Johannes Gustav Adolf Jost

Johannes Gustav Adolf Jost (born May 1, 1872 in Berlin ; † November 1, 1948 there ) was a German veterinarian , doctor , dermatologist and university lecturer.

Life

Johannes Jost was born on May 8, 1872 as the son of master carpenter Carl Gustav Jost and Clara Charlotte Emilie Blocksdorf in Berlin, Luisenstadt . He attended the Luisenstädtische and Königliche Realgymnasium and the Königsstädtische Oberrealschule in Berlin. From 1890 he studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin and received his license to practice medicine as a veterinarian in 1894. 1900-1903 was a student of philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin enrolled and received his doctorate in 1903 for Dr. phil. at the University of Basel. At first he worked as a veterinarian in his own practice and as a municipal veterinarian in the Tiergarten Berlin. From 1903 to 1917 he studied medicine at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1917 for Dr. med. As a young man, he often traveled to Paris to see his uncle Georg Adolph Jost, who had fled to France for political reasons during the 1948 revolution. There she became engaged to his daughter and finally married his cousin Marguerite Charlotte Jost in Paris in 1896, their son Werner George Antony Johannes Jost was born in 1899 . His wife Marguerite died in 1905 and his son Werner grew up mostly in Paris and Berlin under the care of his mother's sister Laure Jost. In 1907 he married his second wife, Theresa Wolffheim, daughter of the wealthy Jewish businessman Georg Wolffheim from Berlin. Theresa's brother was the politician, author and trade unionist Fritz Wolffheim . From this marriage two more children, Karl-Heinz and Georg Wilhelm Jost emerged. This marriage ended in divorce in 1932 "because of an unhappy married life" and "racial differences". As a Freemason, Jost belonged to the St. John's Lodge "Friedrich Wilhelm for the Crowned Justice", a subsidiary of the Grand Lodge of Prussia (Royal York) in Berlin from 1914 to 1933. In 1933 Jost joined the NSDAP , and in the following year he was expelled from the party as a "high degree freemason".

Johannes Jost died in Berlin in 1948 and is buried in the family grave at the Luisenstadt cemetery .

activity

After studying veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Berlin, Johannes Jost received his license to practice medicine as a veterinarian in 1894. This was followed by activity as a veterinarian in his own practice in Berlin, Moabit , Thomasiusstraße. The focus was on the handling of the hauliers' horses. He also worked as the city veterinarian of the Berlin Zoological Garden and as a veterinarian of the slaughterhouse. From 1900 to 1903 he studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and obtained his doctorate from the University of Basel. phil. From 1913 to 1917 he completed a degree in human medicine, waived four semesters due to his studies in veterinary medicine, and obtained his doctorate in medicine. med. 1917 at the University of Berlin on the subject of nervous sequelae and changes in the mucous membrane of the airways in inhalation poisoning (inguinal dissertation, Berlin January 4, 1918). The University of Rostock asked Jost twice to take over from the chair for "comparative pathology " as an honorary professor, but this was rejected by him. He was recognized as a specialist in dermatology and venereology in 1920 and he opened a practice as a specialist in skin and venereal diseases in Friedrichstrasse 153 a (building of the Polish pharmacy). The patient clientele included a high proportion of patients with venereal diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea that were common in Berlin in the 1920s. A not inconsiderable proportion of the patients were also of international origin.

From 1921 he gave lectures on hygiene , sexual hygiene , sexual ethics and sex education at the Veterinary and Agricultural University in Berlin . In 1926 Johannes Jost completed his habilitation in the field of comparative pathology in humans and animals. For six years he continued lecturing as a private lecturer , and in 1932 he was finally appointed associate professor . From 1932 he also gave lectures on the pathology of venereal diseases . His special field of interest were venereal diseases and the experimental activity dealt mainly with the pathogen " Gonococcos Neisser ". The comparative pathology of human and veterinary medicine has always been a major focus of his work. On November 16, 1935, the Reich Minister of Science revoked his license to teach pathology, hygiene and dermatology, which had existed since 1928, due to his membership in the now banned Grand Lodge of Prussia. In his patients he observed that "the arteriosclerotics and hypertensive people from Bad Wiessee returned from the cure much cheaper than they did from Bad Tölz". When his son Werner Jost started working as a doctor in his practice in 1927, he decided in the same year to be one of the first spa doctors in Bad Wiessee am Tegernsee during the bathing season . After two years, his son Werner took over the branch in Bad Wiessee, and he returned permanently to Berlin and continued his medical work until his death in 1948.

