Leo Norpoth

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The grave of Leo Norpoth and his wife Else in the Ostfriedhof Essen .

Leo Anton Wilhelm Norpoth (born April 6, 1901 in Essen-Karnap ; † September 11, 1973 ) was a German physician and medical historian.

Life

Leo Norpoth, son from the marriage of the physician Wilhelm Norpoth and Antonie, born. Gasseling, studied at the universities of Würzburg, Freiburg, Munich, Münster, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Leipzig. He first completed studies in philosophy and in 1924 at Joseph Geyser in Munich with the history of medicine work Augustan pseudo-The treatise: De spiritu et anima to Dr. phil. PhD. At the same time he studied medicine and passed his state examination in 1923. From 1929 to 1931 he was an assistant at the Physiol.-Chem. Institute in Frankfurt am Main and from 1931 to 1934 doctor of internal medicine at the Leipzig University Hospital. From 1935 to 1937 he was senior physician at the Elisabethen Hospital in Cologne. From 1938 to 1949 he was chief physician at the St. Franziskus Hospital in Cologne. In 1949 he moved to the Elisabeth Hospital in Essen as chief physician .

In 1943 he qualified as a professor for internal medicine and in 1944 for the history of medicine at the University of Cologne . Since 1953 he was an adjunct professor for the history of medicine and internal medicine at the University of Cologne and professor for the history of medicine at what was then the Essen Clinic of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . Since 1964 he has been one of the editors of the quarterly magazine “Arzt und Christ” and co-editor of “Gastroenterologia”, the official organ of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases . His publication " Niels Stensen : Medical-historical contribution to the question of doctor and priest" (in: Arzt und Christ, Salzburg 1956, 32 ff) was described as groundbreaking. ́ Norpoth was a founding member of the local association of Lebenshilfe in Essen in 1961 . He had been married to Else Elting since 1938.

In 1966, Leo Norpoth was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Cologne Cathedral on February 22, 1966 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Fonts

  • On the biology, bibliography and science of Pietro d'Albano, physician, philosopher and astronomer in Padua , 1930
  • The authors of the Cologne Pharmacopoeia as anti-Paracelsists , 1952
  • Ways and wrong ways of German insulin research , 1953, together with Paula Drügemöller
  • The "Pulvis stomachicus Birckmanni" from the 16th century , 1955
  • Niels Stensen: Medical historical contribution to the question of doctor and priest , 1956
  • Preliminary communication on the influence of a gastroduodenal tissue extract (Robadin) on the behavior of gastric juice proteins , 1958, together with E. Ohligschläger and T. Surmann
  • Bioptical, bio- and ferment-chemical gastric examinations , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 1962, together with Theo Surmann
  • The pseudo-Augustus treatise: De spiritu et anima , dr. Cologne, Bochum 1971 / Kohlhauer 1971 (first dissertation Munich 1924)

source

  • Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who 1976, Volume 19, p. 697
  • Who's who in Science in Europe 1967, Volume 1, Issue 2
  • Who's who in the Catholic World 1967, Volume 1, p. 465

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Who's Who in the Catholic World 1967 , Volume 1, p. 465
  2. ↑ a b Das Krankenhaus 1966, Volume 58, p. 258
  3. ↑ Max Bierbaum: Niels Stensen: from anatomy to theology, 1638-1686 , Aschendorff 1959
personal data
SURNAME Norpoth, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norpoth, Leo Anton Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Food karnap
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1973