Heinrich Lohe
Heinrich Löhe (born August 26, 1877 in Ahaus , Westphalia, † May 9, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German dermatologist and university professor .
Career
Löhe came as the son of the government and school councilor Karl Löhe and Christine Löhe, geb. Trimborn, to the world. He passed his matriculation examination at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne, studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education from 1897 to 1901 and initially worked as a military doctor. In 1903 he received his doctorate in Bonn, then went back to Berlin, worked from 1905 to 1909 with Edmund Lesser at the University Skin Polyclinic and from 1910 to 1912 with Johannes Orth at the University's Institute of Pathology. He returned to the Dermatology Clinic in 1912 as Lesser's assistant. After habilitation in dermatology in 1915 at the University of Berlin and participation in the First World War, he was appointed associate professor in 1918. In the following year, Georg Arndt (1874–1929) was appointed senior physician at the university dermatology clinic. From 1925 on he was the doctor in charge and later director of the dermatological department of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital .
As a general physician and consulting dermatologist at the Army Sanitary Inspector , he was a member of the Scientific Senate of Army Health Services from August 1942. After the end of the Second World War in 1945 he was appointed full professor of dermatology and director of the University Dermatology Clinic at Charité . He retired in 1951. In 1956 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
The focus of his scientific work was experimental work on syphilis , clinical-histological work on the bone system in congenital syphilis and studies on the clinical and treatment of cancer and leprosy .
From 1946 on he was editor of the Dermatological Weekly .
Heinrich Löhe was married to Emma Minna Löhe geb. Orth, the adopted daughter of Johannes Orth . They had three children together, Hans Karl Rolf Löhe (1910–1987), Karl Löhe (1914–1942) and Annelise Löhe (1918–2009). Heinrich Löhe is buried with Johannes Orth in the family grave of honor in the Grunewald cemetery.
Honors
Löhe was an honorary member of several domestic and foreign scientific societies. In 1952 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
literature
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
- I. Fischer (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. - Berlin [et al.]: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932-1933
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 377
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löhe, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dermatologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ahaus , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1961 |
| Place of death | Berlin |