Max Borst

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Maximilian "Max" Borst (born November 19, 1869 in Würzburg , † October 19, 1946 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German pathologist .

Life

He completed his medical studies at the University of Würzburg in 1892 with a doctorate on congenital hip dislocation . His habilitation took place in 1897 with a thesis "on the behavior of the endothelia in acute and chronic inflammation". During his studies he became a member of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity in the winter semester of 1888/89 .

Max Borst's signature on a document

Borst was a professor of pathology in Cologne and Göttingen. In 1906 he succeeded his teacher Eduard von Rindfleisch in Würzburg. From 1910 he taught in Munich. In the First World War he served in the Bavarian Army and set up the first field prosecution there.

After the war he joined the Epp Freikorps . In Munich, among other things, he examined patient preparations taken by the surgeon Sauerbruch , for example tissue samples from Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who died shortly afterwards, in 1923 .

During the Nazi era , he became chairman of the Reich Committee for Combating Cancer in 1934 . He belonged to the NS teachers' association , the NS doctors association and the National Socialist People's Welfare . He was co-editor of the Münchner Medizinischen Wochenschrift .

Since 1928 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1936 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1946 Max Borst died in a car accident in Murnau. He was the father of the surgeon Hans Georg Borst .

Publications (selection)

  • General pathology of malignant tumors . Leipzig: Hirzel, 1924.
  • Investigations on porphyria with esp. Berücks. the porphyria congenita together with Hans Königsdörffer. Leipzig: Hirzel, 1929.
  • Pathological Histology: A Teaching Course f. Students and Doctors . 4. verb. and exp. Edition, Munich: Bergmann, 1950.
  • Highlights of the cancer problem . Munich; Berlin: JF Lehmanns Verlag, 1941.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Werner Hueck, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie Vol. 2, p. 477.
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 66.
  4. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 311.
  5. ^ Member entry of Max Borst at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Borst, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borst, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1946
Place of death Murnau am Staffelsee