Rudolf Jaffé
Rudolf Jaffé (born October 14, 1885 in Berlin ; died March 13, 1975 in Caracas ) was a German-Venezuelan pathologist and university professor .
Life
Rudolf Jaffé, son of the Jewish Berlin chemist and industrialist Benno Jaffé , studied medicine in Berlin, Munich and Freiburg. In Berlin in 1905 he became a member of the Corps Marchia like his father . In 1909 and 1910 he worked at the Tropical Institute in Hamburg. He then worked as a ship's doctor in East Asia before completing training in bacteriology as an assistant at the Giessen Hygiene Institute in 1911. In 1912 he moved to the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt am Main. During the First World War he served as a military doctor in Galicia and Romania. Then he was an army pathologist in Vilna. He received the Iron Cross 2nd class. In 1919 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt and was appointed associate professor there in 1922. In 1926 he took over the management of the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute Berlin-Moabit, which he held until 1934, when he was forced to retire by the National Socialists. He had previously been expelled from his workplace in early August 1933 by the neuropathologist and National Socialist Berthold Ostertag in SA uniform.
In 1936 he emigrated to Venezuela and built the Institute for Pathology at the Hospital Vargas, Caracas, based on the German model, which today belongs to the Universidad Central de Venezuela . After the Second World War , he had unconditional contact with his former colleagues in Germany and took part in the meetings of the German Society for Pathology . 1953 retired.
Before emigrating, he worked on the lipoids in the endocrine glands, among other things . In his Venezuelan work there was a focus on infectious diseases such as schistosomiasis and syphilis .
Honors
In Entrance K of House M of Moabit Hospital , a plaque commemorates the 24 Jewish doctors who were dismissed from service by the National Socialists in 1934 through forced retirement, including Rudolf Jaffé. In 1954 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Fonts
- Guide of Pathological Anatomy for Dentists and Dentistry Students. Meusser, Berlin 1923.
- ed. with Felix Blumenfeld : Pathology of the upper respiratory tract and food tract. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1929.
- What does bilharzia cirrhosis teach us in relation to the problems of liver cirrhosis? In: Swiss Medical Weekly . Vol. 72 (1942), H. 23, pp. 1149-1154.
- The anatomical changes in syphilis in Venezuela. In: Swiss Medical Weekly. Vol. 79 (1949), H. 2, pp. 33-38.
literature
- Jaffé, Rudolf. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 837.
- Georg Dhom: History of Histopathology. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-67490-X .
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 562
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Jaffé in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lisa Kühne: Venezuelan researcher with German roots: The story of Rodolfo Jaffé , University magazine of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, July 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ K. Brass: [Rudolf Jaffé (10, 14, 1885-3, 13, 1975)]. In: Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology. ISSN 0070-4113 , Vol. 59, 1975, pp. 634-640, PMID 766487 .
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 4 , 533
- ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 446.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaffé, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Venezuelan pathologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1975 |
| Place of death | Caracas |