Lutz Schall

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Ernst Ludwig "Lutz" Schall (born July 22, 1894 in Ulm , † October 17, 1978 in Munich ) was a German pediatrician .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized, born in Ulm Lutz sound, great-grandson of the chemist and founder of the German cement industry Dr. Gustav Leube , son of the Supreme Court Councilor Carl Schall and his wife Elisabeth, née Leube, passed his Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in his hometown. He then studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . The state examination took place in Tübingen in April 1918, the license to practice medicine in October 1918 and the doctorate to become Dr. med. 1919.

Lutz Schall married Gustave Carstens in 1920. Five children came from this connection. He died in Munich in autumn 1978 at the age of 84.

Professional background

After Lutz sound during his junior doctor time the specialist training had been completed to the pediatrician, he became in 1924 the chief physician at the pediatric ward of the regional hospital in Homburg ordered. Lutz Schall completed his habilitation in pediatrics at the University of Cologne in 1936 . In 1940, Lutz Schall accepted the position of director at the municipal children's clinic in Bremen, which at that time was the largest children's clinic in Germany, along with Leipzig. In 1945, after the recall of the former director, Prof. Hess, who was dismissed for racist reasons in 1934, he resigned from this position and settled as a pediatrician in Bremen. In 1951 he was given the management of the newly created children's clinic in Bremen-Blumenthal (Bremen-Nord). In 1955 - after Prof. Hess retired - he took over the management of the Bremen Children's Clinic again. In 1959 he received an honorary professorship for paediatrics at the University of Hamburg . In 1961 he retired.

The proven expert in the field of pediatric radiology , who temporarily chaired the Natural Science Association in Bremen , was awarded honorary membership of the European Society of Pediatric Radiology (ESPR) in 1964 and that of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine in the following year . In addition, he was made the first honorary member of the Society for Pediatric Radiology GPR.

Fonts (selection)

Books and book contributions

  • W. Birk, L. Schall: Treatment of childhood diseases with ultraviolet and X-rays (= radiation therapy. Special volume 17). Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1932.
  • St. Engel , L. Schall: Handbook of X-ray diagnostics and therapy in childhood. Thieme, Leipzig 1933.

Essays

  • L. Schall: The esophagocardiogram, its development and its interpretation. Dissertation. University of Tübingen, 1919, DNB 571506100 .
  • L. Schall, E. Willich: The paidoscope, a universal device for the X-ray examination of children of all ages. In: RoeFo. Volume 99, 1963, pp. 559-64.
  • L. Schall, E. Willich: On the technique of the colon-contrast enema in infants and small children. In: Ann Pediatr. Volume 204, 1965, pp. 221-31.

literature

  • E. Willich: In memoriam. Lutz Schall 1894–1978. In: Pediatr Radiol. Volume 8, 1979, p. 125, doi: 10.1007 / BF00974008 .
  • W. Heck: Professor Dr. Lutz Schall †. In: monthly Paediatrics 127: 160-161 (1979).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Seidler, Jewish paediatricians 1933–1945 - disenfranchised, fled, murdered . Karger, Basel 2014
  2. ^ Gabriele Benz-Bohm, Ernst Richter: Chronicle of Children's Radiology. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-25580-9 , DOI: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-25581-6
personal data
SURNAME Schall, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schall, Ludwig (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1978
Place of death Bremen