Karl Eduard Cahn-Bronner
Karl Eduard Cahn-Bronner (born July 15, 1893 in Strasbourg ; died April 1977 in Chicago ) was a German internist who taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Illinois .
Life
Cahn-Bronner was born as the son of the medical councilor and long-time chief physician of the ironing hospital in Strasbourg, Arnold Cahn . While Cahn was of Jewish faith, his wife Lina Bronner was of Unitarian faith .
After Cahn-Bronner 1911 his matriculation examination completed at the Protestant school in Strasbourg, he began a study in natural sciences at the University of Strasbourg . After two semesters, he switched to studying medicine in Strasbourg and the University of Kiel . Cahn-Bronner passed his state examination in 1916 at the University of Strasbourg, where he obtained his license to practice medicine in 1917. In the same year he received his doctorate.
From 1914 to 1917, during the First World War, he was a field doctor at the Bürgerhospital in Strasbourg, which had an attached military hospital. From 1917 to 1918 he was an assistant doctor in the air force . In 1919, after brief employment at a Würzburg hospital , he moved to the Hygiene Institute in Frankfurt am Main as an assistant . In 1925 he became a private lecturer at Frankfurt University. At the hospital in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , he was also head of the internal department.
As the son of a Jewish father, the law for the restoration of the civil service in 1934 revoked his teaching license. Until 1937 he worked as a doctor in Bad Homburg. In 1937 Cahn-Bronner fled to Italy, where he found a job at the University of Pavia . In 1939 he was expelled from Italy and had to flee again, this time to the USA . There he worked from 1940 to 1958, eight years of which as a professor, at the University of Illinois in Chicago .
Works (selection)
- Treatment of pneumonia with parentral quinine injections . 1917 (dissertation).
- The Relationship Between Collodi Blood Lability and Immunity in Pulmonary Tuberculosis . Frankfurt am Main 1925 ( habilitation thesis ).
literature
- Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 58 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The life data of Karl Eduard Cahn-Bronner , in the US Social Security Death Register (SSDI); Retrieved June 17, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cahn-Bronner, Karl Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German internist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1977 |
| Place of death | Chicago |