Peter Rona

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Peter Rona , maiden name Peter Rosenfeld (* 13. May 1871 in Budapest ; † February or March 1945 ) was a from Hungary originating German Jewish physician and physiologist .

Life

Born as Peter Rosenfeld Rona studied after school medicine and began after his promotion to Doctor of Medicine in 1905 working as a lecturer at the Veterinary University of Berlin . In the same year he founded the chemical and bacteriological laboratory of the Am Urban Hospital together with Leonor Michaelis and was its director in the following years.

In 1920 he completed his habilitation at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , before he was appointed Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1921 as the successor to Leonor Michaelis . At the same time he took over Michaelis' function as head of the chemical-bacteriological laboratory at the Institute for Pathology at the Charité . Most recently, Franz Theodor von Brücke was one of his assistants .

Due to his Jewish origins, he lost these positions with the beginning of the Nazi era in 1933 and emigrated to Hungary in 1938 . There he was saved from deportation to a concentration camp in 1944 with the help of the Swedish Embassy on the initiative of Raoul Wallenberg . The circumstances of his death in February or March 1945 are unclear. He was one of the nine members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , who lost their lives during the Nazi era. The documents in the Leopoldina archive name Auschwitz as the place of death.

He was married to Elisabet Róna-Sklarek (1872-1945), who in 1901 published Hungarian folk tales. She died with him in 1945.

Honors

  • A memorial stele of the Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) in memory of nine members of the academy who were murdered in the concentration camps of the National Socialists or died of the inhuman and cruel conditions of the camp imprisonment also commemorates Peter Rona.

Publications

Rona has written numerous articles and specialist books on physiological-chemical topics and applied physical chemistry . His most famous publications include:

  • Physiological chemistry internship: Part 1. Fermentation methods , 1926
  • (with Hans Kleinmann): Practical course in physiological chemistry, part 2: Blood Horn , Berlin: Julius Springer 1929
  • Practical course in physiological chemistry: Part 3. Metabolism a. Energy change , co-author Hugo Wilhelm Knipping , 1928
  • Practical course in physical chemistry, especially colloid chemistry for physicians and biologists , co-author Leonor Michaelis, 4th edition, 1930

In addition, between 1923 and 1934 he was editor of the reports on the entire physiology and experimental pharmacology and the annual reports on the entire physiology and experimental pharmacology .

literature

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabet Róna-Sklarek at dnb and worldcat
  2. ↑ Leopoldina erects a stele in memory of Nazi victims (2009)
  3. ↑ see data of the book in the DNB under DNB, catalog of the German National Library .
personal data
SURNAME Rona, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenfeld, Peter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH February 1945 or March 1945
Place of death Budapest