Johann Veit

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Johann Veit

Johann Friedrich Otto Siegfried Veit , called Johann also Johannes (born June 17, 1852 in Berlin ; † June 2, 1917 with Schierke ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician . He held professorships at the universities of Berlin , Leiden , Erlangen and Halle .

Life

Vitus's father was Geh from a German-Jewish banker family . Medical Councilor Otto Siegfried Veit (1822–1883), a surgeon and obstetrician respected in Berlin. The mother Marie Friederike Pauline Malotki von Trzbiatowski came from a Pomeranian officer family .

Veit studied medicine at the University of Leipzig . While still a student, he took part in the Franco-German War as a member of the medical service in 1870/71 . 1874 doctorate he at Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University to Dr. med. After that he was an assistant doctor at the Royal Women's Clinic in Berlin until 1879, where he qualified as a professor in gynecology and obstetrics. At the same time he ran a private gynecological clinic from 1882 to 1896, which changed its location in Berlin several times. Up to 300 women were treated as inpatients every year. In 1893 Veit was appointed associate professor . In 1896 he followed the call of the University of Leiden . From there he went on study trips, including to Frankfurt am Main to Paul Ehrlich , in order to learn serological-biological working methods with him. In 1902 he accepted the call to the University of Erlangen and two years later in 1904 to the University of Halle , where he became dean of the medical faculty and also served as rector in 1911/12 .

Despite a heart attack in 1912, the physician , who had long since been discharged from the Landwehr , took over military duties again in the hospital commission in Halle from 1914. During a hike to the Brocken , he died of another heart attack.

children

Johann Vitus 1882 born in Halle daughter Charlotte Emilie Anna Veit was at the School of Applied Arts in Weimar student of de Henry van Velde . She married the German-Baltic agronomist Harald Woldemar Carlos von Rathlef in Halle (Saale) in 1922 , who was his first wife to the sculptor Harriet Ellen Siderovna von Rathlef-Keilmann .

Veit's son, born in Berlin in 1884, was the anatomist Otto Veit , who set up the Anatomical Institute of the University of Cologne and headed it until his retirement in 1957. Since he was a "quarter Jew" according to the Nuremberg race laws , he was dismissed as a university lecturer by the National Socialists on September 27, 1937 . After 1945 he was able to devote himself to the further development and reconstruction of his institute.

Act

Vitus' particular merit was the connection between immunology and gynecological practice and cancer treatment with radium . He also trained nurses and midwives for use in the Middle East .

Veit published mainly on the subject areas of the anatomy of the vagina and the female pelvis , as well as on uterine cancer and ectopic pregnancy . In addition to his contribution to the handbook of gynecology from 1896 to 1899, he published a textbook on obstetrics together with Robert Olshausen . Together with the German pathologist Carl Ruge , he is considered to be the first person to describe cervical cancer .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Johann Veit: Diseases of the female genital organs. Puerperal diseases . Enke, Erlangen 1867 (from: Handbuch der special Pathologie undherapie, Ed .: Rudolf Virchow . Second, increased and improved edition. Sixth volume, second division, second issue)
  • Carl Ruge , Johann Veit: On the pathology of the vaginal portion. Erosion and incipient cancer . Enke, Stuttgart, 1878 (from: Zeitschrift für Obstshülfe und Gynäkologie), urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-38633
  • Carl Ruge , Johann Veit: The cancer of the uterus . Enke, Stuttgart 1881, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-38646
  • Karl Schroeder : Textbook of obstetrics including pathology in pregnancy and the puerperium . Revised by R. Olshausen and J. Veit, Cohen, Bonn 1891.
  • Johann Veit (ed.): Handbook of Gynecology . Edited by Ernst Bumm and Georg Winter. Wiesbaden 1897.
  • Johann Veit: The importance of physical and mental health for marriage and the offspring . Federal pamphlets to maintain and increase the German people's strength. Knapp, Halle 1916.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Chr. Beig: Private hospitals in Berlin 1869-1914, on the history of a medical institution in the field of tension between private initiative and state control. Dissertation , Freie Universität Berlin 2003, pp. 139 ff.
  2. ↑ Entry on Johann Veit in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)

swell

  • Veit family tree: [1]
  • On the history of the Veit banking family: Bulletin of the Leo Baeck Institute, Page: vol. 13-16, p. 173
  • Jacob Jacobson: The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin, 1809-1851
personal data
SURNAME Veit, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veit, Johann Friedrich Otto Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1917
Place of death at Schierke