Otto Rostoski

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Otto Albert Robert Rostoski (born September 4, 1872 in Wendemark , † January 10, 1962 in Dresden ) was a German internist . He is considered a pioneer in diabetes therapy and lung cancer researcher who has had a decisive influence on the development of internal medicine in Germany.

Life

The son of a domain tenant grew up in the Uckermark and graduated from high school in Poznan . He then studied at the University of Würzburg medicine . During his studies, Rostoski became a member of the Landsmannschaft Saxonia student union (today: Landsmannschaft Alemannia-Makaria ). His teachers include his uncle Eduard von Rindfleisch and Wilhelm von Leube . After completing his doctorate , Rostoski received further training at a hygienic institute and a pulmonary hospital. In 1902 he received his habilitation at the age of 29 . Before he was appointed associate professor in Würzburg in 1907 , he was traveling around Europe as a lecture traveler.

From 1910 to 1934 Otto Rostoski was the senior physician in charge of the internal department of the Dresden-Johannstadt City Hospital , the predecessor of today's Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital . Here in 1915 he laid the foundation stone for an X-ray station and in 1924 founded the first diabetic outpatient clinic in at least Europe, which received international attention. His outpatient clinic, which he built five years after the discovery of the insulin preparation , became a model for the establishment of similar institutions in Europe. Together with Georg Schmorl and Erich Saupe , he published a description of the causes and the course of Schneeberg lung cancer in 1927 , which also brought him worldwide recognition. In 1934 Rostoski was transferred to the Friedrichstadt hospital, where he left in 1938 after reaching the age limit. When the Second World War broke out, he was the chief physician of the reserve hospital in Lahmann's sanatorium . In 1941 he was given the management of a newly established medical clinic in the former homeless asylum in Bodelschwinghstrasse. In 1946 he again became chief physician in Friedrichstadt. Although he resigned this office in 1952, he still ran the diabetic outpatient clinic until 1956. In 1954 Rostoski was appointed professor of internal medicine at the newly founded "Carl Gustav Carus" Medical Academy in Dresden and in 1956 he retired. He cared for patients until he was 85.

He found his final resting place in the Dresden forest cemetery Weißer Hirsch . In his place of birth, a street named after him commemorates his work.

Otto Rostoski Prize

Since 2001, the Tumor Center Dresden has awarded the Otto Rostoski Prize to people or institutions who do extraordinary things in the fields of research, prophylaxis, early detection, diagnosis, therapy of tumor diseases as well as follow-up care, rehabilitation or psychosocial care for tumor patients. The prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, is awarded every two years.

Awards

Works

  • About Echinococcus multilocularis hepatis . Dissertation, Würzburg 1896
  • For knowledge of the precipitins . Habilitation thesis, Würzburg 1902
  • The serum diagnostics . Stuber, Würzburg 1903
  • General part , in Handbook of Internal Medicine , 1st Edition, Volume 1 (Infectious Diseases), Springer 1911

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personal data
SURNAME Rostoski, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rostoski, Otto Albert Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Wendemark , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1962
Place of death Dresden