Kapronczay Károly szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 182-185. (Budapest, 2003)
KÖZLEMÉNYEK - COMMUNICATIONS - NAMAL, Arin - HONTI József: Efforts in 1947 to make Prof. Dr. Ernestus de Balogh (1890-1964) work for the University of Istanbul. (Erőfeszítések annak érdekében, hogy Balogh Ernő professzor (1890-1964) az Isztambuli Egyetemen dolgozhassék.)
EFFORTS IN 1947 TO MAKE PROF. DR. ERNESTUS de BALOGH (1890-1964) WORK FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ISTANBUL JÓZSEF HONTI - ARIN NAMAL Turkish University Reform coincidentally happened in the same year when Hitler came to power. This caused many scientists, who were voted out from their positions in Germany, to come to the Istanbul University, which indeed was the only university in Turkey at that time. Most of them left Turkey before the beginning of Second World War. Some of them left after the end of the war. Some stayed in Turkey, and even died here 1 . One of those scientist who run away from Hitlers persecution, who worked for the University of Istanbul and died in Turkey, was Professor Siegfried Oberndorfer, born in Munich in 1876. Oberndorfer had worked as the Director of Pathology Institute at Schwabingen Hospital in Munich for 22 years. Being forced to leave his position, he started to work for the General and Experimental Pathology Institute within Faculty of Medicine at Istanbul University on 13 December 1934. When he came to Turkey, Oberndorfer had brought 75 valuable publications with him, including the books and articles he had written since the year 1900". When the Cancer Institute was founded within Istanbul University in 1937, Oberndorfer became the director of this Institute. He spent vigorous efforts to strengthen the scientific studies conducted in this Institute. He had been praised and respected a lot amongst his colleagues and in the University. He died at Istanbul in 1944 because of cancer, on which he was an expert, and was buried in the same city 3 . Dr. Peter Ladewig, born in Berlin on 2 October 1909, and being a Jewish, had to leave Germany in 1935, was working for the same Institute too, as the head of laboratory. Being a valuable pathologist graduated from Berlin Faculty of Medicine, Ladewig 4 left Turkey in 1946 by accepting the invitation for "resident-pathologist" that he took from Laird Memorial Hospital in Montgomery-West Virginia-U.S.A. The seek for a precious replacement in foreign specialist cadre which emptied by the loss of Oberndorfer in the Cancer Institute of Istanbul University, accelerated especially after the leave of Ladewig. 1 Terzioglu,Arslan:Atatürk's University reform and medical relations between Turkey and Europe. In: Terzioglu A, Outschar U (ed.): Abhandlungen des Symposiums über die Universitätsreform Atatürks und die medizinischen Beziehungen zwischen Europa und der Türkei.{-Acta Turcica Históriáé Medicináé VIII), Istanbul, 2001, 19-27. 2 See the Istanbul University Rectorate, Archives of Personnel Department, File No. 4109/143. 3 Maskar, Üveis: Siegfried Oberndorfer (1876-1944). In: Terzioglu, Arslan (ed.): 2nd Turkish-German Medical Relations Symposium (20-25 September 1981, Istanbul). Istanbul 1981, 235-249. 4 See the Istanbul University Rectorate, Archives of Personnel Department, File No.4 109/130.