Military career

1894 to 1895 as a one year old volunteer with the 1st Guard Dragoons Regiment and Guard Uhlan Regiment in Potsdam and Berlin. During the First World War he was in command as a staff veterinarian and field doctor, among other things, for the Eskadron Uhlan Regiment No. 10 and the Squadron King Jager on Horseback No. I on the Western Front (Battle of Longnyon , Stellundkampf around Verdun , Battle of Étain ). After the Battle of Verdun , he was awarded the Cross of Honor 2nd Class in September 1914. In 1917 he was appointed senior veterinarian to the War Office Department for People's Nutrition Issues.

Publications and scientific papers

• Diseases of young animals in comparison with human childhood diseases Jost J., Koch M., Handbook of general pathology and pathological anatomy of childhood, JF Bergmann Wiesbaden 1914
• About nervous sequelae and changes in the mucous membrane of the airways after inhalation poisoning. Inaugral dissertation at the University of Berlin, January 4, 1918
• Which bacteria are the Präputialblenorrhoe front of the dog and how the dog and other animals behave in transmission experiments with Neißer`schen gonococcal? Archive for Scientific and Practical Veterinary Medicine 1927 Vol. 55 H. 5/6
• The current state of research dourine the horse and the syphilis of man and the parallelism between these two diseases. Berlin 1925
• About eczema in humans and animals. XI International Dermatological Congress Budapest 1935
• Akariasis in two anthropoid monkeys and psoriasis in a juvenile gorilla, from the field of comparative pathology of the skin. Archive for Scientific and Practical Veterinary Medicine 1932 Vol. 65 H 4
• From the field of comparative pathology of the skin: Alopecia areata in raccoons and horses. Arch f. Animal health 65. Vol. 4. H. Springer 1932
• From the field of comparative pathology of the skin: eczematous skin diseases in wild animals, three observations (bear, monkey, ibex). Arch. F. Tierheilk 65 Vol. 4 Springer 1932
• A case of Lues congenita tarda Dermatological Weekly No. 47 1932
• A case of acute male gonorrhea with an unusual outcome. Dermatological Weekly No. 36 1932
• What is meant by satiety regimen for syphilis? Journal for Medical Training No. 16 1934
• Which is the most promising treatment for menopausal and post-menopausal dermatoses. Journal for Medical Training No. 23 1934
• Does the effect of an iodine preparation run parallel to iodine acne? Journal for Medical Training No. 1 1935
• Contribution to the study of blood development in embryonic cattle and sheep. Ingural thesis, University of Basel
• About ostitis fibrosa on horses / Johannes Jost. Special dr. ed. SN: SN, 1910. Print.
• Infectious diseases in animals that can be transmitted to humans ( snot , rot , foot and mouth disease , etc.) Med. Klinik 1935, no. 47 u. 49
• Can a syphilitic person get married? Journal for Medical Training 1937, No. 12
• When can a syphilitic person get married? Journal for Medical Training 1937, No. 17
• About the boil and its treatment. Journal for Medical Training 1937, No. 13
• About frost damage and its treatment. Journal for Medical Training 1937, No. 4
• Can foot and mouth disease spread to humans? Journal for Medical Training 1937, No. 12
• On the incidence of tuberculosis in dogs and cats. Magazine for meat u. Milchhygiene 1921, issue 15
• About the application of Ichthargans in veterinary medicine. Veterinary weekly 1904, 14

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolffheim, Fritz | Federal foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship. Accessed February 1, 2020 . 
2. ^ Ines Schulze: The veterinary training center Berlin between 1933 and 1945: The development of the institutes and clinics. (PDF) In: FU Belin Dissertations. Retrieved January 25, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Agricultural and Veterinary University Berlin (ed.): Personnel sheet for academic staff .
4. ^ Ines Schulze: The veterinary training center Berlin between 1933 and 1945: The development of the institutes and clinics . 2007 ( fu-berlin.de [accessed on January 23, 2020]).
5. ↑ GeDenkOrt.Charité - Science in Responsibility. Retrieved January 23, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Jost, Johannes: My life . 1943.
7. ↑ John. Jost, Max HW Koch: Diseases of young animals compared to human childhood diseases . 1 pl, p. [451] -649. JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1914 ( hathitrust.org [accessed January 23, 2020]).
8. ^ Library of the Free University of Berlin. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
9. ↑ J. Jost: Contribution to the theory of blood development . In: W. Waldeyer (Ed.): Archive for microscopic anatomy and development history . tape 61 . Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1903, p. 667-696 .
10. ↑ MBLWHOI Library: Archive for microscopic anatomy . Berlin, J. Springer [etc.], 1865 ( archive.org [accessed February 2, 2020]).
11. ^ Library of the Free University of Berlin. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .