Roman August Adelheim
Roman August Adelheim (born August 2, 1881 in Reval , † November 7, 1938 in Riga ) was a Baltic German physician and pathologist.
life and work
Adelheim was born in Reval in 1881 as the son of a lawyer. After attending the Nikolai grammar school in his hometown, he studied medicine at the Imperial University of Dorpat , where he received his doctorate in 1908. med. PhD. He was a member of Estonia From 1907 to 1910, he worked as a prosector assistant at the Pathological Institute in Dorpat. In 1909 he stayed in Berlin for scientific work . From 1912 to 1913 Adelheim was a volunteer assistant at the Pathological Institute of the Hospital in Munich , in 1913 at the Institute for Infectious Diseases Robert Koch in Berlin and finally at the Institute for Experimental Medicine in St. Petersburg. From 1914 Adelheim worked in Riga as a prosector at the 2nd city hospital, from 1918 also as a prosector at the city children's hospital and the city insane asylum in Rothenberg. He was also the head of the Pasteur Institute and the Serological Department at the 1st City Hospital in Riga. From 1918 to 1931 he was a member of the city health commission.
After three months in Bolshevik imprisonment in 1919, he was deputy lecturer from 1920 to 1923, from 1923 to 1925 lecturer and from 1925 to 1938 full professor of pathological anatomy and director of the pathological institute of the Latvian University in Riga. In 1923 he became Vice President, then President of the Society of General Practitioners. Since 1938 Adelheim was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Adelheim wrote numerous treatises on pathological anatomy and health care.
literature
- OKR - Foundation of German Culture in Eastern Europe: Adelheim, Roman. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Roman August Adelheim. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Member entry of novel Adelsheim in German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Individual evidence
- ↑ ALBUM ESTONORUM, edited by the Philistine Association of Estonia. Tallinn 1939. No. 1082.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adelheim, Roman August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian medic and pathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval (today: Tallin) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1938 |
| Place of death | Riga |