Leo Borchardt

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Leo Borchardt ( August 28, 1879 in Dresden - June 2, 1960 in Carinthia ) was a German internist, physiologist and pharmacologist at the Albertus University of Königsberg / Pr.

Leo Borchardt, professor at the University of Königsberg / Pr.

Life

Leo Borchardt grew up as the son of the Jewish businessman Simon and his wife Auguste in Königsberg, studied medicine and worked as a university professor at the University of Königsberg . His three children were Olla (1907), Annina (1909) and Kurt.

In 1906 Borchardt received the newly created position of 2nd assistant at the Institute for Pharmacology at Max Jaffé in Kopernikus-Str. 3 in Koenigsberg. He later became an associate professor for internal medicine (under Alfred Schittenhelm ) and also taught pathological physiology . He regularly gave lectures in the Association for Scientific Medicine founded by Hermann Helmholtz in 1850 , z. B. on the "sugar metabolism in acromegaly " and "the importance of the time factor for the development of constitutional variants".

In 1930 he is listed in the "German credit agency" initiated by the National Socialists (Issue 4: Königsberg). As a result, he was probably fired in 1933 under the Law Restoring the Professional Civil Service . In 1938 he left Königsberg to live with his son in Austria, then in 1949 with his daughter in Peine. When his wife and his daughter died in 1958, he returned to Carinthia, now ill and blind, and died there on June 2, 1960. The second daughter, who was married in the GDR, was not allowed to go to her father's funeral.

Borchardt wrote in 1957: “We were lucky not to be thrown into the abyss by the political situation. When we were thrown ashore again after 11 years of exile in Lower Saxony, I was no longer able to maintain the scientific level that I was striving for. The extinction of eyesight, first of all for me and a few years later for my wife, pushed us more and more to direct the urge for knowledge from medicine to general scientific questions to philosophy and above all to ethics. ... striving for harmony in the following generations fills me with the awareness that the folly of people to harm and kill one another can be overcome when people join forces who campaign against such foolish behavior ”(Letter to the Pater familias of the "East Prussian Doctor Family" after the golden wedding ceremony, Peine).

In 1958 his wife died, in 1959 one of his daughters, so that he spent the last few years visiting his son in Carinthia. He died there on June 2, 1960. A clergyman from a “Free Religious Congregation” gave the funeral address.

Works

  • Clinical doctrine of constitution. 1st edition, 1924; 2nd edition, Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1930.
  • Introduction to the Study of Medicine. Barth, Leipzig 1933.
  • Constitution and internal secretion. Marhold, Halle 1926.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: Leo Borchardt. In: Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 83 (2014), pp. 43-44, and correction: Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 84 (2024), p. 39.
  2. ^ Circle of Friends and Patrons of the German Credit Agency (ed.): The Jewish Influence on the German High Schools. A family history certificate of the Jewish and Judged university and college professors. Booklet 4: The University of Königsberg. Self-printed in 1930
  3. ^ E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding: The Königsberg "German credit agency 1930" of the National Socialists. In: Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 83 (2014), pp. 40–43, with addendum: Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 84 (2014), pp. 39–40.
  4. ↑ L. Borchardt: Circular letter. In: Ostpreußische Doktorfamilie 1957, Easter circular, p. 2.
  5. ↑ L. Borchardt: Text from letters. In: Ostpreußische Doktorfamilie 1960, Advent circular, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Borchardt, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, physiologist and pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1960
Place of death Carinthia