Johann Veit
Johann Friedrich Otto Siegfried Veit, called Johann Johannes ( born June 17, 1852 in Berlin, † June 2, 1917 at Schierke ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician. He has held professorships at the universities of Berlin, Leiden, Erlangen and Halle.
Life
Vitus father was a native of a German - Jewish banking family go. Sanitätsrat Otto Siegfried Veit (1822-1883), a Berlin- respected surgeon and obstetrician. The mother Marie Friederike Pauline Malotki of Trzbiatowski came from a military family Pomeranian.
Veit studied medicine at the University of Leipzig. During his studies he participated as a member of the Medical Services 1870/71 part of the Franco-German War. In 1874 he received his doctorate at the Berlin Friedrich- Wilhelms- University Dr. med. Afterwards it was until 1879, assistant physician at the Royal Women's Hospital in Berlin and became a professor in obstetrics and gynecology. At the same time he led from 1882 to 1896, a gynecological private clinic, which changed its location in Berlin several times. Up to 300 women per year were hospitalized in it. 1893 Veit was appointed a full professor. In 1896 he was appointed the University of Leiden. From there he went on study trips, including to Frankfurt am Main to Paul Ehrlich to learn serological and biological methods of work with him. In 1902 he was invited to teach at the University of Erlangen and two years later in 1904 at the University of Halle to where he was Dean of the Medical Faculty and in 1911/12 also served as rector.
Despite a heart attack in 1912, the dismissed long ago from the Landwehr physicians took over again in 1914 military duties at the hospital Commission in Halle. On a hike to the Brocken he died of a recent heart attack.
Children
Johann Veit 1882 born in Hall daughter Charlotte Emilie Anna Veit was a student of Henry van de Velde at the art school in Weimar. She married in 1922 in Halle ( Saale), the German - Baltic agronomists Harald Woldemar Carlos Rathlef, who was married in first marriage to the sculptor Harriet Ellen Siderovna of Rathlef - man wedge.
Vitus 1884 in Berlin -born son was the anatomist Otto Veit, who built the Anatomical Institute of the University of Cologne and directed until his retirement in 1957. Since he was under the Nuremberg race laws "quarter Jew ", he was released on 27 September 1937 by the Nazis as a university teacher. After 1945 he was able to devote the Next and reconstruction of his institute again.
Work
Vitus particular merit was the connection with the immunology of gynecological practice and the treatment of cancer with radium. He also trained nurses and midwives for use in the Near East.
Veit published mainly on the subjects of anatomy of the vagina and the female pelvis, as well as uterine cancer and ectopic pregnancy. In addition to his Contribute to the manual of gynecology from 1896 to 1899, he published jointly with Robert Olshausen a textbook of obstetrics. Together with the German pathologist Carl Ruge he is regarded as describer of cervical cancer.
Awards
- Member of the Leopoldina (1907 )
- Iron Cross 2nd class with black and white ribbon (1916 )
- Red Eagle Order 4th class
- Prussian Crown, 3rd Class
- Knight's Cross, First Class of the House Order of Albert the Bear
Writings (selection )
- Karl Schroeder: Textbook of obstetrics with the inclusion of pathology in pregnancy and the puerperium. Newly edited by R. Olshausen and J. Veit, Cohen, Bonn 1891.
- Johann Veit (eds. ): Handbook of gynecology. Edited by Ernst Bumm and Georg Winter. Wiesbaden 1897.
- Johann Veit: The importance of physical and mental health for the marriage and offspring. Pamphlets of the federal government to preserve and magnify the German national strength. Knapp, Halle 1916.