Oskar Simon (doctor)
Oskar Simon (born January 2, 1845 in Berlin , † March 2, 1882 in Breslau ) was a German dermatologist .
Life
Simon grew up as the son of a bookseller, who died in 1856, in Berlin, where he also completed his medical studies after attending grammar school. After the state examination and doctorate (subject: “The self-turning of the fruit” ), he did his one-year military service from 1868 and took part in the Franco-German War as a junior doctor in 1870/71 .
From 1871 to 1873 Simon stayed in Vienna, where he received his specialist training from Ferdinand von Hebra , the founder of modern dermatology. He then returned to Berlin, where he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer with a thesis entitled “On the Localization of Skin Diseases” .
In 1876 he married a relative from Hamburg, and in the same year his stomach ailment made itself felt, which was probably of tuberculous origin and led to his early death.
In 1878 Simon was appointed to the chair of dermatology and syphilis at the University of Wroclaw as a vacancy substitute in Breslau and at the same time was entrusted with the establishment and establishment of a clinic for skin diseases and syphilis in the All Saints Hospital. His assistant was Albert Neisser .
In the summer of 1881 he stayed in England for health reasons, where he was elected to the commission founded by Lucius Duncan Bulkley for the revision of the systematics and nomenclature of dermatoses. A death in a woman's family made her return to Germany necessary. Back in Breslau, Simon's health deteriorated; he held his lectures until November 29th, after which he was bedridden. An apparent improvement in his suffering after his 37th birthday did not last, and Simon died in early March 1882. He was buried in Berlin at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .
Works (selection)
- 1872: On the anatomy of the Xanthoma palpebrarum together with E. Geber.
- 1873: The localization of skin diseases, treated histologically and clinically (habilitation). Berlin, Hirschwald
- 1876: About the Molluscum Contagiosum (lecture to the Physilogoschen Gesellschaft zu Breslau, held on May 19)
- 1878: On multiple cachectic skin gangrene (lecture at the Society for Patriotic Culture in Breslau, held on September 20)
- 1879: About Prurigo and the treatment of it with pilocarpine (lecture in the Society for Patriotic Culture in Breslau, given on July 25th)
- 1879: About the introduction of the animal vaccine (lecture in the Society for Patriotic Culture in Breslau, given on October 17th)
- 1881: About maculae coeruleae (Taches ombrées, taches bleues). Lecture with patient presentation (held in the medical section of the Society for Patriotic Culture in Wroclaw, held on April 29th)
- 1881: About Balanopostho-Mycosis (Lecture at the International Medical Congress in London)
literature
- Eduard Arning : "Nekrolog". In: Quarterly magazine for dermatology and syphilis . 1882, pp. 172-178.
Web links
- Article about Oskar Simon at jewishencyclopedia.com
- Literature by and about Oskar Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Oskar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simon, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dermatologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1882 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |