Ulrich Friedemann
Helmuth Ulrich Adolf Friedemann (born May 7, 1877 in Berlin ; † November 16, 1949 in Great Neck , Long Island , NY ) was a German doctor and scientist in the field of infectiology .
Life
Friedemann came from a Jewish family. His parents were the court assessor Edmund Friedemann and his wife Auguste, b. Szkolny. His sister was the literary scholar Käte Friedemann .
Ulrich Friedemann studied human medicine in Heidelberg and obtained his doctorate in 1900 on "Changes in the small arteries in kidney diseases" with Carl Benda .
From 1910 to 1933 he was a professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Berlin and from 1911 to 1914 he headed the bacteriological department of the Moabit municipal hospital . In 1915 he succeeded Robert Koch and Georg Jochmann as head of the clinical department of the Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital . In 1933 he emigrated to London because of the National Socialist terror and continued his research there at the Farm Laboratories, Mill Hill , as a guest of the Medical Research Council . In 1934/35 he was Dunham Lecturer at Harvard University , Boston , and from 1936 headed the bacteriological department of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn in New York City , NY.
Friedemann had been married to Gertrud Bejach (1884–1966), the widow of the doctor Julius Morgenroth (1871–1924), who brought two children into the marriage since 1927 .
research
Ulrich Friedemann published over 200 articles on bacteriological, immunological and infectiological topics, including a. in the German Medical Weekly , the Lancet and the Journal of Immunology . His work focused on the blood-brain barrier , the effect of bacterial toxins on the endothelial barrier function and diphtheria .
literature
- Solomon Kagan: American Jewish Physicians of Note (1952), 63
- Manfred Stürzbecher: Friedemann, Ulrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 446 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Robert Koch Institute, Berlin
- Interfaith Medical Center New York, former Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn
Individual evidence
- ^ Birth register StA Berlin III, No. 634/1877
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedemann, Ulrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedemann, Helmuth Ulrich Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1949 |
| Place of death | Great Neck , Long Island , New York |