Hugo Hecht

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Hugo Hecht (born July 23, 1883 in Prague / Bohemia ; † February 1, 1970 in Cleveland ) was a German -American dermatologist and venereologist .

Life

Hugo Hecht, classmates Franz Kafka on humanistic state high school in Prague's Old Town , devoted himself to the Matura a study of medicine at the Karl-Ferdinand University , which he in 1906 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. After training as a specialist in skin and venereal diseases , Hugo Hecht completed his habilitation there in 1919, before becoming an extraordinary professor for dermatology and syphilidologywhich he completed by 1939. In addition, Hugo Hecht held the office of General Secretary of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases in Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1932. In addition, from 1919 to 1931 he was the first German communist member of the Prague city council.

Hecht emigrated to the USA in 1939, where he received a doctor's license in 1940 and was naturalized in 1942. He worked as a dermatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland until his retirement at the age of 80 . Hecht was also a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association, the Cleveland Dermatological Society, the American Academy of Dermatology, the Cleveland Astronomical Society, and other professional organizations.

Hugo Hecht published 195 articles in seven languages ​​in the fields of dermatology, serology and cancer research . Hecht made a name for himself as the developer of the Hecht reaction , a demonstrative method for the detection of syphilis, as well as the Hecht degree welfare test , a sample for the detection of iodine in urine.

Fonts

  • Spread of venereal diseases in secondary schools, Leipzig: JA Barth, 1908
  • Venereal diseases and alcohol, Berlin: Deutscher Arbeiter-Abstinentenbund, 1914
  • Beware of venereal diseases! : A reminder to the more mature youth, Leipzig: JA Barth, 1921
  • With Hans Haustein : Social importance, control, statistics of venereal diseases, Volume 22, In: Handbook of skin and venereal diseases, Berlin: Springer, 1927

Journal articles (selection)

In: The Socialist Doctor

  • The fight against venereal diseases in the Czechoslovak Republic. Volume 6 (1930), Issue 4, (October), pp. 173–178 Digitized
  • Abortion of the proletarian woman. Attempt a statistic. 8th year (1932) Issue 11–12 (November – December), pp. 201–206 digitized

In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift

  • Ten years of abortion treatment for syphilis. In: Dermatologische Wochenschrift. Volume 72, 1921, pp. 97-103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae, Volume 1, page 77, delivery, Research Center East Central Europe, 1995
  2. ↑ Hans-Gerd Koch (Ed.): "When Kafka came to meet me ...", In: Volume 529 of Wagenbach Taschenbuch, Wagenbach, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Pike, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dermatologist and venereologist of Bohemian origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1970
Place of death Cleveland