Josef Jadassohn

Josef Jadassohn

Josef Jadassohn (born September 10, 1863 in Liegnitz , † March 24, 1936 in Zurich ) was a German dermatologist . He founded an important handbook on skin and venereal diseases .

Life

Jadassohn was the son of a businessman and attended high school in Liegnitz. After studying medicine in Göttingen , Breslau , Heidelberg and Leipzig , Jadassohn received his doctorate in 1887 ( On the knowledge of Choleraroth ). From 1887 to 1892 he worked as an assistant doctor in the dermatological clinic in Breslau. From 1892 to 1896 he was primary doctor in the dermatological department of the Allerheiligen Hospital with Albert Neisser in Breslau. In 1895 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1896 he became an associate professor and director of the dermatological university clinic in Bern without prior habilitation, and in 1903 he became a full professor. The appointment proposals made by the medical faculties in Leipzig and Graz were rejected because of the Jewish origin of the evangelical Jadassohn. In 1917 he succeeded Albert Neisser as full professor in Breslau, retired in 1931 and emigrated to Switzerland in 1933, where he died in 1936. His son Werner Jadassohn (1897–1973) was also a dermatologist.

Merits

Jadassohn introduced laboratory methods in dermatology and was one of the first to use immunological techniques in the study of skin diseases. He contributed to the understanding of the immune pathology of tuberculosis and trichophytia . His work contributed to the creation of the Reich Law to Combat Venereal Diseases. Jadassohn was a member of the League of Nations hygiene commission . A year before his death in 1936, he was made an honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine . Josef Jadassohn founded the handbook of skin and venereal diseases . Several dermatological diseases and other syndromes are named after Jadassohn:

• J. Dermatitis (Pityriasis lichenoides chronica)
• J. Doeker disease (Myxoedema tuberosum)
• J. Franceschetti Syndrome ( Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome )
• J. disease (granulosis rubra nasi)
• J. Lewandowsky anomaly ( Pachyonychia congenita )
• J. (- Tieche) nevus (Blue nevus, Naevus caeruleus )
• J. Pellizzari's disease (anetoderma)
• Naevus sebaceus Jadassohn = Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims-Syndrome

Publications

• Skin Diseases (1901)
• Diseases of the penis and urethra
• About a peculiar disease of the nasal skin in children ("Granulosis rubra nasi") (1901)
• as editor: Handbook of skin and venereal diseases. Berlin 1927-1937; New edition Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1959–1970.

literature

• Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking physicians , Volume 1, Munich 2002, p. 304
• Hans H. Lauer:  Jadassohn, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 259 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Andreas Jens Reuland: Human experiments in the Weimar Republic . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1823-0 (plus dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2003) ( E-Text Chapter 3 without footnotes ( Memento from December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
• Urs Boschung : Jadassohn, Josef. In: Werner E. Gerabek u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 686 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Jadassohn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Urs Boschung: Jadassohn, Josef. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Who named it: Josef Jadassohn
• Obituary for Joseph Jadassohn . In: The Socialist Doctor , May 1936 digitized version