Leo Mohr

Leo Mohr (born June 27, 1874 in Lustadt , † December 31, 1918 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German doctor and professor at the University of Halle .

Mohr studied medicine at the University of Würzburg , where he received his doctorate in 1896 ( on the absorption of some drugs and drug forms from the rectum ). After he worked at various university clinics (such as the one in Königsberg) and completed his habilitation in internal medicine, he became head of the medical clinic at the University of Halle in 1906, initially as a substitute. In 1909 he became director of the university's outpatient clinic and a scheduled associate professor, apparently without a regular appointment process. This and his behavior towards colleagues and employees also created opponents for him in the medical faculty, because when rumors were circulating in 1918 that he should take over the management of the university clinic in Halle as the successor to Adolf Schmidt, this was immediately denied by the university management. In 1913 he became chairman of the Association of Associate Professors in Prussia. During World War I he was a military doctor in the Sixth Army and headed a field hospital on the Western Front. Most recently he was a doctor in the military mission in Constantinople. He died of sepsis due to a skin injury that he contracted on his return trip from Turkey to his homeland. For his services in World War I he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class.

He researched metabolic diseases (diabetes, gout, obesity), heart and intestinal diseases. Together with Rudolf Staehelin, he was the founder of the manual of internal medicine , which both had published since 1908 and the first volume of which appeared in 1911. He did not live to see the sixth and last volume of the first edition in 1919.

Web links

• Entry in the Halle professor catalog