Süssmann lively
Süssmann Munter (born September 17, 1897 in Kolomea , Austria-Hungary ; died January 20, 1973 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli doctor and medical historian.
Life
Süssmann Munter was a son of Mariasse Munter and the businessman Jakob Munter. He had two younger brothers, the brother Emil was a victim of the Holocaust . The family moved to Berlin in 1902 . In the First World War Munter was a soldier in the Austrian army . From 1919 he studied medicine in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1925. He was active in the Cartel of Jewish Associations (KJV) and was co-founder and Vice President of the Maccabi World Union in 1921 and was editor of the Maccabi Journal until 1925 . In 1925 he became an assistant doctor at the Reinickendorf Clinic , and in 1926 at the University's Hygiene Institute. Munter ran his own medical practice in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1927 and married Nelly Taussik from Brno in 1931.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Munter emigrated to Palestine and opened a medical practice there. Munter was on board the Pan York in 1947 as ship's doctor , which was supposed to bring illegal immigrants from Marseille to Palestine. During the War of Independence in 1948/49, Munter was the head of a Hagana military hospital in Jerusalem.
Munter was friends with the librarian Heinrich Loewe and was doing research on the history of medicine. In 1929 in Berlin he was involved in the publication of the first volume of the Hebrew "Encyclopedia Israelit". In 1947 he founded the Israel Society of the History of Medicine and Science and the medical history journal Korot together with the doctor Richard Silk in Jerusalem , which he co-edited from 1952 to 1973. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem employed him between 1958 and 1973 as a visiting lecturer in the history of medicine. Merrily researched the Jewish philosopher and doctor Maimonides and published his writings and the largely unexplored doctor Asaph .
Fonts (selection)
- About counting and measuring bacteria in suspensions (esp. Vaccines) by means of d. Kleinmann nephelometer . Berlin: Springer, 1926
- Physical exercise among the Jews . Vienna: self-published, 1926
- Maimonides : Regimen sanitatis or dietetics for the soul and the body: With appendix d. Medical responses u. Ethics d. Maimonides . German translation and introduction by Süssmann Muntner. Basel: Karger, 1966
- with Fred Rosner : The Medical Aphorisms of Moses Maimonides . New York 1970
literature
- Munter, Süssmann , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 840
- Munter, Süssmann , in: Joseph Walk (Ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 275
- Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933–1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991
- Jeschajahu Leibowitz : Professor Süssmann Munter , in: Korot, 6 (1973), Issue 3/4, pp. 143-145 (obituary, Hebrew)
- Jeschajahu Leibowitz : In Memoriam Suessmann Munter , in: Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences , 24 (1974), p. 349f.
- Ludwig Nelken : Süssman Munter, sA , in: MB bulletin of Irgun Olei Merkas Europe, February 16, 1973, p. 8 [obituary]
Web links
- Literature by and about Munṭner, Zisman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Munter, Süssmann in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Nelken, Ludwig Elasar , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 278 (also BHE2)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cheer up, Süssmann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli medical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolomea |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th January 1973 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |