Rudolf Stahl (physician)
Rudolf Stahl (born March 8, 1889 in Breslau ; † October 11, 1986 in Braunschweig ) was a German internist and professor .
Life
Stahl grew up in Breslau and passed the Abitur examination there in 1908 at the Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium . He then studied in his hometown of medicine and was with the Corps Silesia active. In 1915 he received his doctorate under Joseph Forschbach and Julius Pohl at the University of Breslau . After a brief activity as a medical intern in Berlin, he worked as a field doctor during the First World War . After the war he worked as an assistant to Hans Curschmann at the medical clinic in Rostock. There he completed his habilitation in internal medicine in 1924, and in 1926 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Rostock .
From 1929 to 1946 he was the chief physician at the Bethanien Hospital in Breslau. There, after the surrender of the Wehrmacht, he succeeded in negotiating with the Russian commander Matwei Wassiljewitsch Sakharov to demine the St. Elisabeth Church, which had been mined by the German troops, and save it from destruction. Stahl then went to the West and from 1948 was chief physician at the Braunschweig Municipal Hospital .
In 1929 Stahl married the painter Ursula Schultze in Breslau and they had five children together.
Services
Stahl conducted research in the areas of blood diseases and blood transmission, bacterial heart inflammation, and proper nutrition and dietetics. His greatest scientific success was the introduction of a new form of intravenous continuous drip infusion in 1939. He was a co-founder and later an honorary member of the Northwest German Society for Internal Medicine and holder of the Ludolph Brauer Medal in gold. In 1984 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.
Fonts
- Contribution to the methodology of blood sugar determination with special consideration of the methods of Möckel-Frank and Forschbach-Severin. Medical dissertation, Breslau 1915.
- Blood transfusion as a means of therapeutic change. F. Hirt, Breslau 1937.
- The blood transfusion in internal medicine (= lectures from practical medicine. H. 28). Enke, Stuttgart 1952.
- (Ed.) Optimal nutrition for the healthy. Hansisches Verlags-Kontor, Lübeck 1954.
literature
- Horst Reichel : Obituary for Rudolf Stahl. In: Corps newspaper of Silesia Breslau to Cologne and Aachen. 67th volume (1987), issue 173, pp. 36-39.
- Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 47 of February 24, 1973, p. 7 (message about the award of the brewer medal).
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Stahl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Rudolf Stahl in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catalog card for the dissertation , dissertation catalog of the University Library of Basel , accessed on December 17, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stahl, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German internist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1986 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |