Ludwig Halberstädter

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Halberstädter (left) with Stanislaus von Prowazek (center) during an experiment with a patient and an experimental monkey.

Ludwig Halberstädter (born December 9, 1876 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia; died August 20, 1949 in New York City ) was a German doctor and radiation therapist .

life and work

Halberstädter was born as the son of Hermann Halberstaedter and his wife Henriette (née Prager) in Beuthen. His father came from a merchant family from Militsch . The mother was from Rybnik . Halberstädter grew up with three brothers and a sister. After finishing school, he began to study medicine in Heidelberg and Breslau . He obtained his license to practice medicine in 1901 and, after a year as a military doctor, began to work in surgery. After receiving his doctorate, he switched to dermatology with Albert Neisser in Breslau . With this he traveled to Java in 1905 and 1907, where he carried out examinations on trachoma sufferers with Stanislaus von Prowazek, among others . The two discovered microscopic inclusion bodies in the cells of the conjunctiva . These were named after them as Halberstädter-Prowazek inclusion bodies .

After his research trips, Halberstädter increasingly dealt with radiological and radiation medicine issues. He investigated therapeutic uses of radioactive rays in skin diseases and was the first to describe their effects on the female genital tract. In 1907 Halberstädter moved to Berlin where he first worked in pathology and then at the Charité's radiological institute . In 1922 he completed his habilitation in dermatology and radiation therapy and was appointed as associate professor for both subjects from 1926. From 1930 he became head of the radiation department at the Institute for Cancer Research in Berlin-Dahlem. In particular, he researched the radiation therapy treatment of skin and larynx cancer.

After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists in 1933, Halberstädter lost his academic position, as did numerous other Jewish scientists. In May 1933 he emigrated to Palestine with his wife . Here he took over the management of the radiation therapy department of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. In 1935 he received a professorship in radiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Halberstädter died in a laboratory in 1949 during a research trip to New York.

family

Halberstädter married Agnes Pflaum, who brought two children (Claus and Alberta) with her from her first marriage to Albert Münchhausen. Their son Max also studied medicine in London and became a radiologist. Max Halberstädter obtained British citizenship and changed his name to Hulbert.

Publications

  • “ The consequences of ligating the femoral vein below the Poupartii ligament ”, dissertation Breslau 1903
  • with S. von Prowazek: “ About cell inclusions of a parasitic nature in trachoma ”, in: Work from the Imperial Health Office 26, 1907, pp. 44–47
  • " Experimental investigations on trypanosomes about the biological effects of radiation ", in: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift . 51, 1914, p. 252 f.
  • " On the mesothorium treatment of hyperkeratoses in X-ray hands ", in: Archive for Dermatology and Syphilis , Originalien, 130, 1921, pp. 241–45
  • “ Physical properties and biological effect of the X-rays emanating from the back of the anticathode ”, in: Advances in the field of X-rays 29, 1922, pp. 478-88
  • “ About the effect of primary and secondary X-rays on bacteria ”, in: F ortritten in the field of X-rays 29, 1922, pp. 489-95
  • " Dangers of damage to the larynx by X-rays ", in: Advances in the field of X-rays 31, 1923/24, p. 425 ff.
  • with A. Simons " The effect of radium, cathode, X-ray and light rays on the blood-forming organs and the blood ", in: Handbuch der Allgemeine Hematologie . I, 2, 1933, pp. 1419-1520
  • with L. Doljanski " Radiobiological investigations on tissue cultures ", in: Archive for experimental cell research 19, 1937, pp. 475–97
  • with L. Doljanski " Sur la Radiosensibilité des leucocytes en culture in vitro ", in: Acta de l'Union internationale contre le cancer 2, Paris 1937, p. 349
  • with G. Goldhaber “ Effect of x-ray on erythrocytes ”, in: Proceedings of the Society of Biology and Medicine 54, Utica, NY, 1943, p. 270 f.
  • " Radiotherapy of hemangiomas in children ", in: Harefuah 24, Tel-Aviv 1943, p. 38 (Hebrew)
  • " Effect of pregnancy on translucence of mammary gland ", in: Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Empire 55, Timperley 1948, pp. 65 ff.

literature

  • Halberstaedter, Ludwig , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 137
  • Halberstaedter, Ludwig , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 452

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Collection on the Halberstaedter family on the website of the Jewish Museum Berlin
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Zoske, Horst, "Halberstaedter, Ludwig", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), p. 534 f. ( Online version )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i " Ludwig Halberstädter - Jewish doctors from Germany and their contribution to the development of the Israeli health system" on aerzte.erez-israel.de
personal data
SURNAME Halberstädter, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halberstaedter, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Radiologist and oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1949
Place of death new York