Isidor Fischer

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Isidor Fischer (born September 20, 1868 in Vienna , † January 23, 1943 in Bristol ) was an Austrian gynecologist and medical historian .

Live and act

Fischer studied at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1892. After training as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, he became head of the Charité women's health institute in Vienna from 1897 .

In 1914 he qualified as a professor at the University of Vienna for the subject of the history of medicine . The focus of Fischer's medical-historical research was the history of gynecology and obstetrics . He achieved lasting effects through his Biographical Lexicon , which established itself as the standard work of German medical historiography.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , Fischer was dismissed from the University of Vienna; In 1938 he emigrated to England, leaving behind his medical practice, extensive library and all his belongings, where he died in 1943 in poverty and abandonment.

Fonts

  • as publisher: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . 2 volumes. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1932–1933; 2nd and 3rd, unchanged edition Munich and Berlin 1962.
    • and Peter Voswinckel: Biographical Lexicon of the Outstanding Doctors of the Last Fifty Years. Volume III Supplements and Supplements. Abu-grain. Olms - Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hildesheim 2002 ISBN 978-3487116594 (Vol. IV not yet published)
  • History of obstetrics in Vienna. Leipzig / Vienna 1909.
  • History of gynecology. In: Biology and Pathology of Women. Edited by J. Halban and L. Seitz , Volume I, Berlin and Vienna 1923, pp. 1–202.
  • On the history of therapy . Springer, Vienna 1925
  • The gynecology in Dioscurides and Pliny. Springer, Vienna 1927
  • Theodor Billroth and his contemporaries. In letters to Billroth. From the archive of the Society of Doctors in Vienna . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1929
  • History of Jewish doctors from the earliest Middle Ages to equality . Krauss, Samuel. Publishing house d. AS Bettelheim-Stiftg, Vienna 1930
  • The proper names in disease terminology. Perles, Vienna 1931
  • Vienna's doctors and the freedom movement of 1848 . Publishing house of the "Ars Medici", Vienna 1935
  • History of the Society of Doctors in Vienna 1837–1937 . Springer, Vienna 1938 (anonymous)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Schmidt: Fischer, Isidor. 2005, p. 403.
  2. ↑ Bernhard vom Brocke : Isidor Fischer , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck Munich, pp. 134–135; Medical glossary. From antiquity to the present , 2nd ed. 2001, pp. 113–114; 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin-New York, p. 119; doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Isidore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1943
Place of death Bristol