Commemoration of the German Society of Gastroenterology
In memory of

Dr. med.
Adolf Edelmann
1885 - 1939

Dr. med. Adolf Edelmann, <br> image source Der Wiener Tag, no. 29, 27 July 1931, Austrian National Library – Image Archive
Dr. med. Adolf Edelmann,
image source Der Wiener Tag, no. 29, 27 July 1931, Austrian National Library – Image Archive

Member since 1925

Studies in Krakow and Vienna

Newspaper clipping on the discovery of a fourth blood element by Edelmann, Archive H Je
Newspaper clipping on the discovery of a fourth blood element by Edelmann, Archive H Je

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Publications

  1. Mit v Müller-Deham A.: Neue therapeutische Versuche bei allgemeinen und lokalen Infektionen. Dtsch med Wochenschr 1913; 39: 2292-2294 
  2. Über Anemia infectiosa chronica und ihre Ätiologie. Wien Klin Wochenschr 1925; 38: 268-269
  3. Ueber ein bisher unbekanntes Blutelement. Wien klin Wochenschr 1931; 44: 795-797
  4. Über ein bisher nicht beobachtetes pankreato-hepatisches Syndrom bedingt durch Übertritt von Pankreassaft in die Blutbahn. Wien Klin Wochenschr 1936; 49:1336-1339

Dr. med. Adolf Edelmann

  • Działoszyce, Poland, 1‌4‌.‌0‌2‌.‌1‌8‌8‌5‌
  • Warsaw, 1939
  • Member since 1925
  • Escaped to Poland in 1938
  • Vienna
  • Specialist in internal medicine and metabolism researcher

Education and Places of Work

Edelmann studied medicine in Kraków and Vienna. He received his doctorate in Krakow in 1911. He then worked as an intern at the I. Medical Clinic of the University of Vienna under Carl von Noorden and Karel Frederik Wenckebach. Meanwhile he had become the provisional head of the department of internal medicine at the Wilhelminen Hospital in Vienna.

He was appointed first medical director and primary physician at the S. Canning Childs Hospital and Research Institute in Vienna in 1929. This hospital had been founded by the Polish-born American patron S. C. Childs in 1929 and was the result of the takeover of the former private sanatorium Dr. Löw.

Edelmann’s work mainly focused on haematological clinical conditions. Edelmann described the so-called kinetocytes as a fourth blood element, in addition to gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases.

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 1931
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 1931

Furthermore, he also dealt with questions of balneology. He sometimes practised and examined patients in Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, and occasionally in the Galician spa town of Truskawiec/Truskawez, Ukraine, during the summer.

 

Escape to Poland in 1938

Adolf Edelmann fled from Vienna to Warsaw in November 1938. He died in Warsaw in August 1939 at the age of 54, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. It has not been possible to clarify the circumstances of his death.

Publications

  1. Mit v Müller-Deham A.: Neue therapeutische Versuche bei allgemeinen und lokalen Infektionen. Dtsch med Wochenschr 1913; 39: 2292-2294 
  2. Über Anemia infectiosa chronica und ihre Ätiologie. Wien Klin Wochenschr 1925; 38: 268-269
  3. Ueber ein bisher unbekanntes Blutelement. Wien klin Wochenschr 1931; 44: 795-797
  4. Über ein bisher nicht beobachtetes pankreato-hepatisches Syndrom bedingt durch Übertritt von Pankreassaft in die Blutbahn. Wien Klin Wochenschr 1936; 49:1336-1339
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Biographie of Dr. med. Adolf Edelmann

Literature

  • Fischer I. Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre. Band I. Berlin, Wien: Urban & Schwarzenberg; 1932: 348
  • Fischer I. In: Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre. Bände III-IV: Nachträge und Ergänzungen. 3. Band Aba-Kom. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Geord Olms Verlag; 2002: 354
  • Forsbach R, Hofer H-G. Internisten in Diktatur und junger Demokratie. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 1933-1970. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 2018: 419
  • Spielvogel I, Spalek K, Prockow J. The Jewish doctors involved in the development of health resorts in eastern Galicia at the late 19th and early 20th century (Central and Eastern Europe). Wien Klin Wochenschr 2018; 130 (21-22): 683
  • Voswinckel P. Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre. Berlin 1932-1933. Band III. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Geord Olms Verlag; 2002:

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