Karl Franz Klinke

Karl Franz Klinke (born September 11, 1897 in Breslau , † March 19, 1972 in Düsseldorf ) was a German pediatrician and professor of medicine. He was director of the children's clinic at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1956 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

biography

Klinke was a highly decorated officer in the First World War . He then studied medicine, passed his state examination in 1922 and obtained a doctorate in medicine. med. From 1922 he worked as an assistant to Karl Stolte at the University Children's Hospital in Breslau and from 1926 to 1928 as a Rockefeller Fellow at the physiological-chemical institute of Karl Spiro in Basel . He completed his habilitation in Breslau in 1927 on calcium research.

Klinke left the university in 1933 for political reasons and worked as a resident pediatrician in Breslau. In the Second World War he was again obliged to serve in the army and led a student company, but then came back to Wroclaw as a lecturer. On April 1, 1944, he was appointed to the chair of paediatrics at the University of Rostock . He held the ordinariate until 1947; from 1947 to 1951 he was director of the Charité children's clinic in Berlin. From 1951 he worked as a professor of paediatrics at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. Karl Stolte followed him in 1948 as professor in Rostock.

Works

• The mineral metabolism: psychology a. Pathology . Deuticke, Leipzig, Vienna 1931.
• Nutritional disorders in childhood . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1934.
• Diagnosis and clinic of congenital heart defects . Thieme, Leipzig 1950.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Franz Klinke in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Spiro, curriculum vitae. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
2. ^ Joachim Wolff: The Breslau University Children's Hospital. History and influence on German paediatrics . In: the pediatrician . 15th (32nd) year, No. 1 , 1984, p. 69-82 .
3. ↑ Karl Klinke, curriculum vitae. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .