Oskar Bail

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Oskar Bail (born December 6, 1869 in Tillisch near Aussig ; † December 30, 1927 in Prague ) was a Sudeten German hygienist , bacteriologist , immunologist and racial theorist .

Life

Bail studied natural sciences and medicine at the University of Vienna until his doctorate in 1895. He entered the Hygiene Institute under Max Rubner (1854-1932) and in 1896 became assistant to Ferdinand Hueppe (1852-1938) in Prague, where he completed his habilitation in 1899 and as ao. Professor taught. In 1912 he followed Hueppe as full professor of hygiene at Karl Ferdinand University and, from 1919, German University in Prague . He was dean of the medical faculty twice.

During the First World War he served as a senior staff doctor and developed a remedy for cholera . In 1919 he co-founded the first adult education center in Eger . With lectures on health and hygiene, he joined the Sudeten German movement in Czechoslovakia. With his teacher Hueppe he promoted the sport.

In addition to bacteriology and immunology, his work also concerned aggression , which he wanted to trace back to racial hygiene . The "doctrine of aggressin" goes back to him, according to which aggressive behavior is to be combated through genetics and immunology.

Oskar Bail was a member of the Society of Sciences and Arts in Czechoslovakia and was elected a member ( matriculation number 3200 ) of the Leopoldina on January 30, 1906 .

Fonts

  • Bacteria activity in the ground. Prague 1904.
  • The problem of bacterial infection. Leipzig 1911.
  • The war in its racial hygienic meaning. 1915.
  • Microbiology textbook. With special consideration of epidemic doctrine. With the assistance of O. Bail et al. Edited by Ernst Friedberger . 1923, repr. 2011 ISBN 978-1-179-64184-3 .
  • with Stanislav Růžička : System of hygiene based on the new doctrine of well-being ( eubiotics ); Health based on eubiotics Folk culture as a foundation d. entire Volks- u. State culture. Bratislava 1927.
  • with Josef Blau : family research. Böhmerland Verlag 1927.

literature

  • Medicine and the First World War, ed. v. Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann, Herbolzheim 2003 ISBN 978-3-8255-0066-5
  • Heinz Flamm: The history of state medicine, hygiene, medical microbiology, social medicine and animal disease teaching in Austria and its representatives , Vienna 2012 ISBN 978-3-7001-7208-6
  • W. Mötsch: Personal bibliographies of the professors and lecturers in forensic medicine, obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical Faculty of the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague in the approximate period from 1880–1910 , Erlangen - Nuremberg 1972, pp. 143–57

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SURNAME Bail, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician and racial theorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Tillisch at Aussig
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1927
Place of death Prague