Karl Justi (doctor)

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Grave of Karl Justi in the main cemetery in Marburg (2017)

Karl Justi (born March 8, 1873 in Marburg ; † March 21, 1949 there ) was a German doctor ( pathology , tropical medicine ). He was also a local researcher in Marburg .

Life

Karl Justi comes from a Protestant family of scholars in Marburg. His father was the orientalist and Germanist Ferdinand Justi .

In 1892 Justi began studying natural sciences at the University of Freiburg i. Br. And devoted himself mainly to zoology and paleontology. In 1894 he switched to medicine. His doctorate, submitted to the University of Marburg in 1897, on the subject of "tubercular granulation tissue" was awarded a prize.

From 1897 to 1903 Justi worked as an assistant doctor at clinics in Hamburg, Marburg and Posen in the pathology, anatomy, surgery and obstetrics departments. From 1903 to 1913 he went to the German colonies in Hong Kong and Macao as a general practitioner. His son Eduard was born in Hong Kong in 1904 . Back in Germany, Justi became an assistant at the anatomical-pathological institute of the University of Halle and wrote his habilitation on tropical sprue . After he had represented the full professor at the pathological-anatomical institute of the University of Breslau in 1914 and 1915 , Justi was appointed professor in Halle in 1916. In 1917/18 he worked as a senior doctor in the Aschersleben reserve hospital.

In 1919 he set up his own practice as a doctor in Marburg, where he practiced until his death and worked as a local researcher.

In 1913 he was awarded the Military Order of the Immaculate Conception ( Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa ) after he was able to cure A. Cinatti, head of the Portuguese commission for clarifying open border disputes with China and later ambassador in London, of a tropical disease.

Publications (selection)

  • Via the Unna's plasma cells in the normal and tubercular granulations. Marburg (G. Reimer) Berlin 1897 (= Med. Diss. Of Oct. 21, 1897)
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Spru (Aphthae tropicae) . Leipzig (JA Barth) 1913 (also as: Archive for Ship and Tropical Hygiene. Vol. 17, Beih. 10)
  • About the pathogenic effects of the sun's rays on people. Leipzig (Konegen) 1914
  • with O. Müller: Contribution to the knowledge of climatic bubons. In: Archives for Ship and Tropical Hygiene, Vol. 18, Supplement 8, Leipzig (Barth) 1914
  • Metastatic amoebic diseases. Leipzig (JA Barth) 1916
  • History of the Ruppersberg family. Frankfurt am Main (City Archives) 1931
  • The Marburg Castle. Building history of a German castle. Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse and Waldeck 21, Marburg-Lahn (Elwert'sche Verlagbuchhandlung) 1942

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5778, p. 322 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Justi, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1949
Place of death Marburg