Leopold friend
Leopold Freund (born April 5, 1868 in Miskowitz, today Miscovice / Okres Kutná Hora , near Prague , † January 7, 1943 in Brussels ) was an Austrian radiologist.
Live and act
Leopold Freund studied medicine in Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1895. In 1904 he qualified as a professor in medical radiology and in 1914 became titular professor for this subject at the University of Vienna . Freund is considered to be the founder of medical radiology and X-ray therapy .
With the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895 and the following year with the discovery of radioactivity by Antoine Henri Becquerel and the first use in patients by Leopold Freund in Vienna, the basis for radiation therapy was created.
Leopold Freund also published fundamental work on light treatment of occupational diseases and the use of X-rays to inspect building materials.
Freund, who was Jewish, emigrated to Belgium in 1938 after the annexation of Austria .
Fonts
- With an X-ray treated case of nevus pigmentosus piliferus , an article in the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift on March 6, 1897 , Freund established radiation therapy as a new scientific field.
- Occupational diseases and their prevention with special reference to the graphic arts. Hall 1901.
- Outline of all radiotherapy for general practitioners , the first textbook in the world dedicated exclusively to radiotherapy. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1903.
- The electric spark treatment of carcinomas. Stuttgart 1908.
literature
- Marlene Jantsch: Friend, Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 413 ( digitized version ).
- Friend Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 359.
- Leopold Freund, in: Judith Bauer-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: Diss., 1980, pp. 59-61b. PDF
- Giovanni Maio : Friend, Leopold. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 439.
Web links
- Leopold FREUND (1868-1943): Expelled in 1938 in: VAN SWIETEN blog of April 22, 2008
- Entry on Leopold Freund in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ^ Giovanni Maio: Friend, Leopold. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 439.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friend, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian radiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miscovice near Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1943 |
| Place of death | Brussels |