Rudolf Stern (physician)
Rudolf Stern (* 1895 ; † 1962 ) was a German doctor .
family
Rudolf Stern was the son of the doctor Richard Stern , a doctor and university professor known in Breslau .
Stern took part in World War I as an officer and received the Iron Cross first and second class , but became a staunch pacifist after the war.
In April 1919 Rudolf Stern had been married to Käthe Brieger , who had a doctorate in physics and who later made a name for herself as a mathematics didactic. The couple had two children, daughter Toni and son Fritz . This is named after his godfather Fritz Haber , with whom Rudolf Stern maintained a close friendship.
Professional
Rudolf Stern studied medicine and then worked from May 1921 to October 1923 under Herbert Freundlich at the Haber's Institute and worked in the field of colloid chemistry . At the same time, Haber transferred the position of family doctor to him, with which Stern expanded his activities as a practicing doctor. He then became an associate professor at the University of Wroclaw. In the fall of 1925, on the suggestion of his teacher Oskar Minkowski , Stern became a private lecturer in internal medicine in Breslau. In 1930 Rudolf Stern moved from the university to the polyclinic.
According to another source, he was a professor at Berlin University from 1925 to 1933.
He emigrated to the USA in 1938 and died there in November 1962.
Relationship with Fritz Haber
Rudolf Stern and Fritz Haber met for the first time in 1913 in the castle hotel of a Swiss health resort. In January 1921 they met again in Oberschreiberhau, where Haber was staying in a sanatorium. As a thank you for Stern's help, Haber offered him an assistant position at his institute, which Stern then accepted. Years of close friendship developed between Haber and Stern. The last meeting between Stern and Haber took place on January 29, 1934, on the eve of Haber's death in Basel.
literature
Dietrich Stoltzenberg: Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Prize Winner, German, Jew. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 1994, ISBN 3-527-29206-3 , pp. 378-383.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nathan Koren: Jewish Physicians. John Wiley & Sons, 1973, ISBN 978-0-706-51269-4 , p. 253 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stern, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1895 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1962 |