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Oskar Wandel (born August 21, 1873 in Groß-Oldern near Breslau , today Iwiny ; † February 26, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German doctor ( internist ). He was the first medical director of the St. Georg Municipal Hospital in Leipzig .

Life

Wandel studied medicine in Munich and Breslau from 1891 to 1898 . With the dissertation on kidney tuberculosis with Alfred Kast he received his doctorate on April 30, 1898 in Breslau. He then worked as a pathologist and bacteriologist at the University of Basel until 1901 and as an assistant at the University of Kiel from 1902 to 1909 , where he completed his habilitation on May 28, 1903 with the thesis on Pneumococcal Localizations. In 1904 he became senior physician, and from 1907 he held a professorship.

In 1910 he went to the Plauen City Hospital as a senior doctor. In March 1913, Wandel became the first medical director and chief physician of the medical department of the newly built St. Georg Municipal Hospital in Leipzig, in whose planning he was already involved. During the First World War , a military hospital was set up in the St. Georg Hospital. There change was integrated into medical care.

In 1923, Oskar Wandel, together with his assistant Fritz Schmoeger, carried out the treatment of a diabetes mellitus patient for the first time in German-speaking countries with an insulin-like preparation that he had obtained and manufactured himself from the pancreatic tissue of a cow .

On October 31, 1929, Wandel took early retirement due to illness. At the age of 61 he died in Berlin-Schöneberg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oskar change, Fritz Schmoeger: About the treatment of diabetes with pancreatic extracts (insulin). In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1923, vol. 49, pp. 1253-1255

literature

• Rolf Haupt, Karsten Güldner (Ed.): 800 years of St. Georg in Leipzig. From the hospital of the Canons' Monastery of St. Thomas to the medical and social center. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-563-5 , p. 264 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Oskar Wandel in the catalog of the German National Library