Linser karl

(¤ 1895, † 1976) Karl Friedrich Gottholf Linser was born on September 10, 1895 in Pforzheim as the son of a strict family of educators. From 1906 to 1914 he attended the humanistic Goethe Grammar School in Karlsruhe. In 1916 Karl Linser was a soldier on the western front before Verdun. After the end of the war he studied medicine in Freiburg, Würzburg and Heidelberg from 1919. Siegfried Bettmann was his first dermatological teacher. Doctorate in 1922. Dermatological training with Paul Linser in Tübingen. Within a year, under his namesake Paul Linser, he developed a non-toxic alternative to varicose veins sclerotherapy with Sublimat using high-percentage saline injections. From 1924 onwards, further dermatological training in Wroclaw, Vienna and Paris. From 1926 practice in Dresden. There he worked together with Eugen Galewsky. 1936 first report on the effectiveness of sulfonamides on gonorrhea. In 1946 he became chief physician at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Municipal Hospital. In Saxony, he was very successfully involved in the fight against venereal diseases and was appointed professor on the basis of these achievements. 1947 appointment to the dermatological chair at the Karl-Marx University of Leipzig. 1950 Call to the Humboldt University Berlin as successor to Heinrich Löhe. Scientific work on the subject of climatotherapy. Remarkable the execution of a "climate-therapeutic boat trip" to the Canary Islands with eczema and asthma patients in 1965.

1. Linser K (1924) For treatment of varicose veins with intravenous injections. Münch Med weekly 71: 515-518
2. Linser K (1925) The treatment of varicose veins with intravaricose saline injections. Dermatol Wschr 81: 1345-1351