Kurt Huldschinsky

“Light instead of cod liver oil” Ultraviolet irradiation against rickets
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-95565-535-8
Verlag: Hentrich & Hentrich

Buch, Englisch, Band 282A, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 115 mm x 155 mm

Reihe: Jüdische Miniaturen

Kurt Huldschinsky was born on November 24, 1883, in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia. During his first years as a pediatrician, he worked among other things at the Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Haus in Berlin and at the University Children's Hospital in Vienna. After the First World War, he worked for Konrad Biesalski at the Oskar-Helene-Heim children’s hospital in Berlin.
Here he was the first to prove that irradiation with artificial UV light could cure the bone disease rickets in young children, which is usually caused by vitamin D deficiency.
For this groundbreaking discovery and his further research on the prevention and therapy of rickets, Huldschinsky was honored in 1926 with the Otto Heubner Prize of the German Society for Pediatrics. He was even nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine. As a Jew, he had to flee Germany from the National Socialists in 1933/34. Together with his wife and daughter, he emigrated to Egypt, where he died in Alexandria on October 31, 1940.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuntz, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien

Über Autor(innen)

Kuntz, Benjamin
Ph.D., Health scientist at the Robert Koch Institute and at the Charité in Berlin. Member of the Berlin Society for the History of Medicine. Has been working increasingly on medical history topics since 2018.