Richard Schatzki

Richard Schatzki ( born February 22, 1902 in Klafeld near Siegen, † January 19, 1992 in Cambridge (Massachusetts ) ) was a German -American radiologist.

Life and work

Schatzki came from a Jewish family. He was one of five sons of the graduate engineer Ferdinand Schatzki (1857-1910), who worked as a senior engineer at the Siegen galvanizing AG in Klafeld - Geisweid, and his wife Beate born star of Schmallenberg .. His brothers were the textile manufacturer Herbert Schatzki, the aircraft designer Erich Schatzki, the book Händeler and antiquarian Walter Schatzki and the doctor Paul Schatzki. All the brothers survived the Holocaust by emigrating.

After attending grammar school in Siegen Schatzki studied medicine at the University of Berlin and was here in 1926 for Dr. med. doctorate. From 1926 to 1929 he received a radiological specialist training at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main at Hans Heinrich Berg. In 1929 he was an assistant at the Radiology at the University Hospital Leipzig. Here he published his first work on radiological Gastroenterology.

After successful completion of his habilitation, he was the venia legendi not granted in March 1933 for racial reasons. Schatzki left Germany and emigrated to the United States. He went first as an assistant doctor at the Boston General Hospital in Boston. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the U.S. Army, most recently as a lieutenant colonel. From 1946 he was head of the radiology department at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he developed over the years into a sought placement for graduates of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University. He taught at Harvard radiology as an Associate Clinical Professor.

Schatzki was president of the New England Roentgen Ray Society and vice president of the American Roentgen Ray Society. The Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists honored him in 1973 with its Walter B. Cannon Medal.

Schatzki Ring

Between 1953 and 1963, Schatzki publish a series of investigations into a ring in the esophagus, which was then named after him.

Works

• Contribution to the question of dermatomyositis ( polymyositis acuta). Frankfurt - Niederrad ( 1926), zugl. Berlin, Med Diss, 1926
• Relief studies on the normal and diseased esophagus. Stockholm [, Tryckerigatan 2]: Acta radiologica, 1933