Rahel Hirsch
Rachel Hirsch ( born September 15, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main, † October 6, 1953 in London) was a German doctor. It was 1913, the first woman to be appointed in the Kingdom of Prussia as Professor of Medicine. The discovered their permeability of the mucosa of the small intestine for großkorpuskuläre particles in the glomeruli and subsequent excretion in the urine was named after her stag effect.
Career
Hirsch has been named one of eleven children of Mendel Hirsch (1833-1900), director of the higher girls' school of the Jewish religious community in Frankfurt am Main, was born. After graduation in 1885 she started a course of education in Wiesbaden, which she completed in 1889. Subsequently, she worked until 1898 as a teacher. To escape the unsatisfactory for them teaching profession, she enrolled because of a woman in Germany has not been possible in Zurich to study medicine. Shortly thereafter, she moved to Strasbourg, where she completed her state exam in July 1903.
After receiving her doctorate, she was an assistant of Friedrich Kraus at the Berlin Charité. She was so Helenefriederike Stelzner after the second doctor ever in the history of the clinic. Hirsch devoted exclusively to research. She was interested in the intestinal mucosa and observed by it in experiments effect of the transition of starch granules from the intestinal tract into the urinary tract. With their findings, she was invited in November 1907 as the first woman to present them to the Conference of the Society of the chief physicians of the Charité. However, their colleagues demonstrated the procedure described by her and later occupied back as unfounded. However, her reputation remained undiminished medical. Under the care of Kraus took over in 1908 the management of the clinic of the Second Medical Clinic of the Charité and got 1913 as the first physician in Prussia awarded the title of professor. A lectureship or chair you remained failed. This treatment through the clinic - in financial terms, because you paid her a salary - was the reason in 1919 to leave the Charité and to fully concentrate on their practice on Kurfürstendamm.
The seizure of power by the National Socialists had for the Jew Hirsch meant that she was deprived of his insurance license and she was not allowed to treat non-Jews. In October 1938, she gave up her practice and emigrated to London, where one of her sisters lived. Because their approval was not recognized by the British authorities, she worked as a laboratory assistant and later as a translator.
His final years were spent - plagued by depression, delusions and persecution fears - in a mental hospital on the outskirts of London, where she died on October 6, 1953 at the age of 83 years.
Posthumous honor
Four years after her death grip Gerhard Volkheimer, Assistant Hirsch's former colleagues at the Charité Theodor Brugsch, in his habilitation thesis the results of Hirsch on the permeability of the kidney wall again and confirmed it. In memory of the discoverer he named the proven process Hirsch effect. The State of Israel honored deer with the inclusion in the gallery of famous Jewish scholars in Jerusalem. The Charité remembered very late of the work of their medical pioneer. 1995, designed by Susanne Wehland bronze sculpture was erected in front of the old lecture hall internal medicine clinic.
Since 2006, a street is named after her at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof.
2013 published the German post a commemorative stamp on the occasion "100 Years of the title of professor Rachel Hirsch " worth 145 cents.
2013, the college Health / Medicine in Berlin- Heller village was named after her.
Publications
- Rachel Hirsch: On the occurrence of starch granules in the blood and urine. In: Journal of Experimental Pathology and Therapy, Vol 3 (1906 ), pp. 390 ff
- Rachel Hirsch: About the ascendancy Go corpusculärer elements in the urine. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift. 45 Jg (1908 ), p 331
- Rachel Hirsch: Sports of the woman. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna 1913.
- Rachel Hirsch, Friedrich Kraus: Accident and internal medicine. Springer 1914.