Karl Hirsch (doctor)

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Karl Hirsch (born April 2, 1870 in Oppenheim , † December 28, 1930 in Bonn ) was a German internist and university professor.

Life

As the son of a general practitioner in Oppenheim, Hirsch studied medicine at the Hessian Ludwig University , the University of Jena and the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg . From 1891 he was a member of the Corps Hassia Gießen and the Corps Thuringia Jena . After the state examination, he worked as an assistant to Max Schede in Hamburg and Heinrich Curschmann in Leipzig. There he completed his habilitation. In 1907 he was appointed to the Medical Polyclinic of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . At the same time he was entrusted with the management of the Hilda Children's Hospital. In 1909 he was appointed to the Georg-August University of Göttingen , and in 1909 he was appointed to the chair as successor to Wilhelm His . He stayed there for ten years. He turned down calls from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . During the First World War he was a consultant internist in almost all theaters of war. In April 1919 he followed the call of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . His friendship with the physiologist Max Verworn was probably the determining factor . Hirsch was married to Anni Goerz, a niece of Heinrich Curschmann, through whom he was on friendly terms with the Georg von Siemens family.

literature

  • Curt Oehme: Carl Hirsch † . Klinische Wochenschrift 10 (1931), p. 191

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 51/680; 129/744
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The relationships between the heart and body muscles and their behavior in cardiac hypertrophy
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsch, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppenheim
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1930
Place of death Bonn