Felix Lewandowsky

Felix Lewandowsky ( born October 1, 1879 in Hamburg, † October 31, 1921 in Basel ) was a German dermatologist.

Life

Lewandowsky was born in Hamburg, the son of a Jewish merchant. After graduating from high school in his hometown, he studied medicine in Berlin, Marburg and Strasbourg, where he in 1902 assistant at the Hygienic - bacteriological institute of the university. In the same year he received his doctorate there.

From 1903 to 1907 he worked at the Dermatology Clinic in Berne as Assistant to the dermatologist Josef Jadassohn. He then returned to Hamburg and worked at the St. Georg Hospital in the Department of Eduard Arning. In 1917 he was appointed despite the lack of postdoctoral associate professor of dermatology at the University of Basel and the director of the Dermatology Clinic at Civil Hospital Basel. His public inaugural lecture he gave at the University of Basel on March 1, 1918.

Lewandowsky specialized in tuberculosis and skin diseases of children. In 1916 he published in the Encyclopedia of clinical medicine as a specialty track No. 4 the work of Tuberculosis, which was released in 1931 again revised.

Lewandowsky's name is still listed in the names of two skin diseases. This is even the Jadassohn - Lewandowsky syndrome, ectodermal dysplasia, and secondly a verruciformis the Epidermodysplasia, the rarely occurring Lewandowsky -Lutz dysplasia Lewandowsky described which together with the dermatologist Wilhelm Lutz ( 1888-1958 ).

Works

• Tuberculosis of the skin, in Encyclopedia of clinical medicine, specialty Title 4 Tuberculosis, Springer, Berlin 1916
• The progress of syphilidology, Inaugural Lecture at the University of Basel from March 1, 1918 Publisher Schwabe, Basel 1918
• Manual of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Volume 10.1, tuberculosis of the skin and venereal diseases; edited by Richard Folk, subtitle: Completely reworked on the basis of the eponymous work by F. Lewandowsky, Springer, Berlin 1931