Julius Bauer (medic, 1879)

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Julius Isaac Bauer (born November 29, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 4, 1969 in Blackburn , England , Great Britain ) was a British pediatrician of German origin.

Life

Which the Jewish community belonging Frankfurt-born Julius Bauer turned to the High School to study medicine at the universities of Munich , Berlin and Strasbourg to. Following his license to practice medicine and his doctorate as Dr. med. in Strasbourg in 1903, Bauer began his specialist training as a pediatrician at the Kaiser- und Kaiserin-Friedrich Children's Hospital in Berlin with Adolf Aron Baginsky , which he completed in 1906.

After working in the laboratory with Paul Ehrlich at the Frankfurt Serum Institute and with Emil von Behring at the Hygiene Institute of the Philipps University in Marburg, he moved in 1907 as an assistant doctor to Arthur Schloßmann at the children's clinic of the newly founded Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . Appointed senior physician in 1910 , Bauer completed his habilitation the following year as a private lecturer in the fields of paediatrics and serology . In 1915 he was promoted to associate professor . In 1918, Julius Bauer followed the call to lead doctor at the private baby home in Hamburg, also known as the clinic for babies and toddlers, at Hochallee 1 in the Hamburg district of Harvestehude .

After the National Socialists came to power , he was persecuted for racist reasons and removed from his position in 1934. However, he was able to continue a private practice until 1938 . After he was temporarily taken into protective custody in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in November 1938 , he managed to emigrate to England in January 1939 via the Netherlands , from where he wanted to travel to the USA . When England entered the war in 1940 he was interned at the Onchan Internment Camp in Douglas on the Isle of Man . A subsequent request to the Finnish ambassador in London for a work permit in Finland was rejected by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

After his release from the internment camp, Julius Bauer had been assigned to a general practitioner in Redhill as a military assistant since 1942 ; he was only officially registered as a British doctor in 1948. Since 1944 he suffered from a serious eye condition that gradually made him blind. In 1953 he returned to Hamburg for a short time. Most recently he lived in Blackburn, where he died in the summer of 1969 at the age of 90.

Julius Bauer has written over 100 publications, several manual contributions and monographs on his special research areas of serology, the clinic of infectious diseases, health care , childhood tuberculosis and milk testing. The Bauer's reaction is named after him, a different reaction of the infant to breast milk and cow milk.

Publications (selection)

  • Clinical and experimental studies on the pathology and therapy of tuberculosis in childhood. C. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1909.

literature

  • Petra Bonavita, Carina Belser, Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium a. a .: The Jewish students at Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium, 1888–1933. Documentation accompanying the exhibition at Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium, am Tiergarten 6–8, 60316 Frankfurt / Main, March 19 - April 5, 2000. Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 16.
  • Eduard Seidler : Pediatricians 1933–1945. Disenfranchised - fled - murdered. Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-805-58284-6 , pp. 285 and 286, online via Google books

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