Philipp Keller

This article is about the doctor and writer. For the politician of the same name, see Philipp Keller (politician) .

Philipp Keller (born December 19, 1891 in Aachen ; † May 20, 1973 ibid) was a German specialist in dermatology and a writer.

Life

Keller attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Aachen, today's Einhard-Gymnasium, and graduated from high school there in 1910. He then began studying medicine in Munich , but after three semesters switched to the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin . Later he went to the University Clinic Freiburg . At the same time he enrolled in Freiburg im Breisgau for philosophy and made friends with Walter Benjamin and Christoph Friedrich Heinle , who also studied there. Inspired by this, Keller devoted himself to writing in addition to his further medical career.

During the First World War , Keller was hired as a field medical officer . On February 14, 1917 he received his doctorate under Hans Oehler with the thesis The surgical treatment of ulcus ventriculi and its subsequent conditions . Keller received his license to practice medicine as early as January 25, 1917 .

In 1919, Keller got a job as an assistant at the dermatology clinic in the Maria-Hilf Hospital in Aachen under the direction of Friedrich Paulus. From 1920 to 1933 he was assistant and senior physician at the University Clinic Freiburg under the direction of Georg Alexander Rost . During this time, Keller completed his habilitation in 1924 with On the Effect of Ultraviolet Light on the Skin with special consideration of the dosage and in 1928 became a. o. Prof. appointed. In 1933 he was discharged from the university clinic in Freiburg as a senior physician because he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Thereupon Keller returned to his hometown in 1934 and established himself as a dermatologist until 1946 . In the meantime he joined the NSDAP in 1937 and also became a member of the National Socialist Medical Association , the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Sturmabteilung (SA).

After the Second World War and the corresponding denazification process , Keller was appointed chief physician and medical director of the dermatology clinic at the Aachen City Hospitals, which later became the University Clinic, in 1947. Together with his colleagues Georg Alexander Rost and Alfred Marchionini , he mainly researched in the field of tuberculosis therapy. After retiring in 1961, he practiced in his own practice for ten years. In the meantime, from 1958 to 1965, Keller took over the management of the " German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases ", which he and other colleagues founded in 1955 .

Works

Scientific writings

• The treatment of the ulcus ventriculi and its sequelae . Univ., Diss., Freiburg i. B. 1917
• About the effect of ultraviolet light on the skin with special attention to the dosage . Univ., Habilitation thesis, Freiburg i. B. 1923

Fiction

• Aachen Almanac . Fölschle, Aachen 1910
• Poor conditions . 1994, Bonn, Weidle Verlag; ISBN 978-3-931135-08-9
• Mixed feelings . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-608-95329-9 <Repr. d. Edition Leipzig 1913>
• Philipp Keller reading book. Compiled by Martin Maurach . edition virgines, Düsseldorf 2015 (Nylands Kleine Rheinische Bibliothek 8), ISBN 978-3-944011-15-8

Keller also published two stories in 1913: "Der Riese" and "Der Neuling" in expressionist magazines (cf. Die Neue Kunst, vol. 1, issue 2, p. 161 ff. And Die Revolution, vol. 1913, no. 4, sp)

literature

• Ackermann, Gregor: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, Karl Otten, Philipp Keller a. a.  : Literature between Wilhelminism and the post-war period . Weidler, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-89693-235-7
• Löhe, Heinrich: The dermatologists German language . Berth, Leipzig 1955

Web links

• Literature by and about Philipp Keller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen clinicians and their role in the Third Reich . Study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, p. 95 u. a., ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 ( pdf )