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Memorial plaque for Oscar Gans at the house at Koelner Strasse 110 in Dormagen

Oscar Gans (born February 6, 1888 in Dormagen , † May 28, 1983 in Limpsfield , Surrey , Great Britain ) was a German dermatologist .

Life

Oscar Gans was the son of Isaak Michael Gans (1846-1909) and Henriette Herz (1857-1929). From 1907 to 1912 he studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn , Freiburg and Berlin and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1912. After further training with Paul Gerson Unna in Hamburg, he took part in the First World War as a doctor. In 1919 he completed his habilitation in dermatology and venereology. In 1924 he was appointed associate professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After his visiting professorship in 1926/27 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester/ USA he was appointed full professor and director of the skin and polyclinic of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1930.

As a Jew , he was given a forced leave of absence in 1934 and then “retired”. In 1934 he emigrated to India with a British passport. He opened a private practice in Bombay , where he devoted himself to leprosy research. From 1935 to 1949 he was a board member of the Bombay Jewish aid organization. After 1946 he returned to Germany and taught at the universities of Munich and Frankfurt am Main. In 1949 he was appointed director of the University Skin Clinic in Frankfurt. From 1950 to 1951 he was dean of the medical faculty and from 1953 to 1954 rector of the university. After his retirement in 1959, he lived in Comano in Ticino. Since 1956 he was a member of the Leopoldina .

Oscar Gans was instrumental in the development of dermatology in Germany. He is the author of the standard work on the histology of skin diseases and was a member of numerous professional societies and from 1953–1960 President of the German Society for Dermatology . In 1957 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit . The German Dermatological Society awards an Oscar Gans Prize "for special scientific achievements in the field of experimental dermatology".

Fonts

• Acute myeloid leukemia or peculiar streptococcal sepsis. [From the pathological institute of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau] . In: Contributions to pathological anatomy and general pathology (Volume 56), Jena 1913; as dissertation Freiburg im Breisgau 1913
• together with Gerd-Klaus Steigleder : Histology of Skin Diseases. The tissue changes in the diseased skin, taking into account their origin and course
  • Volume 1: Normal anatomy and evolutionary history. Corpse apparitions. Dermatopathies. Dermatitis I. 2nd edition. Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1955
  • Volume 2: Dermatitis 2: Locally transmitted, infectious new tissue formations. Animal parasites and foreign bodies. Circulatory disorders. Developmental disorders. Real tumors. 2nd Edition. Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1957.

literature

• Wilhelm Krücke u. a .: Obituaries for Hubert Harbauer , Heinz Sauermann , Gottfried Weber , Guido Sartori , August Oswalt , Oscar Gans, Adolf Wacker , Hermann Hartmann , Hermann Strasburger . Meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Volume 23 (No. 2). Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-515-04825-1 .
• Renate Heuer, Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 110 f.
• Udo Benzenhöfer : The University Medicine in Frankfurt am Main from 1914 to 2014. Kontur, Münster 2014. P. 92, 103, 165,166.

Web links

• Literature by and about Oscar Gans in the catalog of the German National Library