Robert Mark (medic)

Robert Emil Mark (born September 27, 1898 in Vienna-Hütteldorf ; † May 12, 1981 in Münster ) was an Austrian-German internist .

Life

Robert Mark studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1922. He qualified as a professor at the University of Cologne for pathological physiology . In 1937 he became a senior physician at the University Hospital in Münster and a non-official associate professor for internal medicine. He was a member of the Front Soldiers' Union Stahlhelm . In 1939 he became "Consultant Internist" of Military District VI and later took part in the war in Italy as such.

In 1945 there was a brief dismissal of Mark. From 1946 he continued to teach and in 1948 became a full professor at the University of Rostock . From 1957 he held this position at the University of Halle . After controversies with the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , Mark retired early in 1962 . He then taught and researched in Münster (Westphalia) until 1970. In 1957 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

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Mark dealt with spleen dysfunction , "circulatory regulation when changing position and with vegetative disorders". From 1939 to 1944 Mark worked on Kurt Gutzeit's "Comparative Therapy", for which he was criticized in 1946. In the 1960s in the Federal Republic of Germany, he advocated the establishment of 'Research Units' [...] in which intensive clinical research should be made possible within special clinics. "

Web links

Entry on Robert Mark in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Entry on Robert Mark in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Entry on Robert Mark in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on January 26, 2017)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Harro Jenss and Markus M. Lerch: Meetings of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS): The Presidents from 1914 to 2014. ( Memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Published in Commissioned by the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS) (DGVS), p. 34.
↑ Member entry of Robert E. Mark at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 31, 2016.
^ Christian Sammer, Hans-Georg Hofer: Project VT. Paul Martini, Kurt Gutzeit and “Comparative Therapy”, 1939–1949. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal , 55 (2020), pp. 2–46.

personal data
SURNAME	Mark, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mark, Robert Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-German internist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna-Hütteldorf
DATE OF DEATH	May 12, 1981
Place of death	Muenster

[cph-1] Entry on Robert Mark in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on January 26, 2017)

[dgvs-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Harro Jenss and Markus M. Lerch: Meetings of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS): The Presidents from 1914 to 2014. ( Memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Published in Commissioned by the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS) (DGVS), p. 34.

[3] Member entry of Robert E. Mark at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 31, 2016.

[4] Christian Sammer, Hans-Georg Hofer: Project VT. Paul Martini, Kurt Gutzeit and “Comparative Therapy”, 1939–1949. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal , 55 (2020), pp. 2–46.