Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer

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Memorial plaque at the Kaiser and Kaiserin Friedrich Children's Hospital in Berlin-Wedding

Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer , mostly Ludwig F. Meyer (* May 23, 1879 in Wiesbaden ; † September 19, 1954 in Tel Aviv ), was a pediatrician and nutrition expert (especially child and infant nutrition), professor of medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms- University in Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one of the first pediatricians in Israel .

Life

Meyer was born in Wiesbaden on May 23, 1879. He studied medicine in Munich , Berlin and Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1902 and received his license to practice medicine . He then moved to Berlin to the Charité children's clinics , where he worked as an assistant to Otto Heubner , one of the founders of paediatrics in Germany, and to Adalbert Czerny , another co-founder of modern paediatrics, at the University of Breslau , in order to complete his specialist training .

From 1905 Meyer worked as an assistant at the Berlin municipal orphanage and children's asylum in the Kürassierstrasse, where Heinrich Finkelstein , a pioneer of infant medicine , was the senior physician. Together with Finkelstein he published many publications in professional journals and medical books. His habilitation took place in 1913 at the Berlin University as a private lecturer in paediatrics.

From 1914 Meyer was a medical officer in the First World War and organized rescue operations for the Jewish population suffering from the war in German-occupied Poland . In a letter from the Jewish community of Oszmiana , his commitment to the establishment of a people's kitchen and a school is acknowledged: “We thank the Eternal that he has let us find a man who, in addition to his difficult office, works tirelessly for the hungry and also here Heals wounds struck by war. ” Here a street was named after him.

After Finkelstein had succeeded Adolf Baginsky at the Kaiser- und Kaiserin-Friedrich Children's Hospital in 1918 , Meyer succeeded him as head of the Berlin municipal orphanage and children's asylum. In 1922 he became an associate professor at Berlin University.

Heinrich Finkelstein retired on March 1, 1933, after which Meyer took over his position as director of the Kaiser- und Kaiserin-Friedrich Children's Hospital on January 1, 1933. After the National Socialist rulers enacted the law to restore the civil service as one of the first racist laws on April 7, 1933 , Meyer lost this position again in May 1933. He was able to keep his position as a university professor. He then took over the management of the children's outpatient clinic at the Jewish Hospital Berlin .

In 1935 Meyer emigrated to Israel with his wife Lotte, their daughter Ilse and their son-in-law Professor Walter Hirsch and their grandson Daniel (who later became a psychiatrist and bestselling author Daniel Offer ) and initially settled in Jerusalem . There he headed the children's department of the Bikur Cholim Hospital for a year . From 1936 to 1954 he was head of the children's department at Hadassah Municipal Hospital in Tel Aviv and also as a consultant at the Tzahalon Hospital of the Arab doctor Dr. Fouad Ibrahim Dajani in Jaffa . From January 1937 until his death, Lotte and Ludwig Meyer lived together at Beit Liebling in Tel Aviv.

He died in September 1954 after a long illness at the age of 75 and was buried in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

Services

Meyer was the world's leading infant nutritionist in his day. In 1910, together with Finkelstein, he developed protein milk , an acid milk with reduced whey and lactose content , as a milk substitute based on cow milk . He saved the lives of numerous babies who suffered from nutritional disorders . His scientific focus was on physiology and pathology of infancy, especially nutrition and metabolism , immunity slehre and hospital hygiene . He introduced sulfonamide therapy in childhood gastrointestinal diseases.

After emigrating to Palestine , he played a major role in training Israeli pediatricians. He was the teacher of Prof. Benzion Werbin, Prof. Israel Hyman and Professor Nahum Boger. The treatment of toxicosis in infants was one of his most important research achievements .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ludwig F. Meyer, On Infant Hospitalism: A Clinical Study ; [From d. Orphanage d. City of Berlin (Senior Physician Prof. Dr. H. Finkelstein)], Berlin: Karger, 1913.
  • Leo Langstein, Ludwig F. Meyer, Infant nutrition and infant metabolism: A floor plan for the general practitioner , 2 u. 3. redesigned u. exp. Ed., Wiesbaden: Bergmann, 1914.
  • LF Meyer, E. Nassau, The nutritional disorders in infancy , Halle / Saale :. C Marhold, 1923
  • LF Meyer, E. Nassau, Physiology and Pathology of Infant Nutrition, 2. Complete. edit again Ed., Basel - New York :. Karger, 1953 (reprinted and improved, translated into English)
  • Diseases of infancy including nutritional pathology and therapy , Leipzig: G. Thieme, 1924. (Diagnostic and therapeutic errors and their prevention, H 2)
Translation LF Meyer, Erich Nassau, Physiology and Pathology of Infant Nutrition ; translated by Kurt Glaser, Susanne Glaser, Completely rev. 2nd ed, Springfield, Ill: Thomas, 1955. ("Physiology and Pathology of Infant Nutrition")

Honors

  • At the international pediatric congress in New York in 1947, the esteemed German-Jewish doctor was celebrated with a standing ovation for his scientific achievements.
  • The opening of the 6th Pediatric Congress in Israel in November 1949 was dedicated to Meyer's 70th birthday. The pediatrician Erich Nassau, who had been his assistant since the 1920s, paid tribute to him with the words: “ Your cordial treatment of people, your understanding for mother and child and your patience have made parents and children feel at each other who you worked as a doctor, after a short time turned to you with complete confidence. "
  • In 1953 Meyer became an honorary member of the German Society for Pediatrics .
  • A street in Oszmiana was named after him.
  • On August 26, 1999, a memorial plaque was placed at the entrance of the Rudolf Virchow Children's Hospital, the former Kaiser and Kaiserin Friedrich Children's Hospital, and unveiled by the Weddingen district mayor Hans Nisblé and the chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin , Andreas Nachama .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Seidler writes in his book "Jewish pediatricians 1933-1945 Disenfranchised / escaped / Murdered" that Meyer until May 1934 headed the hospital, according plaque he headed the hospital from January to May 1933. According to a report in the Berliner Morgenpost from 27th August 1999 he was released on April 7, 1933.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish doctors from Germany and their part in the Israeli health system erez-israel.de
  2. ↑ Dajani Hospital on palestineremembered.com, accessed on February 7, 2016
  3. ↑ Tel Aviv inaugurates Fouad-Dajani-Platz , Austrian-Israeli Society, oeig.at, accessed on February 7, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Ludwig Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Ludwig F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1954
Place of death Tel Aviv