Joseph Berberich

Joseph Berberich - also Josef Berberich - (born May 20, 1897 in Großkrotzenburg ; died June 3, 1969 in New York City ) was a German ENT doctor who taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt .

Life

Berberich was born as the son of the Jewish Rosa Spiegel and Moses Berberich on May 20, 1897 in Großkrotzenburg am Main . He passed his matriculation examination in 1914 at the secondary school in Hanau . He then studied at the universities in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin . During the First World War , Berberich volunteered in the Uhlan Regiment No. 6 in Hanau, and then worked as a doctor in the army.

He obtained his license to practice medicine in Frankfurt in 1919. In the same year he received his doctorate from Victor Schmieden . From 1920 to 1924 Berberich worked in the pathological institute of Dr. Senckenberg Foundation . In 1923 he and S. Hirsch published the first angiograms made on living people (radiographic representation of the arteries and veins). In 1924 he first became an assistant and later a senior physician at the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in Frankfurt. His habilitation took place in Frankfurt in 1927. He became professor of ear medicine and rhinology. In 1930 he settled in Frankfurt as an ENT doctor. In 1933, as a Jew, his license to teach was revoked. He also had to give up his position as senior physician. However, he continued to run his medical practice until 1938.

In 1938 he emigrated to the United Kingdom . In 1940 he emigrated to the USA and settled in New York as an ear doctor.

Honors

Joseph-Berberich-Strasse in Großkrotzenburg is named after Berberich.

Fonts (selection)

Follow-up examinations of gastroenterostomies due to gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer with special consideration of X-ray diagnostics . Laupp, Tübingen 1920 (dissertation).
The middle ear cholesteatoma. Experimental and pathological-anatomical studies. Karger, Berlin 1927 ( habilitation thesis ).
Lipoid metabolism and endocrine system . In: Handbook of Internal Secretion . tape 3 . Leipzig 1929.
The treatment of ear, nose and throat diseases in general practice . Leipzig 1930.
Circulatory currents and degenerations . In: Felix Blumenfeld , Rudolf Jaffé (Hrsg.): Pathology of the upper air and food ways . Leipzig 1932.
as ed. with LP Spiro: Therapy of tuberculosis. Leiden 1937.

literature

Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 32-34 .
Berberich, Joseph , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 26
Berberich, Joseph , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 81

Web links

100 years University of Frankfurt. In: hr-online.de. October 18, 2014, accessed on January 18, 2016 (picture and short biography of Berberich).

Individual evidence

↑ Axel W. Bauer : Angiography. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 64.

personal data
SURNAME	Berberic, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ENT doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Großkrotzenburg
DATE OF DEATH	3rd June 1969
Place of death	New York City

[1] Axel W. Bauer : Angiography. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 64.