Siegfried Kalischer

Siegfried Kalischer, around 1900

Siegfried Kalischer (pseudonym Rolf Leidfried , born May 7, 1862 in Thorn , † March 31, 1954 in Copenhagen ) was a German neurologist . In 1897, he described the clinical signs of Sturge-Weber syndrome , also known as Sturge-Kalischer-Weber syndrome.

Life

Siegfried Kalischer was born the son of Jacob Loebel Kalischer (? 1833–1913) in Thorn in 1862. His grandfather Loebel Kalischer (* 1799 in Lyssa, † 1891 in Berlin) came to Berlin from Thorn and was the brother of Zwi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874). He had two brothers, Albert (1867–1913) and Leopold (1858–?), And at least four sisters. His cousin Otto Kalischer (* 1873, † after 1938) was also a neurologist.

He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg and at the University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1885. From 1886 to 1890 he was assistant to Emanuel Mendel at the mental hospital in Berlin-Pankow . He then worked for a year as a ship's doctor in East and West India.

Siegfried Kalischer had been running a private practice since 1891 and from 1898 was the chief physician at the Hubertus Kurhaus in Berlin-Schlachtensee. His best known patient was Martha Fontane . He was a member of the Berlin Medical Society, the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Neurology and the Berlin Psychiatric Association. In 1912 he became a medical councilor . He was an employee of Max Lewandowsky .

His name was still listed in the Berlin address book in 1937 - he had already emigrated to Denmark in 1936. There is no further information, particularly about his time in exile in Denmark.

Kalischer was married twice, first to his cousin Thekla Kalischer (1872-1902), then to Elin Henriques. His daughter from his first marriage, the doctor Irmgard Kalischer (1898–1979) was married to the classical philologist Georg Rohde (1899–1960) for the second time .

In 1903 Kalischer published the volume of poetry "Von Liebe, und Tod" under the pseudonym Rolf Leidfried in Verlag K. Siegismund. In 1912 a second volume of poetry with the title "Einsame Seelen" followed by the same publisher.

Fonts

On the question of the influence of hereditary stress on the development, course and prognosis of mental disorders. Jacoby, Berlin 1885.
A case of subacute nuclear ophthalmoplegia and limb paralysis with autopsy findings. (Polio-mesencephalo-myelitis subacuta). In: German journal for neurology. 6, 3-4, 1895, pp. 252-312. doi: 10.1007 / BF01673516
A case of (influenza) psychosis in early childhood. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 29, 1, 1896, pp. 231-248. doi: 10.1007 / BF02961679
About congenital muscle defects. In: Neurological Centralblatt. 1896.
For the casuistry of asthenic (bulbar) paralysis or myasthenia pseudoparalytica. In: German journal for neurology. 10, 3-4, 1897, pp. 321-334. doi: 10.1007 / BF01668175
Demonstration of the brain of a child with telangiectasia of the left facial scalp and surface of the brain. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift . 34, 1897, pp. 1059-1067.
What can we do for the instruction and upbringing of our weakly gifted and feeble-minded children? Oehmigke, Berlin 1897.
A case of telangiectasia (angioma) of the face and soft meninges. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 34, 1, 1901, pp. 171-180. doi: 10.1007 / BF01960295
Clinical Notes of a New Bromine Preparation. In: Clinical Excerpts. 15, 1909, pp. 85-87. (link)
Beyond the limits of psychotherapy. In: Annual report on the achievements and advances in the field of neurology and psychiatry. 20, 1916, pp. 71-76.
Angioma cerebri. In: German Medical Weekly. 48.
A new clinical picture (radio mania). In: Radio-Umschau. 1925, p. 326.
The Relationship of Tetany to Epilepsy. In: Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. 78, 1, 1926, pp. 168-182. doi: 10.1007 / BF01996617
About the neuralgia of the phrenic nerve. Phrenic or diaphragmatic neuralgia. In: Clinical weekly. 7, 7, 1928, pp. 314-315. doi: 10.1007 / BF01850039
About a myeloma of the skull and the relationship of the myeloma to the nervous system. In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. 117, 1928, p. 424.
About myeloma. In: Księga jubileuszowa Edwarda Flataua. Gebethner i Wolff, Warszawa 1929, pp. 232–242.
Lethargic encephalitis and arteriosclerosis. In: Clinical weekly. 8, 17, 1929, pp. 790-791. doi: 10.1007 / BF01737700

