Walter Kempner (medic, 1869)
Walter Kempner (born June 17, 1869 in Glogau , † February 29, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German physician (with the title of Sanitätsrat ) and also dealt scientifically with hygiene and microbiology .
Life
Kempner received his doctorate in 1894 from the Munich Medical Faculty with a contribution to the etiology of infant tuberculosis .
He married in 1898 in Madrid - at an international medical conference - Lydia Rabinovich-Kempner , who together with him in the Hygiene Institute of the Robert Koch worked. They were considered to be one of the great academic couples alongside Marie and Pierre Curie and Oskar and Cécile Vogt and together they published what was also received abroad. In 1897, Kempner developed an antiserum in Koch's laboratory, the first possible therapy against meat poisoning. In 1905 he was accepted into the Berlin Medical Society . Kempner died in 1920 of larynx tuberculosis .
The oldest of his three children was the lawyer Robert Kempner (1899-1993), who appeared as deputy chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials . It was followed by Nadeshda (Nadja) (1901-1932), who died before completing her philology degree, and Walter (1903-1997), who like his father became a doctor and developed a popular rice diet at Duke University in the 1930s .
Walter Kempner was buried in the Lichterfelde Park Cemetery in Berlin-Lichterfelde . In the family grave, the wife Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, the daughter Nadja Kempner and in 1993 the son Robert Kempner were buried, in whose honor the grave in Section 4a-1/2 is one of the graves of honor of the State of Berlin.
Fonts
- Another contribution to the doctrine of meat poisoning: the antitoxin of botulism . 1897.
- On the formation of hydrogen sulphide in cholera vibrio in hen's eggs. In: Archive for Hygiene , Volumes 21–22, 1894, p. 317.
- Contribution to the etiology of infant tuberculosis . 1894. In: Heinrich Helferich: Atlas and plan of the traumatic fractures and dislocations . JF Lehmann, 1895.
literature
- Harriet Pass Freidenreich: Female, Jewish, and Educated. The Lives of Central European University Women . Indiana University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-253-10927-2 , p. 125.
- Annette Vogt : The “milk scandal” made you famous. Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner - the first female professor in Berlin appointed by the Kaiser . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 1997, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 32-36 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal for Hygiene and Infection Diseases , Volumes 30 and 31. Verlag Von Veit & Comp., 1899.
- ↑ Milk and its significance for the economy and public health. In: Schmidt's yearbooks of domestic and foreign entire medicine , volumes 263–264. S. Hirzel, 1899.
- ↑ Central sheet for bacteriology, parasite science and infectious diseases: General, agricultural, technical food bacteriology and mycology, protozoology, plant diseases and plant protection as well as animal diseases. Volume 26. G. Fischer, 1899.
- ↑ Acta Universitatis Lundensis: Lunds Universitets Arsskrift. Lunds universitet, 1906 and 1908, p. 4.
- ↑ Boris Sommer, Gerhard Sattler: Botulinum toxin in aesthetic medicine. 3. Edition. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-13-137673-2 , pp. 1–2.
- ↑ a b Reinhard Rürup, Michael Schüring: Fates and Careers: Commemorative book for the researchers expelled from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society by the National Socialists. Wallstein, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89244-797-9 , p. 242 f.
- ^ Berlin Medical Society: Negotiations. Volume 35, 1905.
- ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin. (PDF) Status: November 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kempner, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glogau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1920 |
| Place of death | Berlin |