Tibor diamond stone

Tibor Diamantstein (born September 28, 1925 in Neumarkt am Mieresch , Transylvania , † December 5, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German-Hungarian-Jewish-Romanian immunologist and Auschwitz survivor. He was the first professor of immunology in Berlin.

Life

Diamantstein was born the third child of a wealthy family and attended Bolyai High School in his hometown. In 1944 he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp with his parents and two sisters. His parents and a sister were killed in Auschwitz, he and his sister Eva survived and returned to Neumarkt. He decided to leave Romania , initially he wanted to emigrate to Australia .

However, he stayed in Munich, where he met former comrades in suffering from the Auschwitz concentration camp and had to spend several months in a sanatorium because of pulmonary tuberculosis . In Munich he also met his future wife, the pastor's daughter Ruth Elsell . He began to study biochemistry in Munich, his wife studied law. They had three children of their own, but also took a fourth child of a former SS member into the family. In 1959 Diamantstein received his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich , where he continued to work as a research assistant. He did research on problems with calcium metabolism. In 1964 Diamantstein completed his habilitation in veterinary biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin , and in 1965 he completed his habilitation in Physiological Chemistry at the Medical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin.

He was then appointed director of the biochemical and immunological laboratories of the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in Berlin's Westend Hospital.

In 1968 he was one of the first scientists to move into the newly built Steglitz Clinic of the FU. Now began a "fruitful and successful time in which Tibor Diamantstein contributed to the emergence and development of modern immunology".

Between 1959 and 1970 alone 317 publications emerged from his working group. From 1969 he began research on immunology: He researched the stimulation of the humoral immune response by polyanions and the possibilities of breaking immunological tolerance by the administration of polyanions. Furthermore, he demonstrated the existence of various B-cell subpopulations. In 1987 the Institute for Immunology was founded at what was then the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin, Diamantstein was its first director and appointed C4 professor. The Steglitz Clinic is now part of the Berlin Charité.

In 2006 a memorial symposium for diamond stone took place, a Charité building on Hindenburgdamm is named after diamond stone.

Prices and memberships

• Member of the Royal Society of Medicine
• New York Academy of Sciences
• Robert Koch Chair at the Humboldt University in Berlin
• Dr. Friedrich Sasse Prize and Dr. Friedrich Sasse Medal in Gold (1990)

Web links

• Literature by and about Tibor Diamantstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Immunology - Prizes for Hungarian research couple (PDF; 370 kB). In: Berliner Ärzte, 12/2006, p. 10.
• Article about the symposium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eveline Blitstein-Willinger: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Tibor-Diamantstein-Gedenksymposium of the Berlin Medical Society on December 6, 2006 in the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus - Tibor Diamantstein, Leben und Werk ) at www.grosse-verlag .de
2. ↑ Universitätsmedizin Berlin: RCIS laboratories. (No longer available online.) In: charite.de. Archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; Retrieved May 19, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.