Individual evidence

^ Salomon Wininger: Big Jewish National Biography: With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women of all times and countries. Volume 3, 1936, p. 379.
↑ Hubertus Averbeck: From the cold water cure to physical therapy: considerations on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century. Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 , p. 79, note 145.
↑ S. Kalischer: Demonstration of the brain of a child with telangiectasia of the left facial scalp and brain surface. In: Berl Klin Wochenschr. 34, 1897, pp. 1059-1067.
↑ Noel HM Burke: Sturge-Kalischer-Weber Syndrome. In: Br Med J. 2 (4575), 1948, p. 531. PMC 2091531 (free full text)
↑ P. Kalisch: On the history of the Kremnitzer-Kalischer-Kalisch family. In: Arthur Czellitzer (Hrsg.): Jewish family research . Volume 4, No 35-37, 1934, pp. 713-740.
↑ Jürgen Peiffer : Hirnforschung in Deutschland 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as the influence of the political environment on scientists . Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-40690-5 , p. 1086.
↑ ^a ^b Regina Diterle: The daughter. Carl Hanser, 2006, ISBN 3-446-20774-0 , pp. 317-318, 375.
^ E. Gurlt: Negotiations of the Berlin Medical Society. Volume XXIX, L. Schumacher, Berlin 1899, p. Xxvi. (PDF)
↑ Ulrike Eisenberg: From “Nerve Plexus” to “Soul Power”: Work and Fate of the Berlin neurologist Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863–1940). (= Berlin contributions to the history of science. Volume 10). Peter Lang - European Science Publishers, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, ISBN 3-631-54147-3 , pp. 409-410.

personal data
SURNAME	Kalischer, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leidfried, Rolf. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thorn
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1954
Place of death	Copenhagen

[wininger-1] Salomon Wininger: Big Jewish National Biography: With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women of all times and countries. Volume 3, 1936, p. 379.

[2] Hubertus Averbeck: From the cold water cure to physical therapy: considerations on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century. Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 , p. 79, note 145.

[3] S. Kalischer: Demonstration of the brain of a child with telangiectasia of the left facial scalp and brain surface. In: Berl Klin Wochenschr. 34, 1897, pp. 1059-1067.

[4] Noel HM Burke: Sturge-Kalischer-Weber Syndrome. In: Br Med J. 2 (4575), 1948, p. 531. PMC 2091531 (free full text)

[5] P. Kalisch: On the history of the Kremnitzer-Kalischer-Kalisch family. In: Arthur Czellitzer (Hrsg.): Jewish family research . Volume 4, No 35-37, 1934, pp. 713-740.

[6] Jürgen Peiffer : Hirnforschung in Deutschland 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as the influence of the political environment on scientists . Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-40690-5 , p. 1086.

[diterle-7] Regina Diterle: The daughter. Carl Hanser, 2006, ISBN 3-446-20774-0 , pp. 317-318, 375.

[8] E. Gurlt: Negotiations of the Berlin Medical Society. Volume XXIX, L. Schumacher, Berlin 1899, p. Xxvi. (PDF)

[9] Ulrike Eisenberg: From “Nerve Plexus” to “Soul Power”: Work and Fate of the Berlin neurologist Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863–1940). (= Berlin contributions to the history of science. Volume 10). Peter Lang - European Science Publishers, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, ISBN 3-631-54147-3 , pp. 409-410.