Moritz Alsberg

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Moritz Alsberg (born February 6, 1840 in Kassel ; † June 28, 1920 there ) was a German doctor and anthropologist.

Life

Alsberg studied medicine from 1859 at the Philipps University of Marburg and from 1860 at the Georg August University of Göttingen . He became active in the Corps Teutonia Marburg and the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . As an inactive , he switched to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . In 1863 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After the state examination he was a general practitioner in the Cape Colony from 1864 to 1877 . He made several trips to South Africa for morphological-ethnological studies. He returned to Germany in 1878 as a well-to-do man and settled in his hometown. He was considered the Nestor of the Kassel doctors. After a long illness, he died as an 80-year-old medical councilor . His widow died on November 24, 1921.

When the pathogens causing cholera and tuberculosis had been discovered by Robert Koch , Alsberg expected such diseases to disappear soon at the Natural Scientists' Conference in Freiburg in 1883. As a Jewish anthropologist, he was concerned with the question of whether the Jews had "obtained their tribal purity through isolation and seclusion" or whether they were a "mixture of races". "Unfortunately, the change in the relationship between the corps and the Jewish students that had meanwhile occurred gave him an opportunity to refrain from any activity as a member of a corps."

Fonts

  • The healthy apartment . Habel, Berlin 1883 ( digitized version )
  • The beginnings of the iron culture . Berlin 1885
  • The racial mixture in Judaism . Hamburg 1891 ( digitized version )
  • Anthropology with consideration of the prehistory of man , 2nd edition. Stuttgart 1892
  • Right-handedness and left-handedness, as well as their presumed causes . Stuttgart 1894
  • The basics of memory, heredity, instincts . 1906
  • The descent of man and the conditions of his development . 1902 (reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, September 2010)
  • The oldest human traces in Australia . OO, no date

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102/409; 42/638
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the sense of space and temperature in the skin at different levels of blood supply
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Gottfried Krause: Obituary for Moritz Alsberg . Corpszeitung des Corps Teutonia Marburg, No. 2/1922 (25th year, issue 50), p. 7
  4. ↑ P. Heise, U. Holzgrabe: Race with resistant bacteria . Pharmaceutical Newspaper, 2005
  5. ↑ Alexandra Przyrembel : "Rassenschande". Purity myth and legitimation for extermination under National Socialism . Göttingen 2003, p. 25. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Alsberg, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1920
Place of death kassel