Karl Herxheimer ( German: Karl Herxheimer ) ( June 26, 1861 , Wiesbaden , Germany - December 6, 1942 , Theresienstadt , Czechoslovakia ) is a German dermatologist and venereologist who described a reaction called the Jarisch-Herksheimer reaction .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 Family
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Biography
Born June 26, 1861 in Wiesbaden in a Jewish family, parents Herman and Jeanette Herksheimer (née Libman) [3] . He studied at Freiburg , Breslav , Strasbourg , Wurzburg universities .
In 1885 he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in Würzburg. Subsequently, he was an assistant at the Pathological Institute in Frankfurt, and in Breslau, he studied with Albert Neisser , the discoverer of gonococcus . In 1885 he became a specialist in dermatology in Frankfurt.
In 1894 - Director of the Dermatological Clinic Frankfurt am Main. Together with Paul Erlich participated in the creation of a university in Frankfurt (founded in 1912 ). Since 1914, he was an ordinary professor at the Department of Skin and Sexually Transmitted Diseases of the Medical Faculty of Frankfurt University .
After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, persecution of Jews began. Relatives tried to convince the retired Professor Gerksheimer to leave Germany, but he remained.
On August 28, 1942 Herksheimer was arrested by the Gestapo [4] , despite great scientific merits. A few days later he was taken to the concentration camp Terezienstadt in the Czech Republic, where he died of hunger and dysentery on December 6, 1942 [3] .
Scientific activity
- He described a sharp deterioration in the state of health in the treatment of a patient with syphilis, later called the Yarish-Herxheimer reaction .
- He described chronic atrophic acrodermatitis (Herxheimer-Hartmann atrophic acrodermatitis), described earlier in 1895 by the Czech dermatologist F. J. Peak (1834-1910) under the name "Peak erythromelia."
Family
Karl's father Hermann Herksheimer was an entrepreneur. He provided his 11 children from two marriages with the opportunity to learn and achieve a high position in society [5] . Carl's elder brother Solomon was also a well-known dermatologist and worked in Frankfurt. He was born in 1841 and died 1899 [6] . On October 14, 1890, Karl married Olga Göpner, who was 7 years younger than him. She died in 1928 [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 127526005 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Who Named It?
- ↑ 1 2 3 Frankfurt am Main: Herxheimer, Karl (German) . frankfurt.de. Date of treatment January 10, 2016.
- ↑ Albrecht Scholz. DÄ Print: Medizin in der NS-Zeit: “Ich bin allein auf weiter Flur” (German) . mobile.aerzteblatt.de. Date of treatment January 10, 2016.
- ↑ Karl Herxheimer - Geheimrat mit dem gelben Stern (German) . derma.de. Date of treatment January 10, 2016.
- ↑ Salomon und Karl Herxheimer (1841 - 1899 and 1861 - 1942) (German) . ihre-gesundheit.tv. Date of treatment January 10, 2016.
Literature
- Udo Benzenhöfer. Die Universitätsmedizin in Frankfurt am Main von 1914 bis 2014. Kontur, Münster 2014, S. 54 f.
- Ralf Bröer. Herxheimer, Karl, in: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärzte-Lexikon. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 2., vollständig überarbeitete Auflage. Springer, Berlin ua 2001, S. 158.
- Renate Heuer, Siegbert Wolf. Die Juden der Frankfurter Universität. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1997, S. 167-170.
- Bettina Notter. Leben und Werk der Dermatologen Karl Herxheimer (1861-1942) und Salomon Herxheimer (1841-1899). 1994 (Dissertation, Universität Frankfurt am Main, 1994).
Links
- Karl Herxheimer (English) . Date of treatment March 16, 2012. Archived May 26, 2012.
- Karl Herxheimer - Geheimrat mit dem gelben Stern (German) . derma.de. Date of treatment January 10, 2016.