Theodor Gruschka

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Theodor David Gruschka (born June 27, 1888 in Mährisch Kromau , † June 25, 1967 in Jerusalem ) was a Czech-Israeli doctor in the public health service .

life and work

Theodor Gruschka was born on June 27, 1988 in Mährisch Kromau. He completed his medical studies in 1912 at the German University in Prague with a doctorate . He then worked from 1914 to 1921 as an assistant at the local hygiene institute . From 1921 to 1937 he was the city physician of Aussig . From 1937 to 1939 he was head of the Department of Social Medicine at the Prague Ministry of Health.

Together with Arnold Holitscher and Ludwig Czech , Theodor Gruschka was active in the Association of German Social Democratic Doctors in the Czechoslovak Republic and in the International Association of Socialist Doctors .

In 1939 he emigrated to Palestine , where he was director of the Hadassah Municipal Hospital in Tel Aviv until 1944 . From 1944 to 1948 he headed the Immigration Health Service of the Jewish Agency . In 1948/49 he was head of the Department of Social Medicine of the Israel Ministry of Health. From 1949 until his retirement in 1958, Theodor Gruschka was professor of social medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Magazine articles

  • Workers welfare
    • The Czechoslovak draft for the reform of the abortion law. 7th year (1932), issue 18, pp. 562-563 (digitized version )
  • The socialist doctor
    • The fight against the housing shortage from a social and hygienic point of view. Volume 3 (1927), Issue 1–2 (August), pp. 8–16 (digitized version )
    • Sport as a health service. Volume 5 (1929), Issue 4 (December), pp. 162–169 (digitized version )
    • To the Dresden hygiene exhibition. Volume 6 (1930), Issue 3 (July), pp. 100–101 (digitized version )
    • Social hygiene in education and school. 7th year (1931), issue 5–6 (May – June), pp. 148–151 (digitized version )
    • Together with Arnold Holitscher . To found the socialist medical international. 7th year (1931), issue 11 (November), pp. 300–305 (digitized version )
    • Health care tasks in the fight against childhood tuberculosis. Volume 8 (1932), Issue 2–3 (February – March), pp. 33–41 (digitized version )
  • International medical bulletin
    • The awakening of the primitives. The vivisection of the proletariat. Volume 1 (1934), Issue 3–4 (March – April), pp. 43–50 (digitized version )
    • German doctors. Volume 1 (1934), Issue 10–11 (October – November), pp. 161–163 (digitized version )
    • The decision of the spiritual people at this time. On the memorandum of the German University in Prague. Against the “National Student Union” of the University of Prague. Volume 2 (1935), Issue 5–6 (May – June), pp. 67–73 (digitized version )
    • A new German medicine. Volume 2 (1935), Issue 7 (September), pp. 87-92 (digitized version )
    • Current tasks in the health sector. Volume 3 (1936), Issue 7–8 (August – September), pp. 97–102 (digitized version )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Gruschka. About a sensitive method of the Weilkafkas hemolysin reaction . In: Klinische Wochenschrift, July 1924, Volume 3, Issue 29, pp. 1322-1323
  2. ↑ Together with Kamill Kohn: US patent for the production of a bactericidal surface. June 21, 1932 (digitized version)
  3. ^ The Prague Minister of Health was Ludwig Czech from 1935 to 1938 : Dr. Ludwig Czech. In: Internationales Ärztliches Bulletin , 5th year (1938), Issue 3–4 (April-May), p. 33 (digitized version)
  4. ↑ Put an end to efforts to harmonize. In: Internationales Ärztliches Bulletin , 5th year (1938), Issue 1–2 (January-February), pp. 1–4 (here: p. 3) (digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Gruschka, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruschka, Theodor david (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-Israeli doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Kromau
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1967
Place of death Jerusalem