Karl Grouven

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Karl Grouven (born January 21, 1872 in Düren , † June 21, 1936 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German dermatologist at the University of Halle.

Life

As the son of a Catholic factory owner, Grouven studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Since 1890 he was a member of the Corps Brunsviga Munich . In 1895 he passed the state examination in Bonn, where he was also awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate . He began his training in Bonn surgery ; However, he later switched to the dermatology clinic, where he worked with Joseph Doutrelepont on the most important infectious diseases of the time, tuberculosis and syphilis . 1900 habilitated himself as senior physician of Dermatology and Venereology. On March 30, 1910, he went to the University of Halle as a non-civil servant professor and became director of the Polyclinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases. Since there was still no independent clinic, Grouven bought two houses in Grünstraße (today's Ernst Kromayer-Straße), No. 5/6 and 7/8, in which he housed his private clinic, which opened in 1911, and the university outpatient clinic. The houses, spatially separated by the gate entrance, were not structurally connected to one another until the 1920s. In 1913 Grouven converted to the Protestant faith. During the First World War , Grouven was drafted into the reserve hospital in Halle in 1914 as a medical officer . In 1915/16 he served in the Łódź military hospital and (as deputy corps doctor ) in the IV Army Corps . He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Red Cross Medal (Prussia) III. Class excellent. After receiving a scheduled extraordinary post in the Weimar Republic in 1920, Grouven was appointed personal professor in 1921 . His clinic was transferred to the Association of University Hospitals, but he was not appointed director until January 31, 1927. In the same year he was elected to the Leopoldina . Sick since 1931, he was represented for a long time by his senior physician Theodor Grüneberg. Grouven died as emeritus at the age of 64 during a spa stay in Bad Nauheim. A colleague obituary appeared in the Dermatological Journal in 1937 .

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  1. ↑ a b c d Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism . Hall 2002
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 105/53.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: About the eosinophilic leukocytes of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract
  4. ^ Historical calendar of the University of Bonn
  5. ^ Medicine University of Halle
  6. ↑ Leopoldina MM 3769 Grouven
  7. ↑ Karger
personal data
SURNAME Grouven, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grouven, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1936
Place of death Bad Nauheim