Henryk Nowakowski

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Henryk Nowakowski (born December 31, 1913 in Berlin , † July 30, 1992 in Hamburg ) was a German internist, endocrinologist and oncologist.

Life

Henryk Nowakowski studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. On April 18, 1933 he was enrolled, in 1939 he received his license to practice medicine and received his doctorate . He began his internal training at the Oskar-Ziethen-Hospital with von Hoesslin in Berlin-Lichtenberg, he also worked as a trainee doctor in Lübeck with Karl Hansen and from November 1940 to mid-January 1941 at the Potsdam II Municipal Hospital under FK Störring (Potsdam-Babelsberg) active. In February 1942 he received the draft order to serve as a troop doctor in the German Wehrmacht , after joining the 29th Infantry Division he was transferred to the Smolensk area. As a doctor, he treated both soldiers of the Wehrmacht and, according to his own accounts, Soviet civilians. There he fell ill with typhus and in June 1942 was relocated to Belgium and then to northern France to recover.

After Benito Mussolini was deposed and the Allies landed in Sicily and southern Italy in 1943 , Henryk Nowakowski was relocated to Calabria with the unit, which had since been renamed the 29th Panzer Grenadier Division . He took part in the entire Italian campaign and ended up as a prisoner of war in 1945, first in the Ghedi / Northern Italy camp, then in the Bad Aibling / Upper Bavaria camp . In Italy, too, he was medically responsible not only as a medical officer for members of the Wehrmacht, but also for the Italian civilian population.

After his release from captivity in 1946, he received a scheduled assistant position at the Medical University Clinic in Jena at WHVeil on February 1 . There he decided, on the advice and support of his teacher Veil, for a scientific activity in the field of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology . From February 1948 to 1950 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Giessen and Göttingen. In 1950 he was one of the first Germans after the war to receive an invitation from the US Public Health Service to give a lecture tour to the USA, which took him to leading American endocrinologists at universities such as Harvard , Yale and Johns Hopkins .

Arthur Jores in Hamburg was his next point of contact for the then young subject of endocrinology . In 1951 he received a research assistant position at the University Clinic in Hamburg and became a specialist in internal medicine, where he completed his habilitation there in 1953, was appointed senior physician at the clinic in 1958, an associate professor in 1959 and senior physician in charge in 1965. After his teacher Jores retired, Nowakowski became managing director of the 2nd Medical Clinic at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf and represented the Ordinariate for Internal Medicine from 1968 to 1979, when he retired from his work at the University Clinic in accordance with his age.

His scientific activities and focus were endocrinology, later oncology with special emphasis on the endocrine therapy of hormone-dependent tumor diseases.

In 1979 he joined the oncological practice founded by Hartmut Horst and Walter Weber in Hamburg in Lerchenfeld and practiced there a. a. as a health insurance physician until 1988.

From 1980 until his death he was chairman of the Hamburg Cancer Society and from 1976 until his death member of the board of the Hamburg Tumor Center since its foundation.

In 1961 he married Magdalena Schönauer and the marriage had three children.

Nowakowski worked as a department director at the University Clinic and Polyclinic Hamburg-Eppendorf and held a chair in endocrinology .

Henryk Nowakowski died on July 30, 1992 after a short, serious illness in Hamburg, where he is buried in the forest cemetery in Wohldorf-Ohlstedt.

Awards

• 1959: Dr. Martini price
• 1974: Ludolf Brauer Medal
• 1978: Wilhelm Warner Prize
• 1959: Honorary member of the Sociedad de Endocrinologia y Metabologia Mexico
• 1965: Member of the Royal Society of Medicine, London
• 1966: Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
• 1988: Honorary member of the German Society for Endocrinology

Fonts (selection)

• with Arthur Jores: Practical Endocrinology and Hormone Therapy of Non-Endocrine Diseases . Thieme, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-13-355904-4 .
• Metabolic effects of steroid hormones . Springer, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg, 1955.
• Problems of Fetal Endocrinology . Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1956.
• Tissue and neurohormones . Springer, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg, 1962.
• Endocrine treatment of breast and prostate cancer . Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1961.
• Practical endocrinology and hormone therapy of non-endocrine diseases . Thieme, Stuttgart, 1964.
• with Arthur Jores: Practical Endocrinology . Thieme, Stuttgart 1960.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ärzteblatt (PDF; 46 kB) issue 37, September 11, 1992.
2. ↑ according to the information given by the cemetery administration on August 9, 2016: grave not detectable