Siegfried Thannhauser

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Siegfried Josef Thannhauser (born June 28, 1885 in Munich , † December 18, 1962 in Boston ) was a German-American internist.

Life

He was the son of Josef Salomon Thannhauser from a Jewish family originally residing in Mönchsdeggingen and his wife Charlotte, nee. Langermann. The art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser was his cousin.

After studying medicine , he completed his habilitation in 1917 at the University of Munich and became an expert on metabolic diseases .

In 1930 he took over the management of the Medical Clinic at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

On April 17, 1934, the Ministry of Science decreed that he was demoted to unskilled labor in accordance with Section 5 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service and transferred as such to Heidelberg University Hospital.

Thannhauser later managed to emigrate to the USA and set up a new existence in Boston. Here, together with Alfred Hauptmann, who also emigrated, he described an autosomal dominant inherited myopathy for the first time in 1941 , which is now known as Hauptmann-Thannhauser muscular dystrophy .

membership

In 1946 Thannhauser was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1953 he was a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Honors and aftermath

In 1998 a street previously named after Paul Uhlenhuth in Freiburg was renamed after him.

The German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases awards a Thannhauser Prize worth 10,000 euros (as of 2011).

Fonts

  • About the chemical structure of the nucleic acid molecule and its changes in the human metabolism. [sl]: [sn] (Munich: Wolf) 1917 (Habil.)
  • Textbook of metabolism and metabolic diseases. Munich: JF Bergmann 1929
  • The importance of tradition for training to be a doctor. Freiburg: Speyer & Kaerner 1932
  • Metabolic problems. Berlin: J. Springer, 1934
  • (with Alfred Hauptmann): Muscular shortening and dystrophy. A heredofamilial disease . In: Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 1941; 654: Vol 46th - 664
  • Thannhauser's textbook on metabolism and metabolic diseases. Stuttgart: Thieme 1957, 2nd edition.

literature

  • Alan F. Hofmann & Nepomuk Zöllner: Siegfried Thannhauser (1885–1962): A life as a doctor and researcher in turbulent times. Falk Foundation, Freiburg 2000, 2nd new. Edition 2001 ISBN 3-933186-10-2 (with bibliography)
  • Rudolf Nissen : Siegfried Thannhauser 1885 - 1962 in: Zs. Medical Clinic, vol. 58, 1963, p. 268, again in this: Fifty years of experienced surgery. Selected lectures & writings Schattauer, Stuttgart 1978 ISBN 3794506154 pp. 349–351

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Seidler: The Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau: Fundamentals and developments, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg 1993, p. 314 ; Nissen, p. 350: “The Freiburg era, full of results and plans, is ended by the Nazi regime. He remains in his position for another year, exposed to intrigues and harassment ... "
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved October 11, 2015
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Siegfried Thannhauser. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on June 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Thannhauser, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thannhauser, Siegfried Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American internist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1962
Place of death Boston