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Theodor Brugsch

テオドール・ブルクシュ

Teodōru Burukushu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1878-10-11 (Graz)
Died
1963-07-11 (East Berlin) age 84
Nationality
German
Languages
German
Residence History
Graz → Berlin → Halle → East Berlin

Career

Occupations
internist, politician, university professor
Active Years
1910-1963
Affiliations
Charité, University of Halle
Memberships
Cultural Association of the GDR
Influenced By
Heinrich Karl Brugsch

Awards

Goethe Prize
1954
Organization: City of Frankfurt
Result: won
Honoured Doctor of the People
1949
Organization: East German government
Result: won
Hervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes
1953
Organization: East German government
Result: won
Patriotic Order of Merit (silver)
1954
Organization: East German government
Result: won
Patriotic Order of Merit (gold)
1958
Organization: East German government
Result: won
National Prize of East Germany
1956
Organization: East German government
Result: won

Awards & Nominations

Works

Bibliography

  • Lehrbuch klinischer Untersuchungsmethoden
  • Der Nukleinstoffwechsel und seine Störungen
  • Diätetik innerer Erkrankungen
  • Technik der speziellen klinischen Untersuchungsmethoden
  • Allgemeine Prognostik
  • Lehrbuch der Herz- und Gefässerkrankungen
  • Lehrbuch der inneren Medizin
  • Arzt seit fünf Jahrzehnten
  • Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie
  • Die Biologie der Person

Legacy

Prominent German internist and politician known for his medical textbooks and numerous honors in East Germany.

In Popular Culture

  • Depicted on a 25-pfennig postage stamp issued by East Germany in 1978.

Trivia

  • Son of the renowned Egyptologist Heinrich Karl Brugsch.
  • Member of the Nazi Party but cleared by denazification tribunal.
  • Eponym for Brugsch's syndrome.