Hans Sachs (doctor)
Hans Sachs (born June 6, 1877 in Kattowitz , † March 25, 1945 in Dublin ) was a German physician and serologist .
Life
Hans Sachs was the son of the businessman Elias Sachs in Katowice and his wife Flora Hausdorff . He went to the grammar schools of Katowice and Breslau, where he passed the final exam at the Johannesgymnasium in 1895 .
Sachs studied from 1895 at the universities of Freiburg , Breslau and Berlin , he received his doctorate after his dissertation on the behavior of laevulosis in metabolism in 1900 at the University of Leipzig . From 1905 he researched and worked at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1907 he became a professor there , and from 1914 also an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt / Main. In 1920 he went to Heidelberg as professor of the Institute for Immunity and Serum Research and Director of the Scientific Department of the Institute for Experimental Cancer Research . In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Science Academy .
In 1935 he was dismissed from the institute and the university as a Jew . Hans Sachs had to flee Germany in 1938, emigrated to Oxford and later to Dublin, where he died in 1945.
In 1905 he married Adelheid Sophie Charlotte Grelling (1884–1978), a daughter of Richard Grelling (1853–1929) and Margarethe Anna Simon (1862–1934). The couple had a son and a daughter. The mathematician Kurt Grelling (1886–1942) was his brother-in-law.
Honors
A street in Katowice was named after him ( Sachsstrasse , today's Ulica Jana Kochanowskiego).
literature
- Werner E. Gerabek : Sachs, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 332 ( digitized version ).
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Sachs in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Sachs: Sachs, Hans. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1279.
- ↑ Katowice - Starlings Katowice. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 11, 2017 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sachs, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German serologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katowice |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1945 |
| Place of death | Dublin |