Leo Hess
Leo Hess , born as Leo Hescheles (born February 6, 1879 in Vienna , † August 17, 1963 in Brookline , Massachusetts ) was an Austro-American internist and neurologist .
Life
Leo Hess, son of Bernhard Hess and Minna born Sussman, devoted himself to filed Matura a study of medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Vienna before 1903 in Vienna to Dr. med. , 1905 Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate . As a result, he held assistant doctor positions at the University of Vienna with Hermann Nothnagel, then with Carl von Noorden at the 1st Medical Clinic, with Julius Wagner-Jauregg at the Psychiatric Clinic, three years at the 1st Eye Clinic and with Adolf von Strümpell and 15 years with Franz Chvostek at the III. Medical clinic.
Leo Hess completed his habilitation for internal medicine in Vienna in 1918, and in 1925 he was appointed associate professor and in 1929 full professor . Leo Hess, who also worked at the Rothschild Hospital at the same time , was a member of the Society of Doctors in Vienna , the Association for Psychiatry and Neurology in Vienna and the German Chemical Society in Berlin.
Leo Hess, which, after the annexation of Austria to the Nazi German Reich the Venia legendi was revoked, emigrated then to the US, where he from 1939 to 1941 as a professor of medicine at the Middlesex University in Waltham, Massachusetts , and later at Beth Israel Hospital worked in Boston. Among other things, Hess researched the autonomic nervous system , Graves' disease , stomach and intestinal ulcers, the pathology of edema and acid poisoning .
Fonts
- With Paul Saxl, Karl Rudinger: Human biology: presented to wider circles from the scientific results of medicine, Julius Springer, Vienna, 1910
- With Paul Saxl: On the knowledge of the specific properties of the carcinoma cell, Vienna, 1909
- With Hans Eppinger: Die Vagotonie; a clinical study, Hirschwald, 1910
- Vegetative nervous system and digestive organs, Julius Springer, Vienna, 1925
- Nervous disorders of the stomach, Julius Springer, Vienna, 1926
- Pulmonary infarction and pulmonary edema, Schwabe, Basel, 1939
literature
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 4, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 672.
- Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 1: A - Q. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 . Page 276.
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 4, 2nd edition, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 2006 ISBN 3-598-25034-7 . Page 787.
- Alfred Adler , Karl Heinz Witte: About the nervous character (1912): Basics of a comparative individual psychology and psychotherapy. 2., corr. Ed., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2008 ISBN 3-525-46053-8 . Page 338.
- Hans Morgenstern: Jewish biographical lexicon. A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800, LIT Verlag, Vienna 2009 ISBN 978-3-8258-0509-8 . Page 350 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Leo Hess in the catalog of the German National Library
- " Leo HESS (1879-1963): Displaced 1938 ", VAN SWIETEN blog, information from the MedUni Vienna University Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hess, Leo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hescheles, Leo (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-American internist and neurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1963 |
| Place of death | Brookline , Massachusetts |