Paul Stephani

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Paul Wilhelm Hermann Stephani (born September 11, 1870 in Mannheim , † 1947 in Heidelberg ) was a German doctor who campaigned for hygiene in schools .

Life

Stephani attended high school in Mannheim. After graduating from high school, he began to study medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1890 he became active in the Corps Franconia Tübingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . 1895 doctorate he in Tübingen Dr. med. He then practiced as a country doctor for six years .

After further training in bacteriology , pathology and psychiatry in Heidelberg as well as ophthalmology and surgery in the Mannheim City Hospital , he was appointed the first full-time school doctor in Germany in Mannheim in 1904 . In 1904, he introduced general parental consultations into the Mannheim school system created by Joseph Anton Sickinger . In 1911 he began to introduce school child welfare, which included X-ray examinations to diagnose tuberculosis and child recovery care. Later he expanded the activity to include all teaching institutions including the Mannheim Commercial College .

From 1908 Stephani was managing director and publisher of the magazine for school health care and social hygiene . He was co-editor of the encyclopedia manual of child protection and youth welfare , board member of the German Association for School Health Care and the Association of Local, School and Welfare Doctors. He was chairman of the Association of School and Welfare Doctors in Baden and the Baden State Committee for Child Recreation. In 1934 he took early retirement.

During World War I he was a medical officer on the Western Front (World War I) and medical officer in command in Antwerp . On the Eastern Front (World War I) he was in Romania and Russia from 1915 to 1917 , most recently as a medical officer in Sevastopol . Friedrich II. (Baden, Grand Duke) appointed Stephani to walk because of his services in fighting the devastating dysentery epidemic in 1917 . Medical Council .

Fonts

  • Health care in Mannheim , 1905. GoogleBooks
  • School hygiene , 1927
  • Why do we need health care today? Report on the 5th course of the association of German municipal, school and Welfare Doctors , 1928 (Editor)
  • Physical education in children's homes and schools - report on the 6th course of the Association of German Local, School and Welfare Doctors, together with the German Medical Association for the Promotion of Physical Exercise , 1929 (editor)
  • with Ludwig Clostermann and Theodor Heller (eds.): Enzyklopädisches Handbuch des Kinderschutz und der Jugendfürsorge , 1930

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Axel W. Bauer (2002) (PDF; 712 kB)
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 128 , 468