Hugo Meyer-Delius

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Hugo Ignacio German Meyer-Delius (born June 3, 1877 in Victoria de Durango , Mexico , † October 27, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German pediatrician .

Life

Meyer-Delius was born in Mexico and studied at universities in Liverpool , Freiburg , Berlin and Bonn from 1895 to 1901 . In 1902 he received his doctorate with the work A case of lymphosarcoma of the mediastinum with metastases at the base of the skull . Between 1901 and 1906 he completed clinical training, mostly at the St. Georg General Hospital and six months with Otto Heubner at the Berlin Charité .

Meyer-Delius supported efforts to build milk kitchens in Hamburg, which was implemented in 1904 by the Patriotic Society . From 1906 Meyer-Delius worked as a resident doctor in Hamburg and at the same time worked as an external doctor at the department for skin and venereal diseases of the St. Georg Hospital until 1912. In 1909 he became a board member of the Hamburg regional headquarters of the German Association for Infant and Child Protection.

The Eppendorf General Hospital started operations in 1889 . Since the hospital did not initially have a children's clinic, medical care for children was provided in pavilions. Hugo Meyer-Delius worked there as a "specialist doctor" since 1913. After his own position was advertised for this in January 1914, the pediatrician was given a six-year job as the sole applicant. Ludolf Brauer commissioned Meyer-Delius to plan the hospital's own children's department; However, the plans could not be implemented due to the outbreak of the First World War .

From 1914 to 1918 Meyer-Delius worked as a marine doctor. In September 1920 the doctor moved from the hospital in Eppendorf to a position as managing senior physician at the regional headquarters of the German Association for Infant and Child Protection and was accepted into the civil service in the same position in 1938. In 1949 he stopped working.

Honors

Hugo Meyer-Delius made a particular contribution to lowering infant and child mortality in Hamburg. In 1962 he received the Great Cross of Merit . In Hamburg-Langenhorn , Meyer-Delius-Platz has been a reminder of the physician who died in 1965 since 1968 .

Works

  • A case of mediastinal lymphosarcoma metastasized to the base of the skull . Chr. Lehmann's successor, Freiburg im Breisgau 1901, OCLC 35159393 .
  • Infant mortality in Hamburg in the years 1820–1950 . Girardet, Hamburg 1951, OCLC 248073661 .

literature

  • Kai Sammet: Meyer-Delius, Hugo . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 255-256 .
  • Kai Sammet: Hugo Meyer-Delius and the beginnings of paediatrics in the UKE . In: Executive Board of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (ed.): UKE news. Information for the employees of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . October 2010, p. 17 ( PDF on the website of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg panorama. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 8, 1962, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Delius, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer-Delius, Hugo Ignacio German (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria de Durango , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1965
Place of death Hamburg