Stefan Engel (medical doctor)

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Stefan Engel (born November 7, 1878 in Reichenbach , Province of Silesia , † February 22, 1968 in London ) was a British pediatrician of German-Jewish origin.

Life

Stefan Engel, graduated from Reichenbacher Gymnasium in 1897 , studied medicine at the universities of Breslau , Würzburg and Munich from 1898 , which he completed in 1902 with the state examination. After an assistantship at the Pathological Anatomy Department of the University of Breslau promotion he there in 1904 to Dr. med. In the following year he received a senior physician position with Arthur Schloßmann at the infant home in Dresden , in 1907 he switched to the newly founded children's and infant hospital of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. In 1910 he completed his habilitation there as a private lecturer in paediatrics, and in 1912 he was appointed associate professor .

After Angels in the First World War as a Surgeon in Russia , Poland and France , awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class and other orders, had served, he became head of the Children's Hospital in March 1918 City Hospital in Dortmund transferred. In 1930 he founded the journal Child Medical practice , 1933, he was after the seizure of power of the National Socialists dismissed from the hospital service. Engel then worked as an unpaid chief physician at the Jewish Polyclinic in Berlin before emigrating to Great Britain in 1936 , where he found a job at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Stefan Engel - he was accepted as a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London - was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne , honorary citizenship of the city of Düsseldorf , honorary memberships of the German Tuberculosis Society and the Rhenish-Westphalian Tuberculosis Society after 1963 as well as the German Society for Pediatrics . At the beginning of his scientific career, Engel dealt intensively with the pathology and therapy of tuberculosis in childhood, whereby he recognized that fresh air leads to improvement in the course of the disease. As the chief hospital doctor, he was committed to modernizing and expanding the clinic, for example day nurseries and day nurseries were set up.

The German Society for Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine e. In his memory, V. launched the Stefan Engel Prize, endowed with 5000 euros, donated by the Kircheim Verlag Mainz.

Fonts

  • About the relationships between trauma and growth in the brain. Wroclaw Cooperative Printing Works, 1904. (Dissertation)
  • The pathology of childhood tuberculosis. 1909.
  • Infant Education Floor Plan: A Guide for Sisters. 2nd edition, Bergmann, 1915.
  • Infant feeding: a brief presentation of practical use for students and doctors. Bergmann, 1917.
  • Occult tuberculosis in childhood, presented on the basis of clinical and experimental studies. JA Barth, 1923.
  • Constitutional anomalies and metabolic diseases as well as diseases of the blood and blood-supplying organs and digestive diseases beyond infancy. G. Thieme, 1924.
  • With Marie Baum : Outline of infant studies and childcare. 13th edition, Bergmann, 1927.
  • With Ludwig Schall : Handbook of X-ray diagnosis and therapy in childhood, with the participation of specialist colleagues. G. Thieme, 1932.

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personal data
SURNAME Angel, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pediatrician of German-Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1968
Place of death London