Harry Sure

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Harry Sure, 1943

Harry Safe , (born September 11, 1889 in Vienna , † December 9, 1974 in Chicago ) was an Austrian / American dentist and scientist.

Life

Harry Safe was born in Vienna on September 11, 1889. After graduating from the Staatsgymnasium in 1907, he studied human medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate on March 13, 1913 as a doctor of general medicine. During his studies, he worked as a demonstrator at the I. Anatomical Institute under Julius Tandler from 1911 to 1913 and remained loyal to this field throughout his life. After completing his studies, Harry Safe decided to continue his career as a dentist . The years as an assistant at the dental institute from 1914 to 1920 were interrupted by 3 years of military service as a military doctor. In 1920 Harry Safe completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in dentistry and was appointed associate professor in 1933, where he worked in clinical practice, teaching and research. In 1938 he was expelled from the Medical University of Vienna under National Socialism for racist reasons and his Venia legendi was revoked. The entire Jewish university staff was laid off, such as the dentists Balint Orbán (1899–1960), Rudolf Kronfeld (1901–1940), Bernhard Gottlieb (1885–1950), Joseph Peter Weinmann (1896–1960) and Albin Oppenheim (1875–1945) . They were representatives of the famous "Viennese School" founded in 1923, which achieved worldwide fame through the publications of microscopic studies of periodontal diseases using human autopsy material. Their names are not known to many in this country, they only achieved great fame in America and their scientific activities were highly valued and honored many times. Sure emigrated to Great Britain, where he was not licensed as a practicing dentist. He traveled on to the United States, where he found a position as assistant professor of neuroanatomy at the Chicago Medical School from June 1939 . Harry Safe died at the age of 85 on December 9, 1974 in Chicago. He left behind his second wife, but no children.

Scientific career

In 1920, in his textbook “Anatomy and Technique of Central Anesthesia in the Oral Cavity”, he described the exact procedure for performing the various local anesthesia in the oral area, which was adopted by many dentists. Safe's work laid the foundation for teaching oral anatomy in the dental curriculum for decades. Orthodontists, took up his findings on the growth of the head and face.

From 1942 he became head of the Institute for Anatomy and Histology at the Loyola University School of Dentistry in Chicago, where he retired in 1960. In the course of his career from 1911 to 1970, Harry Safe published around 145 scientific articles in renowned specialist journals worldwide, in which he dealt with all fields of dentistry. There are also 6 textbooks, 4 in German and 2 in English, a book contribution to a textbook for dentistry, and a textbook that he published in the 5th edition after the death of his colleague Balint Orban (1960). His work "Oral anatomy" was published in 4 languages ​​and for many decades became the standard textbook for anatomy for dental students in many countries. In 1988 it was published in its 8th edition. With numerous development studies of bones and jaws, he gained wide recognition among orthodontists .

He studied and understood the complexities of many scientific disciplines, including anthropology , applied head, neck and mouth anatomy, biology , bone metabolism , comparative anatomy, embryology , endocrinology , entomology , evolutionary biology , histology , occlusion , pathology and physiology . His collaboration with Balint Orbán and Joseph Weinmann was particularly productive. As a guest lecturer, he lectured to dentists, medical professionals and experts around the world for decades. He had the rare didactic ability to depict the human body clearly. Several of his books, Oral Anatomy (1949), Bone and Bones (1944), and Oral Histology and Embryology (1962, 1966, 1972) became authoritative textbooks for dentists around the world.

Honors

  • 1968: Albert H. Ketcham memorial award

Publications (selection)

  • About tooth extraction, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, 1937
  • General and local anesthesia in dentistry, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, 1936
  • Anatomy for dentists, Julius Springer, Berlin 1928
  • Anatomy and technology of conduction anesthesia in the oral cavity, J. Springer, Berlin 1920, 1925
  • Anatomical investigations on skulls with anomalies in the position of the teeth, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, 1920
  • Anatomy for Dentists, 1928.
  • Bone and bones: fundamentals of bone biology 1944
  • Dental science handbook: a manual of information about dental science and dental practice prepared primarily for those in vocations other than dentistry
  • Disorders of the temporomandibular joint: diagnosis, management, relation to occlusion of teeth
  • Masticatory apparatus in the giant panda and the bears, 1944
  • The adaptive chin
  • About tooth pulling

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harry Safe: Anatomy and technology of central anesthesia in the area of ​​the oral cavity: A textbook for the general dentist . Springer-Verlag, March 7, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-92263-3 .
  2. ^ Presentation of the Albert H. Ketcham memorial award to Harry Safe by Nathan Gaston, president of the American Board of Orthodontics. In: American Journal of Orthodontics. 54, 1968, p. 380, doi : 10.1016 / 0002-9416 (68) 90306-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Sure Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American dentist and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1974
Place of death Chicago