Erich Urbach ( German: Erich Urbach ; July 29, 1893 , Prague , Austria-Hungary - December 17, 1946 , Philadelphia , PA , USA ) - Austrian and American dermatologist and allergist . Ph.D.
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography
Born in Prague in a Jewish family [2] . Before the start of World War II, he studied at the medical school of Vienna University for two years.
Member of World War I, with the rank of lieutenant of the Austrian army, was at the front. He was a member of a surgical team led by Professor Anton von Aiselsberg . He was awarded for courage.
In 1919 he received his doctorate at the University of Vienna . He worked in the departments of therapeutic medicine and dermatology of the Vienna hospital, as well as in the skin and dermatology clinic in Breslau , where he was an assistant to Joseph Jadasson , whom he considered his teacher.
In 1929 - Associate Professor at the University of Vienna . Subsequently, he was an assistant to the chief physician of the skin clinic Wilhelm Curl.
From 1936 to 1938 he was the chief doctor of the dermatology department at the Merchant's Hospital in Vienna. In 1924-1934 he lived in Vienna on Gonzagagasse 12, then in the Schottenring district.
After the Anschluss , in order to avoid the persecution of the Nazis, he emigrated to the United States in 1938.
In the United States, he worked at the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania . Since 1939, he headed the allergy department at the Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia.
Wife (since 1924) - Joseph Maria Vilgemina Kronshteyn (1895-1981).
Scientific activity
Investigated the role of allergies in the pathogenesis of skin diseases.
Together, Camillo Vite [3] [4] in 1929 described a rare recessive genetic disease , pathology of the skin and mucous membranes in violation of lipid and protein metabolism, called by their names Urbach-Vite disease .
His book Hautkrankheiten und Ernährung mit Berücksichtigung der Dermatosen des Kindesalters was translated into English and published in 1932 under the title Skin Diseases and Nutrition, including Dermatoses of Children. He published the popular book Allergy.
Associated with his name
- Oppenheim Disease - Urbach
- The Urbach-Königstein Method
- Urbach's Disease - Vite
Notes
- ↑ Who Named It?
- ↑ CLAIMS RESOLUTION TRIBUNAL
- ↑ synd / 924 on Who Named It?
- ↑ Urbach E, Wiethe C. 1929. Lipoidosis cutis et mucosae. Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 273: 285-319
Literature
- Biographical Dictionary. 1998.