Josef Novak (gynecologist)

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Josef Novak also spelled Joseph Novak (born February 28, 1879 in Hostomitz , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , today the Czech Republic ; † December 29, 1983 in Greenwich , Connecticut , USA ) was an Austrian-American gynecologist .

Life

Born in Central Bohemia and belonging to the Jewish religious community, Josef Novak turned to studying medicine at the Karl Ferdinand University there after graduating from high school in Prague in 1897 ; on June 8, 1903, he received his doctorate as Dr. med. Josef Novak then took up an assistant position there at the Propaedeutic Clinic, after which he switched to the Rudolfinerhaus in Vienna as a secondary doctor .

After working as an internal doctor at the Second University Women's Clinic in Vienna, Josef Novak took on a position as an assistant doctor in the gynecological department of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Outpatient Clinic and Jubilee Hospital.In spring 1916 , he qualified as a private lecturer in gynecology at the university Vienna , in 1924 he was promoted to titular associate professor . In addition, Novak held memberships in the Society of Doctors in Vienna , in the Austrian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics and in the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics .

Josef Novak, who in the winter semester of the 1937/38 lecture Obstetric surgery Phantom and obstetric seminar and in the summer semester 1938 those Obstetric surgery course at Phantom held, was named after the port persecuted on racial grounds. After his Venia Legendi was revoked, he fled to Prague, later to Weybridge in Great Britain , from where he moved to New York City . The married father of one daughter last lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Josef Novak's research areas spanned metabolism , functional diseases and internal secretion .

Fonts

  • About the importance of the female genitals for the whole organism. In: Lothar Frankl-Hochwart, Albert Blau: The diseases of the female genital in relation to internal medicine, Volume 1, Vienna [u. a.], Hölder, 1912
  • About the mutual relationships between constitutional anomalies and changes in the female genitalia. In: Gynaekologische Rundschau Central Organ for Obstetrics and Women's Diseases, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, 1912, p. 674 ff.
  • Pathology and therapy of tuberculosis of the female genital apparatus. In: Ernst Loewenstein: Handbook of Total Tuberculosis Therapy, Volume II, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna, 1923
  • The pathology and therapy of female sterility, J. Springer, Vienna, 1924
  • Pathology and therapy of genital fluorine, J. Springer, Vienna, 1925
  • Relationships between ear diseases and female genitals, nose and genitals, pharynx and genitals, larynx and genitals, female genitals and muscles, bone system and female genitals, female genitals to the digestive tract, eye diseases and genitals, skin and female genitals. In: Josef Halban , Ludwig Seitz : Biology and pathology of women: a handbook of gynecology and obstetrics, Volume 7, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin [u. a.], 1927, p. 827 ff.
  • Menstruation and its disorders, J. Springer, Vienna, Berlin, 1928
  • About the relationship between infectious diseases and normal and pathological changes in the female genitals, between the nervous system and genitals. In: Josef Halban, Ludwig Seitz: Biology and pathology of women: a handbook of gynecology and obstetrics, Volume 8, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin [u. a.], 1928, p. 1063. ff.

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SURNAME Novak, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Novak, Joseph (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hostomitz , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , today the Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1983
Place of death Greenwich , Connecticut , USA