Kathe Beutler

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Käthe Beutler (born Italian ; born October 11, 1896 in Berlin ; † February 7, 1999 in La Jolla , California ) was an American pediatrician born in Germany .

Life

Käthe Italiener was the third child of the businessman Ludwig Italiener and his wife Anna, nee. Rothstein, born. She had two brothers, Karl (1889–1942; murdered in Mauthausen ) and Ernst (1894–1916; killed in the First World War ).

Käthe Italiener began studying medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin in 1917 , completed her studies in the minimum time and completed her physics course in March 1920. In 1923 she did her doctorate on the subject of "History on the concept of tone from antiquity to Virchow" with Friedrich Kraus (1858–1936), the director of the Charité's Second Medical Clinic . She received her license to practice medicine on May 23, 1924 and decided to continue training in pediatrics . As part of her specialist training, she went to Erich Müller at the Friedrichs orphanage in Berlin-Rummelsburg, where she published a paper on the treatment of syphilitic newborns with Salvarsan .

In 1925, Käthe Italiener married the doctor Alfred Beutler. In the same year, her husband opened a practice for internal medicine and radiology at Reichskanzlerplatz 2, where she practiced as a pediatrician from 1927. After the National Socialists came to power , Käthe Beutler lost her health insurance license as a Jewish doctor in July 1933 . As the living conditions for Jewish citizens in Germany deteriorated more and more, the family emigrated to the USA in December 1935. Käthe passed the American state examination there and opened a pediatric practice in 1937. After the death of her husband, she moved to the family of her son Ernest . She died on February 7, 1999 in La Jolla, California.

Stumbling block for Käthe Beutler

In 2016, a stumbling block for Käthe Beutler was laid in front of her former practice at Theodor-Heuss-Platz 2 in Berlin-Westend .

The Berlin Institute for Health Research (BIH) named a new clinic and research building after Käthe Beutler in 2017.

Publications

  • Käthe Italiener: History on the concept of tone from antiquity to Virchow. Medical dissertation, 1924, Library Humboldt University Berlin.
  • Käthe Italiener: Our success with high doses of Neosalvarsand in the treatment of congenital syphilis. Klinische Wochenschrift 3 (14, 1924), pp. 577-579.

family

A son of Käthe Beutler, Ernest Beutler (1928–2008), was also a physician and is considered a pioneer in hematology. A grandson of Käthe Beutler and Ernest Beutler's son, Bruce Beutler , was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011 for his work on toll-like receptors .

literature

  • Sabine Hildebrandt: Käthe Beutler (1896–1999): A Jewish pediatrician from Berlin . Hentrich & Hentrich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95565-313-2
  • Sabine Hildebrandt et al .: Dr. Käthe Beutler, 1896–1999: A German Born Jewish Physician and Her Family Between Science, Politics and Prejudice. In: Medical History Journal. Volume 54, No. 4, 2019, pp. 294–346, doi: 10.25162 / mhj-2019-0009 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mechthild Küppers: The grandmother seemed "Germanic" to him. FAZ, February 13, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Search result of the database of Jewish paediatricians. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Stumbling blocks in Berlin | Places & biographies of the stumbling blocks in Berlin. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Start of construction work for BIH research building | MDC Berlin. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  5. ^ Sabine Hildebrandt: Käthe Beutler (1896–1999) . ( hentrichhentrich.de [accessed June 15, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Beutler, Kathe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Italian, Käthe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jewish pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1999
Place of death La Jolla , California