Carl Edvard Marius Levy
Carl Edvard Marius Levy | |
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København (Copenhagen), Danmark | |
Nationality | Danish |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Obstetrics, Pediatrics |
Carl Edvard Marius Levy (10 September 1808 – 30 December 1865) was professor and head of the
Levy graduated 1831 from
He founded the monthly medical journal:
He was born Jewish[2] but converted to Christianity[3] in 1840-1841 in order to pursue an academic career.
According to his biography, rampant epidemics of
Professor Carl Braun in Vienna said about the Copenhagen hospital, that "because this is the most appropriate and noteworthy newly constructed maternity hospital, in which every step has been taken to halt puerperal fever epidemics, we allow ourselves to estimate that in this new building under Levy's direction no puerperal fever epidemics will occur."[5]
Professor Levy was an outspoken critic of
These are my impressions of Dr. Semmelweis's experiences; for these reasons I must judge provisionally that his opinions are not clear enough and his findings not exact enough to qualify as scientifically founded.[7]
The above translation is rather benign compared to the punch in the original Danish quote.
See also
- Two-page obituary published in Illustreret Tidende, Årgang 7, Nr. 328, 07/01-1866 from which the picture is sourced. "Professor Dr. med. Levy". Illustreret Tidende. 7 (328): 125–126. 7 January 1866.. Pdf versions of pages available here, and here
- Entry in the Danish biography (1887–1905) Dansk biografisk lexikon (in Danish). Available online. Levy's biography is in Volume X, page 255 and onwards, see hereand onwards.
References
- ^ Obituary p125
- ^ Biography p255. Translated from: "mosaiske Trosbekjendelse"
- ^ Biography p256
- ^ Translated from the biography p 257 (in Danish): "Barselfeberens fortsatte voldsomme Hærgen i Fødselsstiftelsen uafbrudt maatte holde ham i Aande og sætte hans Opfindsomhed og Handlekraft paa Prøve. Gjentagen Lukning af Fødselsstiftelsen og Oprettelsen af interimistiske Hjælpelokaler viste sig frugtesløse, og efter at han ved en Rejse til England og Irland i 1846 havde gjort sig bekjendt med de derværende vel ansete Fødselsstiftelsers Indretning, skred man da under hans Ledelse til en fuldstændig Ombygning og Reorganisation af vor Fødselsstiftelse, men ogsaa kun med utilfredsstillende Resultat. "
- ^ Semmelweis (1861):187
- ^ Levy, Karl Edouard Marius (1848). "De nyeste Forsög i Födselsstiftelsen i Wien til Oplysning om Barselfeberens Aetiologie". Hospitals-Meddelelser. 1: 199–211.. A translation was published in Germany by Gustav Adolf Michaelis in 1850, ( Levy (1850). "Gebärhäuser und der praktischen Unterricht in der Geburtshülfe". Neue Zeitschrift für Geburrskunde. 27: 392–449. Semmelweis (1861):137, translator Carter's footnote 18 p 137.
- ^ Semmelweis (1861):186 (translated by Carter, possibly from a German translation)
- ^ the original quote is (in Danish):".. at, så vidt de endnu foreligge, hans Anskuelser synes for uklare, hans Iagttagelser for flygtige, hans Erfaringer for usikre, til deraf at udlede videnskabelige Resultater.", which would translate into: ".. that insofar as they are laid out [*] his [Semmelweis'] views appears too unclear, his observations too volatile, his experiences too uncertain, to deduce scientific results therefrom." The sentence before *) could perhaps be translated to the meaning "I must judge provisionally (that) .." The original text is available (in Danish) as a scanned document as well as in plain text.
Semmelweis, Ignaz (1861). Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Translated by K. Codell Carter. University of Wisconsin Press, September 15, 1983.