
  3. ^ "History of the day", Clin. Wochenschr. 13 (1934) p. 1864; 14 (1935) p. 1232
  4. ^ Hans Opitz: For the 50th anniversary of the Städt. Kaiser and Kaiserin Friedrich Children's Hospital. Zschr ges Krkhs wes. 21 (1940) 2-12
  5. ↑ Buchge W. Der Springer-Verlag: Catalog of its magazines 1843-1992 Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1994
personal data
SURNAME Opitz, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlottnig
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1971
Place of death Wurzburg