Leopold doctor

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Leopold Arzt (born March 16, 1883 in Vienna ; † May 20, 1955 there ) was an Austrian doctor.

Life

Leopold Arzt studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1908 . From 1902 he was a member of the Catholic student union KaV Norica Vienna . He qualified as a professor in dermatology and syphilidology . The doctor worked as an assistant at the Pathological Institute of the General Polyclinic , as an operation child at the Hochenegg Clinic and as an assistant at the Dermatology Clinic.

In 1926 he was appointed professor at the University of Vienna . He was head of the University Clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases, several times dean of the medical faculty and 1936/37 rector of the university.

Doctor was a personal friend of Engelbert Dollfuss . He was also a member of the anti-Semitic secret society, the German Community , in which Christian Socialists and German Nationalists had hunted down the post on a large scale until 1930.

After the annexation of Austria , he was released and imprisoned for supporting the Dollfuss and Schuschnigg regime . After the end of the Second World War he returned to his offices. Leopold Arzt played an important role in the re-establishment of the Society of Doctors in Vienna after the Second World War. In 1954 he retired.

Fonts (selection)

  • The skin and sexually transmitted diseases. Urban & Schwarzenberg , Vienna 1934.
  • General dermatology. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna 1934.

literature

  • Judith Merinsky: The effects of the annexation of Austria by the German Reich on the medical faculty of the University of Vienna in 1938: biographies of dismissed professors and lecturers. Vienna 1980, p. 7 f. (Dissertation, University of Vienna, 1980; digitized version ).
  • Stifter, Christian H. (2014). Between spiritual renewal and restoration. American plans for denazification and democratic reorientation and the post-war reality of Austrian science 1941–1955 . Vienna - Cologne - Weimar: Böhlau, p. 298. [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The honorary members, old men and students of the CV Vienna 1925, p. 643.
  2. ^ Klaus Taschwer : University of Vienna at the end of April 1945: The missed zero hour Der Standard , May 1, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Doctor, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1955
Place of death Vienna