Max Kassowitz

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Max Kassowitz

Max Kassowitz (born August 14, 1842 in Preßburg , † June 23, 1913 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pediatrician.

Life

After Max Kassowitz had completed his medical studies at the University of Vienna with his doctorate in 1863 , he received further training in the various departments of the General Hospital .

In addition, he had also worked at the First Public Children's Hospital in Vienna's 1st district from 1872 , where Max Kassowitz first worked as a secondary doctor from 1869 and from 1881 as the successor to the previous head, Leopold Max Politzer. For the institute founded by Josef Johann Mastalier in 1787, he expanded in 1884 to include eight ordination rooms, an operating room, a laboratory and an auditorium.

He married the writer Emilie Kassowitz on April 17, 1876 . The philosopher and publicist Julia Kassowitz (1882–1924) and the economist and journalist Toni Stolper were their daughters.

Medically, Max Kassowitz dealt with research into hereditary syphilis and the pathophysiology of rickets . To treat this, he first gave the children phosphorus in oil, but later in cod liver oil . He described the healing effects of his medicine in The phosphorus treatment of rickets . It was not until 1919 that Kurt Huldschinsky discovered that the cod liver oil or the vitamin D contained in it actually had the healing power .

In 1891 Max Kassowitz was appointed university professor. In 1906 he resigned from this office and after his death in 1913 he was buried in the Döblingen cemetery .

Between 1886 and 1896, Sigmund Freud was head of the Department of Neurology at the First Public Children's Hospital under the direction of Max Kassowitz .

Fonts

  • General Biology M. Perles, Vienna 1899.
  • The child's health. Instruction for young parents Pedagogy Collection, 1914.
  • Nerves and Soul M. Perles, Vienna 1906.
  • The drinking custom as an obstacle to youth and popular education Self-published, Vienna 1912.
  • Contributions to paediatrics from the 1st public children's hospital in Vienna Vienna 1890.
  • The doctor and the alcohol M. Perles, Vienna 1904.
  • Normal ossification and diseases of the bone system in rickets and hereditary syphilis Braumüller, Vienna 1881.
  • The inheritance of syphilis Braumüller, Vienna 1876.
  • Infantile myxedema, Mongolism and micromelia M. Perles, Vienna 1907.
  • Metabolism and immunity. Proposal for the reform of Ehrlich's side chain theory M. Perles, Vienna 1907.
  • World - life - soul. System of natural philosophy in common comprehension M. Perles, Vienna 1908.
  • Does the diptheria healing serum have an immunizing effect on humans? Critical study on the occasion of the Langerhans M. Perles case, Vienna 1896.

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Kassowitz Max. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 256 f. (Direct links on p. 256 , p. 257 ).
  2. ^ Elisabeth Roudinesco, Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Names, countries, works, terms. Springer, Vienna / New York 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 302.
personal data
SURNAME Kassowitz, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1913
Place of death Vienna