Paul Rohmer
Paul Rohmer (* 1. November 1876 in Huttenheim , † 2. March 1977 in Strasbourg ) was a from the Alsace originating pediatrician . He is considered to be the founder of modern pediatrics in northeast France .
Life
Rohmer was born the son of the farmer Albert Rohmer (1846–1912) and his wife Marie-Elizabeth Metz (1850–1935) in what was then German Huttenheim in Alsace. He studied in Strasbourg and became a doctor in 1901. In 1904 he married Marie Louise Kieffer (1880–1962), with whom he had three children Laurent (* 1904), Anne-Marie (* 1906) and Marie-Thérèse (* 1908). Marie-Thérèse died of an infection a few weeks after her birth, which Paul Rohmer intensified in his medical commitment.
Until the First World War he worked in Marburg and Cologne . There he campaigned for modern pediatrics that are closely oriented towards the mother and the family.
He served as a Prussian lieutenant during the First World War as a doctor in a hospital in Metz , but in 1914 refused to sign the Manifesto of 93 , in which the German cultural world was to show solidarity with the German warfare.
In 1919 he became the first professor of pediatrics in the new French University of Strasbourg . In 1920 he founded the "Alsatian and Lorraine Association of Infant Sisters" . The results were spectacular and in 1945 established the principle of the “National Protection of Parents and Youths” ( PMI ) throughout France .
In 1946, Rohmer and Robert Debré published the well-known book entitled “Traité de Pathologie infantile” (2,500 pages in two volumes). He was also the pediatrician for Pierre Pflimlin's children , the Belgian regents and Konrad Adenauer 's doctor .
Until 1947 Rohmer was director of the Clinic for Pediatrics in Strasbourg and worked for children and adolescents up to the age of 100. Today a street in Strasbourg is named after him, the “Rue Paul Rohmer” .
NB : Paul Rohmer was a distant nephew of the General of the Coalition Wars François-Joseph d'Offenstein (1760–1837)
Awards
- Officer of the Legion of Honor
- Commander of the French Ordre national du Mérite
- Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Commander of the Belgian Order of the Crown
- Knight of the Belgian Order of Leopold
- Several other European awards
Works
- Paul Rohmer, Robert Debré : "Traité de Pathologie infantile" ( 1946 )
- Paul Rohmer: "About bone formation in calcified endocarditic and endarteritic foci" (Volume 166/1 from October 1901 ), Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN 0945-6317
Web links
- Rohmer, Paul. Hessian biography. (As of March 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florent Grange: Biography - "Paul Rohmer une vie au service de l'enfance" . Le Verger editeur, 2005, 240 pages, ISBN 2-84574-054-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rohmer, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Alsatian pediatrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huttenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2nd 1977 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |