Adolf Gottstein

Adolf Gottstein ( born November 2, 1857 in Breslau, † March 3, 1941 in Berlin) was a German social hygiene.

Life

After visiting the humanistic Gymnasium in Breslau, he studied in Breslau, Strasbourg and Leipzig medicine. There he also gained his doctorate in 1881 with a dissertation about marasmic thrombosis. This is followed by a one-year military service followed. In 1875 he became a member of the Old Breslauer fraternity of Raczeks. From 1882 he worked as an assistant doctor at the municipal Wenzel- Hancke hospital in Breslau. With the move to Berlin he kept from 1884 to 1911, a private medical practice. In his spare time he devoted himself to the study of bacteriological problems and worked to in the laboratories of the pathologist Carl Friedlander, the pharmacologists Oscar Liebreich and bacteriologist Robert Koch. Later he turned to epidemiological and statistical studies and medical social hygiene issues. His scientific results were reflected in numerous publications, anthologies and magazine articles.

In 1906 he was appointed unpaid City Council, 1911 for salaried Stadtmedizinalrat of Charlottenburg. 1905 he was appointed medical officer, appointed in 1914 to the Privy Medical Councillor. 1919 ( until 1924 ) he became a Ministerial in the Prussian Ministry for People's Welfare at the head of the Prussian Medizinalverwaltung ( as successor to Martin Kirchner ). In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Here he developed in all areas of health policy advanced activities. His initiative are the midwives, tuberculosis and cripple Welfare Act, the foundation of the Prussian State Health Council and the creation of the Academies of Social Hygiene in Wroclaw, Charlottenburg and Dusseldorf to thank you for the training of doctors of public health.

In addition, he was co-founder in 1905 of the Society for Social Medicine, Hygiene and medical statistics and in 1926 the magazine for the entire hospital system. With Alfred Grotjahn, Arthur Castle man and Ludwig Teleky he is considered the founder of the social hygiene. For his services he was honored in 1918 as titular professor, and in 1924 with the title of city elder of Berlin.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he had to resign for racial reasons all offices.

His final resting place is an honorary grave in the West Stahnsdorf.

Works

  • The Verwerthung of bacteriology in clinical diagnostics, Berlin, 1887.
  • Immunity, infection theory and diphtheria serum. Three critical essays, Berlin 1894. ( With CL Schleich )
  • Epidemiological studies of diphtheria and scarlet fever, Berlin 1895.
  • General Epidemiology, Leipzig 1897.
  • Acquired immunity in infectious diseases of humans, Berlin 1897.
  • History of hygiene in the 19th century. , Berlin 1901.
  • The periodicity of diphtheria and its causes; Berlin 1903.
  • The social hygiene, their methods, tasks and goals, Leipzig, 1907.
  • Introduction to the study of social medicine, in: German clinic at the entrance of the 20th century Progress of the German Hospital 3 (1913 ), pp. 415-592.
  • The health infant care and the war, Leipzig / Berlin, 1917.
  • Social Medical internship; a guide to managing physicians, district local doctors, school doctors, baby doctors, poor and panel doctors. Berlin 1918. ( With Gustav Tugendreich, A.Gastpar etc.)
  • People's meals, school children feeding, emergency power supply, POS power, in: Weyl 's manual of hygiene. Erg.Bd. Social Hygiene, Abt.2, 2.A., Leipzig 1918.
  • The new Health Care, Leipzig 1920.
  • Disease and Public Welfare, Berlin 1920.
  • The medical system of the present. Health education and health policy, Berlin 1924.
  • Handbook of social hygiene and health care, 6Bde. , Berin 1925-1927. ( with A.Schlossmann and L. Teleky )
  • Adolf Gottstein [ Autobiography ], in: L.R. Grote (ed. ): The Medicine of the presence in self-presentations, Bd.IV, Leipzig 1925, p.53 - 91st
  • School Health Care, Leipzig 1926.
  • The medical statistics, in: Hand State Library of Medicine, Bd.14 and 15, Berlin 1928, pp. 206-271.
  • The theory of epidemics, Berlin 1929.
  • Hand library for the entire hospital system, 7 vols, Berlin, 1930. (Ed.)
  • General epidemiology of tuberculosis, Berlin, 1931.
  • Hospital operation 1926-1930, Berlin 1932. ( With Wilhelm Hoffmann)
  • Epidemiology - Basic concepts, results, Leipzig / Wien 1937.
  • Epidemiologia general de la tuberculosis, Madrid 1943.
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