Oskar Lassar

Oskar Lassar (born January 11, 1849 in Hamburg , † December 21, 1907 in Berlin ) was a German physician who mainly devoted himself to questions of hygiene and was instrumental in the spread of public baths in Germany and Austria.

Life

Lassar came from a Jewish family; his father was a businessman in Hamburg . He studied medicine in Heidelberg , Göttingen , Strasbourg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1872. After a short period as an assistant in the dermatology clinic of the Berlin Charité , he opened a private clinic for dermatology and syphilis in Berlin . As one of the first doctors of his time, he tried to X-rays to use therapeutically. As a dermatologist, he developed a zinc paste to treat eczema that is still used today.

Lassar was particularly interested in improving hygienic conditions, especially for the lower classes of the population. He was instrumental in the establishment of disinfection facilities and the so-called public shower baths , which he had presented to the public in 1883 at the hygiene exhibition in Berlin. In 1899 he founded the German Society for Public Baths . In 1902 he became a professor at the University of Berlin, one of his pupils was the dermatologist Georgios Fotinos .

Oskar Lassar was the founder of the dermatological journal and was its first editor-in-chief until his death in 1907. He was married to a woman named Emma and had a son, Gerhard Lassar .

tomb

His grave is in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof II on Liesenstrasse .

literature

Julius Pagel : Lassar, Oskar , in: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901, Sp. 962–964.
Otto Winkelmann: Lassar, Oscar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 669 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ Hoffmann E. Foreword to Volume 25 of the Dermatological Journal. A review and outlook on the development of dermatology. Dermatological Journal 1918; 25: 1-8
^ Rainer Nicolaysen: Lassar, Gerhard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 181 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lassar, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 1907
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hoffmann E. Foreword to Volume 25 of the Dermatological Journal. A review and outlook on the development of dermatology. Dermatological Journal 1918; 25: 1-8

[2] Rainer Nicolaysen: Lassar, Gerhard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 181 .