Josef Sorgo

Josef Sorgo (born November 7, 1869 in Bleiburg , † January 25, 1950 in Vienna ) was an Austrian internist and pulmonologist .

Life

Sorgo studied at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1894. From 1895 to 1899 he was an intern at the 3rd Medical Clinic in the General Hospital with Leopold Schrötter von Kristelli , where he also worked as an assistant from 1899 to 1902. Inspired by his teacher and because of his internistic and laryngological training, Sorgo turned to research into tuberculosis , which was a widespread disease in Vienna at the time. In 1904 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine and from 1902 to 1919 was director and chief physician at the first tuberculosis clinic in Allandwhich he also co-founded. Subsequently, from 1919 to 1924 he was provisional, from 1924 to 1933 definitive head of department of the 2nd medical department at the Wilhelminenspital . He also temporarily headed the Invalidenanstalt for Tuberculosis in Wilhelminenberg Castle and from 1933 to 1938 the 2nd Medical Department of the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital .

Sorgo was a member of the Society of Doctors in Vienna (1897), honorary member of the Society for Internal Medicine, honorary president of the specialist group for diseases of the respiratory organs of the Vienna Medical Chamber and Councilor. After his death he was given an honorary grave in the Grinzing cemetery (group 3, number 36). The Sorgogasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him in 1963.

meaning

Josef Sorgo earned merit in creating pulmonology as an independent subspecies of internal medicine. He applied sunlight treatment to combat larynx tuberculosis , which gave impetus to the further development of modern heliotherapy for other tuberculosis foci as well. Anton Sattler is one of his students .

Fonts

• General treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and sanatorium treatment ; in: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, Volume 38, Number 29

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna Vol. 5 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997
• Gabriela Schmidt-Wyklicky:  Sorgo, Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 603 ( digitized version ).
• G. Winter:  Sorgo Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 431 f. (Direct links on p. 431 , p. 432 ).