Carl von Noorden (pathologist)
Carl Harko Johannes Hermann von Noorden (* September 13, 1858 in Bonn, † 26 October 1944 ) was a German internist and diabetologist.
Life
Carl was the son of the historian Carl von Noorden and his wife Elizabeth born in England Fanny Lavino. Great-grandfathers were the physicians Johannes von Noorden, he worked in Rotterdam, as well as Christian Friedrich Nasse, the director of the medical clinic at the newly founded University of Bonn. Education in Bonn, Greifswald, Marburg and Tübingen. In 1876 he passed the Abitur examination. Harko Carl von Noorden et al studied in Leipzig, Tübingen and Freiburg. Initially his focus was in the field of rights, philosophy and mathematics. Then he was enthusiastic about chemistry and medicine, particularly the metabolic disorders. During his studies in Tübingen, he belonged to the circle of friends, a year later the Academic connection hedgehog Tübingen founded. 1881 laid von Noorden in Leipzig the state exam and received his doctorate in December of the same year with the theme "On the determination of hemoglobin in the blood using quantitative spectral analysis."
As a licensed physician, he went as an assistant first to Kiel at the Physiological Institute, then he volunteered for four months for Werner Hagedorn in Magdeburg in the field of surgery. As of December 1883 in Giessen, was Carl von Noorden clinical assistant professor at the Medical Clinic [note 1] by Franz Riegel ( 1843-1904 ). Here he took up the issue of gastrointestinal diseases on again. After two years in Giessen, he habilitated on September 30, 1885 the Internal Medicine with the theme " About albuminuria in healthy people " and was a lecturer. In the same year he married Agnes Binz (1863-1917), the daughter of the famous pharmacologist and medical historian Carl Binz. The marriage produced four children: Elizabeth (1886-1960), Karl ( Carl ) ( 1888-1975 ), Hans ( 1892-1972 ) and Roda ( 1894-1986 ). In 1921 he married again: Hedwig Herta an der Heiden, head nurse at the cottage sanatorium for nervous and metabolic ill in Vienna; this marriage remained childless.
In 1889 he accepted the invitation of Carl Gerhardt ( 1833-1902 ) to the second Medical Clinic of the Charité first as first assistant physician to Berlin and stayed there until 1894. Appointed Professor middle of the year 1893, he pursued university teaching. From the autumn of 1893 the Colleg him on special pathology and therapy of August Hirsch was transferred provisionally. The foundations of his later career as a doctor and scientist especially with regard to metabolic disorders were placed in Berlin. Here he published his famous "Manual of Pathology of metabolism " in 1893 in the first edition. In addition to other treatises on the subject of metabolic diseases he was asked shortly before his move to Frankfurt by the editor of the American "20th Century Practice in Medicine", to write a post about diabetes, who introduced him not only in the United States. The article, written in 1895, was the inspiration for his later very own specialty. For this article on diabetes mellitus was in the same year by Noorden's major work " The sugar disease and its treatment," produced and Noordensche era founded in the treatment of diabetes. This work was over 30 years an undisputed textbook.
1895, Carl von Noorden, together with the Frankfurt physician Eduard Lampé ( 1857-1924 ) the " private clinic for diabetics and dietary cures" in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt, later as Carl von Noorden clinic known and today the " Sachsenhausen Hospital ". In the private clinic for diabetics and dietary treatments were believed to the first specialist clinic for diabetes in Europe. At the age of 36 years was von Noorden 1894 employment chief residency in internal medicine at the Municipal Hospital in Frankfurt, which he held until 1906. In the same year he received a professorship at the University of Vienna to to succeed Hermann Nothnagel as professor of internal medicine and director of the First Medical Clinic. On October 17, 1906 Noorden gave his inaugural lecture, which he supplemented with a tribute to his predecessor. In Vienna, he also built a center for diabetics.
To want to leave despite the most energetic reply to 1912 occurred rumors, Vienna favor of a Frankfurt-based private clinic, Noorden 1913 did in fact leave his teaching post down, returned to Frankfurt and served again as chief physician at the private clinic in Sachsenhausen. Perhaps this change came about through the Frankfurt Lord Mayor Franz Adickes. In the pre -insulin era developed by Carl von Noorden early appropriate treatment options, particularly in the field of dietetics. Leading the way were his oat - days and the introduction of Kohlehydratäquivalents WBE ( white bread unit ), which made it easier to control the energy supply for diabetics better. He campaigned for the training of doctors and dieticians, founded one of the first diet schools Sachsenhausen Hospital. After the discovery of insulin in 1921 by Banting and Best, he was one of the first physicians who used insulin in Germany as a successful treatment for the control of diabetes.
In 1930 moved from Noorden back to the Vienna City Hospital ( Hospital Lainz ), where he worked until his death and taught.
His brother, Werner von Noorden became a doctor. But on the level of awareness of him he was not enough zoom. The level of awareness and the aftermath of Carl von Noorden Harko as physicians are significantly larger than that of his father as a historian.
Noorden scientific fields of activity were mainly in the research and treatment of metabolic diseases. He became famous by developing a diet Haferkur already in 1902, which lowers blood sugar levels. This is also used today to treat this disease.
He treated many years, who suffers from diabetes youngest sister of the Empress Auguste Victoria, Feodora of Schleswig -Holstein.
Writings
- Textbook of pathology of metabolism for physicians and study Rende. Hirschwald, Berlin 1893.
- The diabetes and its treatment. Second, increased and revised edition. Hirschwald, Berlin 1898.
- The obesity. Hölder, Vienna 1900. -. Second, completely revised edition. Vienna 1910.
Honors, Awards, Prizes
- Appointment as Privy Councillor and Privy Council
- Honorary citizen of the City of Vienna (February 19, 1932)
- Honorary Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main
- Designation of the traffic area Carl-von- Noorden -Platz in Frankfurt- Sachsenhausen.