Leopold Lichtwitz (9 December 1876 in Ohlau – 16 March 1943 in

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) was a

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internist. He studied medicine in several

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, receiving his doctorate in 1901 from the

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. In 1906/07 he studied chemistry at Leipzig,Biographie Leopold Lichtwitz
DGIM - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin and during the following year, obtained his

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for medicine at the

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. In 1910 he was named head of the medical polyclinic in Göttingen, where in 1913 he became an associate professor.Kraatz - Menges / edited by Rudolf Vierhaus
Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie In 1916 he was appointed director of the department of internal medicine at the municipal hospital in Altona. In 1931 he relocated to

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as director of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital. Because of his Jewish heritage, he was dismissed from his post at the hospital by the Nazi regime in 1933. He then emigrated to the United States, where he subsequently found employment as director of the department of internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital in

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. In New York, he was also a professor at

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. The "Leopold-Lichtwitz-Medaille" is an award offered by the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (DGIM) to those who distinguish themselves through their work and commitment in the interests of internal medicine.

Published works

* ''Über die Bildung der Harn-und Gallensteine'', 1914. * ''Klinische chemie'', 1918. * ''Die Praxis der Nierenkrankheiten'', 1921. * ''Medizinische Kolloidlehre: Physiologie, Pathologie und Therapie in kolloidchemischer Betrachtung'', (Part 1, with

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and

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), 1935. * ''Pathologie der funktionen und regulationen'', 1936. * "Functional pathology", 1941. * "Nephritis", 1942. * "Pathology and therapy of rheumatic fever", 1944.Most widely held works by Leopold Lichtwitz
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lichtwitz, Leopold 1876 births 1943 deaths People from Oława People from the Province of Silesia German internists American internists Academic staff of the University of Göttingen Columbia University faculty Leipzig University alumni Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States