Julius Bauer (medic, 1887)

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Julius Bauer (* 14. August 1887 in Nachod , Bohemia , † 8. May 1979 in Beverly Hills , California , United States ) was an Austrian-American internist and geneticist ( geneticist ).

Life

Family and education

Julius Bauer, the son of the Jewish lawyer Ludwig Bauer and his wife Clara, nee Schur, graduated from the Benedictine High School in Braunau in Bohemia in 1905 . As a result, he turned to the study of medicine at the University of Vienna , where he obtained the academic degree of Dr. on November 25, 1910 at the medical faculty. med.

Julius Bauer was married to Marianne Melitta, born Jokl (1885–1980) , a doctor and Romance writer from the Moravian Kremsier . The sons Franz Karl Adolf Ernst and Klaus Friedrich came from the marriage. Julius Bauer died in 1979 at the age of 91 in Beverly Hills, California.

Julius Bauer was the nephew of the wealthy textile manufacturer Philipp Bauer (1853-1913) and the cousin of Ida Bauer and Otto Bauer .

Professional background

After completing his studies, Julius Bauer took up a position as an aspirant with Edmund Neusser at the II. Medical University Clinic in Vienna, and he was also at the III. Medical University Clinic, headed by Adolf Strümpell , employed. In 1911, Julius Bauer moved to the Medical University Clinic in Innsbruck as an assistant doctor to Rudolf Schmidt . After several months of study in Paris in 1914, which he received as the winner of the Prix ​​Pierlot awarded by the Vienna Medical Faculty , he was employed in the internal department of the Vienna General Polyclinic , headed by Julius Mannaberg.

In 1919 Julius Bauer completed his habilitation in Vienna as a private lecturer for the subject of internal medicine, in 1926 he was promoted to associate professor , and in 1928 he was made head of the medical department of the general polyclinic. Bauer was successful in the areas of internal medicine, constitutional pathology and heredity , and warned against abuse by the National Socialist regime . Bauer's article, Dangerous Buzzwords from the field of hereditary biology , published on July 13, 1935 in the Swiss Medical Weekly , in which he criticized the mass suggestive expression of the anthropologist Friedrich Keiter in the journal for human inheritance and constitutional theory and other scientific colleagues as abuse who expressed hereditary biology , drew his exclusion from the German Society for Internal Medicine .

The after Austria's "Anschluss" on racial grounds persecuted, on 22 April 1938 and compulsory retirement from the University of Vienna displaced persons, was in 1938 with the support of two former patients of France to the United States to emigrate . In 1939 he received a professorship at Louisiana State University , in 1942 he moved in the same position to Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California . After he resigned there in 1961, he last taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles .

Publications (selection)

  • Lectures on general constitution and inheritance for students and doctors. J. Springer, Berlin 1921.
  • The constitutional disposition to internal illnesses. J. Springer, Berlin 1917.
  • Practical Consequences from Heredity. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna.
  • Internal secretion; their physiology, pathology and clinic. J. Springer, Berlin / Vienna 1927.
  • Dangerous catchwords from the field of hereditary biology. In: Swiss Medical Weekly. Volume 65, 1935, pp. 633-635.
  • The person behind the disease. Grune & Stratton, New York 1956.
  • Errant ways of human society. Vantage Press, New York 1961.
  • Medical cultural history of the 20th century as part of an autobiography. Maudrich, Vienna 1964.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 107 and 155.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American internist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Nachod , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1979
Place of death Beverly Hills , California , USA