Marlene Jantsch

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Marlene Jantsch , née Ratzersdorfer , (born September 26, 1917 in Osterwieck , Province of Saxony ; † July 17, 1994 in Vienna ) was an Austrian doctor and medical historian with Slovak citizenship (1938–1945), from 1945 Austrian citizenship.

Life

Marlene Dorothea Roberta Jantsch, daughter of the publisher Hugo Ratzersdorfer and Helene Zickfeldt, first attended secondary school in Berlin , but moved to Vienna in 1933 , where she graduated from the Döblingen girls' high school in 1936 . She then began studying medicine at the University of Vienna , which she completed with a doctorate on July 26, 1941.

After completing her studies, she became an assistant doctor at the First Surgical Clinic of the General Hospital in Vienna under Leopold Schönbauer , whose private assistant she became in 1942. Much of her work from this period on the history of medicine did not appear under her name, but under the Schönbauer; including a series of articles in the Völkischer Boten . Large parts of Schönbauer's monograph The Medical Vienna (1944) come from Jantsch. In this book "National Socialism [...] practically does not appear," but "under no circumstances should it be concluded that the actual medical-historical researcher behind this publication, Marlene Jantsch, wanted to play down the past."

When clinic director Schönbauer became head of the Vienna Institute for the History of Medicine after the end of World War II in 1945 , Marlene Jantsch looked after the facilities of this institute, such as the library and the collection of wax preparations, in addition to her actual work as an internist in the First Surgical Clinic . It was not until 1948 that her publications appeared under her own name, including numerous on the history of medicine and related personalities. 1957 habilitation Jantsch is the history of medicine, in 1958 she became specialist in internal medicine, internal medicine then Konsularärztin to the departments of gynecology and urology at the hospital Lainz before as internist returned to the Vienna General Hospital. Marlene Jantsch died on July 17, 1994 in Vienna. She was buried at the Neustift cemetery . Her special merit is the reconstruction of the Vienna Medical History Institute after 1945.

Marlene Jantsch was married to Hans Heinrich Jantsch (Head of the University Clinic for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Vienna). They had four children: Christine Nowotny, Wolfgang Jantsch , Hans Jantsch and Katharina Pils.

Works

  • Medical Vienna, history, development, appreciation. By Leopold Schönauer, with significant assistance from Marlene and Hans Jantsch. Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1947.
  • Julius Wagner-Jauregg. Memoirs of life with Leopold Schönbauer. Vienna: Springer, 1950.
  • The foundation of the Josephinum. Its importance for the development of surgery and the military in Austria . Vienna: Hollinek, 1956.
  • Live healthier - live longer . By Leopold Schönauer, with significant assistance from Marlene and Hans Jantsch. Vienna: Europa Verlag - Forum Verlag, 1955.
  • The Austrian hospital . By Leopold Schönauer, with significant assistance from Marlene and Hans Jantsch. Vienna: Hollinek, 1958.
  • Catalog of the Josephinian Collection of Anatomical and Obstetric Wax Preparations . With Konrad Aller. Vienna / Graz / Cologne: Böhlau, 1965.
  • Numerous articles in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815 - 1950 . Vienna: Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
  • Numerous other scientific publications.

Membership in scientific associations

Marlene Jantsch was a member of numerous scientific associations, including B .:

literature

  • Bolognese-Leuchtenmüller, Birgit & Horn, Sonja (eds.) (2000). Daughters of Hippocrates. 100 years of academic women doctors in Austria . Vienna: Publishing house of the Austrian Medical Association.
  • Sonia Horn: Jantsch, Marlene, b. Ratzersdorfer. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Erika Korotin (Ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 333–334.
  • Michael Hubenstorf: Continuity and Break in Medical History. Medicine in Austria 1938–1955. In: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Continuity and break. 1938 - 1945 - 1955. Contributions to Austrian cultural and scientific history (= emigration, exile, continuity. Vol. 3). Unchanged new edition. Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7489-3 , pp. 299-332.
  • Gerhard Kütterer: life data of deserving personalities in the first decades of radiology. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7392-5738-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonia Horn: Jantsch, Marlene, b. Ratzersdorfer. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Erika Korotin (Ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 333–334, here p. 334.
  2. ↑ Michael Hubenstorf: Continuity and break in the history of medicine. Medicine in Austria 1938–1955. In: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Continuity and break. 1938 - 1945 - 1955. Unchanged new edition. 2004, pp. 299-332, here p. 304.
  3. ↑ Michael Hubenstorf: Continuity and break in the history of medicine. Medicine in Austria 1938–1955. In: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Continuity and break. 1938 - 1945 - 1955. Unchanged new edition. 2004, pp. 299-332, here p. 320.
  4. ^ Grave site Marlene Jantsch , Vienna, Neustifter Friedhof, Group N, Row 18, No. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Jantsch, Marlene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ratzersdorfer, Marlene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterwieck
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1994
Place of death Vienna