Max Baruch
Max Baruch (born January 11, 1883 in Gnesen ; died 1938 in New York City ) was a German-American surgeon and university professor .
Life
He was the son of the builder Lipman Baruch and his wife Friederike nee Zoellner. After attending grammar school in Thorn, Max Baruch studied medicine at the University of Munich and later moved to the universities in Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1908 he passed the state examination and became an assistant at the surgical university clinic in Berlin. In 1910 he switched to the surgical university clinic in Breslau as an assistant .
Max Baruch immigrated to the USA with his family in 1925. They settled there in New York City . There Max Baruch became a lecturer in surgery at the University of New York and at the same time head of the surgical department of the local Vanderbilt Clinic. He had a doctorate and was given the German title of Medical Councilor .
His daughter Ruth-Marion Baruch , born in 1922, became a photographer. Shortly after Max Baruch saw how she wrote and staged her first play at Emanu-El in New York at the age of 14, entitled "Middle Ages Returning", he died in 1938.
He was a member of the German Society for Surgery.
Works
Max Baruch published in Germany and later in the USA on all areas of surgery. These include, for example:
- The current status of Bier's congestive hyperemia treatment , in: Results of surgery and orthopedics , 2nd volume, 1911, pp. 87-130.
- About the paratyphoid bacillus B as a causative agent of pyogenic diseases , in: Bruns Contributions to Classical Surgery , 1920.
- (with Otto Wilhelm Madelung , Carl Adrian and Viktor Hinsberg): The surgery of abdominal typhus , part 1, Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1923.
- (with Otto Wilhelm Madelung, Carl Adrian and Viktor Hinsberg): The surgery of abdominal typhus , part 2, Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1923.
- About direct anesthesia of the abdominal cavity , in: Zentralblatt Chirurgie 1931, pp. 821–823, 1173–1175.
Honors
- Iron Cross, 1st class
family
On January 2, 1919, he married Bertie, the daughter of Jacob and Cecilie Zweigenhaft.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 64.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Baruch on ancestry.com
- ↑ digitized version
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baruch, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gniezno |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1938 |
| Place of death | New York City |