Paul Rosenstein

Paul Rosenstein (born July 26, 1875 in Graudenz , † September 21, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a German urologist .

Life

The son of a rabbi attended high school in his hometown. After studying medicine in Berlin and Königsberg (doctorate in 1898), his medical and operative training was typically carried out first with the pathologist Ernst Neumann (1834-1918) and then with the gynecologist Georg Winter (1856-1946) and the surgeon Anton von Eiselsberg (1860 –1939) in Koenigsberg. According to his own statement, Paul Rosenstein was the first Jewish assistant doctor in both the women's clinic and the surgical clinic. Later he received his urological training from the pioneer of operative kidney surgery James Israel (1848–1926) at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin. In 1905 he settled in Berlin and operated at the Berlin-Hasenheide / Neukölln hospital.

After the First World War with distinction Iron Cross I a. II he was first head of the polyclinic of the Jewish hospital and in 1923 successor to James Israel until he was expelled in 1938. In cooperation with the Charité, the Jewish hospital in Berlin was one of the leading research institutions for clinical medicine in the 1920s and early 1930s. He had to emigrate to New York via Amsterdam and tried in vain for a "US board certification". He therefore moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1940, where he was appointed a corresponding member at a congress of the Brazilian Urological Society in 1936. His wife and children, who had been left behind in Berlin, followed in 1940. Despite acquiring citizenship, Rosenstein was no longer able to work as a doctor in Rio de Janeiro, but remained scientifically and journalistically active. In 1954 his autobiography “Scars remain back” was published, which is characterized by high documentation value and a differentiated presentation. On July 28, 1958, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Rosenstein's scientific results are rarely associated with his name today.

Work (selection)

• Rosenstein, P. (1901) A case of implantation of the urethra into the rectum Langenb. Archive Clin. Chir 60 359 -368
• Rosenstein, P. (1925) A functional lumbar incision to expose the kidney, Z urol Chir. 17 119-126
• Rosenstein, P. (1929) Replacement of the missing urethra in the hypospadia penoscrotalis by bladder mucosa, Z Urol. 23 issue 6/7
• Rosenstein, P. The prostate hypertrophy, its detection and treatment, supplements to the medical clinic 25th year. Issue 3/4 Urban and Schwarzenberg Berlin, Vienna 1929
• Rosenstein, P., Köhler, H. (1928) On the Influence of Intestinal Paralysis by Nicotine Injection into the Celiac Ganglion, Langenb. Archiv Klin. Chir. 210 315-1335
• Rosenstein, P. (1921) Pleura Empyema and Rivanol Klin. Wschr. 4,554-548
• Rosenstein, P. (1931) New Thoughts on Carcinoma Treatment Med. Klin. 27 1095-1098
• Rosenstein, P. (1900) About cartilage and bone formation in heart valves Virch. Archive 162, 100-114
• Rosenstein, P. (1927) Actinomycosis of the urinary and genital organs in Handbuch der Urologie ed. vv Lichtenberg, A., Voelcker, F., Wildbolz, H. Special Urology, Part Two, 218–235
• Rosenstein, P. (1923) Die Pyelolithotomia anterior Z. urol. Chir. 12 269-27

literature

• F. Moll, M. Krischel, P. Rathert, H. Fangerau: Urology and National Socialism: Paul Rosenstein 1875–1964, torn biography of a Jewish urologist , 2011, Der Urologe Volume 50, September issue in print.
• Peter Voswinckel:  Rosenstein, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , pp. 73 f. ( Digitized version ).
• D. Hartung-v. Doetinchem (Ed.): Destroyed Progress, The Jewish Hospital in Berlin 1756–1861, 1914–1989 , 1989, esp. Pages 137–139.
• HP Schmiedebach, R. Winau, R. Häring: First operations in Berlin surgeons 1817–1931 , 1990.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Rosenstein in the catalog of the German National Library