The role of Jewish doctors in the development of German medicine is still to be told. It is a topic which got lost on the corridors of German hospitals. As a visitor of those institutions lately - not for research reasons, unfortunatelly, I am happy to spend my time googling about Jewish personalities that created the medical science that still makes history nowadays.
A relatively least mentioned but nevertheless relevant character of the medical history from the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th was Max Levy-Dorn. He was a pioneer in the field of the radiation science discovered by Röntgen, a passion that finally killed him as he contracted cancer after being exposed to the irradiation.
I couldn´t find too much information about his Jewish roots and family, and the medical information are sparse as well. He studied in Leipzig and become a surgeon, but at the end of the 19th century, he was owning his own medical practice and a Röntgen Lab, the first of this kind in Berlin. In 1906 he took over the Radiology Department at Virchow Clinic, where I´ve discovered the mention on the wall close to the main entrance.
Levy-Dorn authored over 200 academic publications dedicated to the then-new science of radiology and had noteworthy contribution to the development of the radiation techniques and clinical procedeeings, especially in diagnosis of thorax and stomach maladies.
He died of cancer at the age of 56, the result of high exposure to radiation.
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