Paul Mathes

Paul Mathes

Paul Mathes (born January 20, 1871 in Vienna , † June 24, 1923 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician .

After studying medicine , he did his doctorate at the University of Vienna under Emil Zuckerkandl . Mathes became a student of Anton Eiselsberg in Königsberg . Under von Alfons von Rosthorn he worked in Prague and Graz until 1907 . Mathes became a private lecturer and professor at the University of Graz before he was appointed full professor at the University of Innsbruck . From 1920 to 1922 he was President of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics and organized its congress in Innsbruck in 1922 . Paul Mathes committed suicide in 1923 at the age of 52.

Mathes was the first German-speaking gynecologist to deal intensively with the role of constitution in gynecology and to draw up therapy guidelines. His most important publication on the subject appeared a year after his death.

Fonts (selection)

• Paul Mathes: On the morphology of the mesenteric formations in amphibians. Dissertation , University of Vienna 1895
• Paul Mathes, Hans Guggisberg : The constitutional types of women, especially the intersexual type. In: Josef Halban , Ludwig Seitz : Biology and pathology of women. Volume 3, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1924
• Paul Mathes: Infantilism, asthenia and their relationship to the nervous system. Karger 1912
• Paul Mathes: Midwifery Textbook. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1908

literature

• Ulrike Klöppel: XX0XY unsolved: Hermaphroditism, sex and gender in German medicine . Springer Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-211-79959-1 ( full text in the Google book search).
• Hans Ludwig , Walter Jonat : German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics - From Program to Embassy. A short history (1886-2008) of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics reviewing its 57 congresses. 2nd edition 2008. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISBN 3-00-009676-0