Selmar Aschheim

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Selmar Samuel Aschheim (born October 4, 1878 in Berlin , † February 15, 1965 in Paris ) was a German - French gynecologist and endocrinologist .

Life

He was the son of the merchant Hermann Aschheim and studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg , where he in 1902 with the thesis to knowledge of Erythrocytenbildung to Dr. med. received his doctorate . He then worked as an assistant doctor at clinics in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg and trained as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics before settling in Berlin as a gynecologist in 1905. In 1908 he began to work in the histopathological and bacteriological laboratory of the university women's clinic at the Berlin Charité . In 1912 he took over the management of the laboratory. In the First World War Aschheim worked as a military doctor.

Aschheim was a lecturer from 1930 and honorary professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin from 1931 . After the National Socialists came to power, his license to teach was withdrawn from him in February 1936 retroactively to December 31, 1935 because of his Jewish origins. Relieved of all his offices, he emigrated to France in 1937, where he became a French citizen and was employed at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris until 1957 . In 1955 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Scientific work

The main focus of Aschheim's work was the hormonal balance of women. He discovered the hormone content of the urine of pregnant women and made it possible to analyze the estrogens . Together with Bernhard Zondek he developed the Aschheim-Zondek reaction and published The Pregnancy Diagnosis from the Urine for the first time in 1928 .

literature

  • Walther Killy, Rudolph Vierhaus: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), dtv , 2002, ISBN 978-3423590532
  • Wolfgang U. Eckart : Selmar Aschheim, in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 1st edition 1995 CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Munich, 2nd edition 2001, 3rd edition 2006 (dto. Available online), Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York. Medical glossary 2006
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Aschheim, Selmar. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 109 f.
  • Peter Schneck: Selmar Aschheim (1878–1965) and Bernhard Zondeck (1891–1966). On the fate of two Jewish doctors and researchers at the Berlin Charité. In: Journal for Medical Training and Quality Assurance. Volume 91, 1997, pp. 187-194.

Web links

Commons : Selmar Aschheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selmar Aschheim: pregnancy diagnosis from the urine (through hormone detection). In: Clinical weekly. Volume 7, Issue 8 f., 1928, pp. 1404-1411 and 1453-1457.
personal data
SURNAME Aschheim, Selmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aschheim, Selmar Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1965
Place of death Paris