Ludwig Adler (gynecologist)

Ludwig Adler (born November 7, 1876 in Vienna ; † August 8, 1958 , New Milford , Connecticut ) was an Austrian obstetrician and gynecologist .

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Ludwig Adler studied at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in general medicine in 1900. He then worked at the General Hospital of the City of Vienna and at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute of the University of Vienna.

In 1904 he moved to the University Women's Clinic, headed by Friedrich Schauta , and became an assistant there in 1906. In 1908, Adler and Fritz Hitschmann published his fundamental work “The structure of the uterine mucous membrane of sexually mature women with special consideration of menstruation”. In 1912 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna.

From 1913 he headed the radium ward of the university women's clinic, made great contributions to radiation therapy for uterine cancer and enjoyed an excellent reputation as a surgeon (vaginal radical hysterectomy ). Adler subsequently wrote over 100 scientific papers, including, for example, "The treatment of malignant tumors in gynecology by radium" (1919).

In 1919 he became an associate professor and from 1920 was head of the gynecological department at the Wilhelminenspital , later at the Rudolf Foundation in Vienna. From 1935 to 1938 Adler worked as a primary physician at the Bettina Foundation pavilion of the Kaiserin Elisabeth Hospital .

After Austria was annexed to the German Empire , Adler was dismissed as a Jew from the University of Vienna and subsequently had to emigrate .

In New York City he was able to continue his work as a gynecologist at Beth Israel Hospital and St. Claire's Hospital and became an honorary member of the American Association of Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons and numerous other professional societies.

literature

• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 .
• Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . Volume 1. Aaser-Komoto. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1962.
• Ludwig Adler . 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 . Dissertation, Vienna 1980, pp. 3–4. ( online , PDF, 36 kB)
• Ludwig Adler in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Austrian National Library (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin, 18th to 20th centuries . 3 volumes. tape 1 . KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 13 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Adler in the catalog of the German National Library