Paul Rohmer

Paul Rohmer (Huttenheim, 1^er November 1876 - Strasbourg, March 2nd 1977) Alsatian Doctor regarded as one of the fathers of the Pediatry modern Frenchwoman.

Biography

Wire of Albert Rohmer (1846 - 1912) and of Marie-Elizabeth Metz (1850 - 1935) (farmers), Paul Rohmer was born in 1876 in a Prussian Alsace , it passed its thesis of medicine to Strasbourg in 1901 then exerted a few years in the towns of Marbourg and Cologne in Germany. It militated very early so that the Pédiatrie integrates at the same time progress of medicine and biology, and a practical and social education of the mothers.

Although mobilized between 1914 and 1918 on the German side where it was affected with the military Hôpital of Metz, its feelings pro-French made him refuse to sign the October 4th 1914 the Manifeste of the 93 whereas one had proposed to him. In 1918, following the allied victory, the Alsace became again French and Paul Rohmer was appointed one year later Full professor of the new flesh of Pédiatrie of the faculty of Médecine of Strasbourg.

Outstanding figure of the French Pediatry, it creates in 1920 the Alsatian and Lorraine Association of child welfare , the first of the kind in France. It trains nursery nurses who leave then to the meeting the families. The results of this policy are spectacular and the Alsatian model is at the origin of creation, in 1945, of the Maternal protection and infantile (SME) in all the France.

Professor of international repute, Paul Rohmer was also a pioneer in certain medical combat, in particular vis-a-vis the Poliomyélite, the Tuberculose, the Rachitisme, the Vitamine C and the prematurity. He directed the infantile private clinic of Strasbourg until his retirement, did one of most prestigious of Europe and published of it many works of which one celebrates manual pediatry " Treaty of Infantile" Pathology; in 1946 with Robert Debré (2500 pages, 2 volumes) which made authority for a whole generation of Pédiatre. Among his patients, one can find the children of the Count de Paris, of Pierre Pflimlin, King of the Belgians or those of Konrad Adenauer.

Its setting in retirement, in 1947 at 70 years, did not prevent it from continuing for 30 years more its research and its work in particular as regards teenager and child welfare.

One finds today a street of the name of " Pr. Paul Rohmer" with Strasbourg.

Paul Rohmer married in February 1904 with Marie Louise Kieffer (1880 - 1962) and had three children: Laurent in 1904, Anne-Marie in 1906 and Marie-Therese in 1908. The lived latter unfortunately only a few weeks and died of the continuations of an infection, which contributed thereafter to reinforce tenacity that Paul Rohmer had has to fight prematurity and perinatal mortality.

Principal decorations

Officer of the Legion of Honor
Commander of the national order of the Merit
Officer of the Academic Palms
Knight about Léopold (Belgium - civil version )
Commander about the Crown (Belgium)
Many other French and foreign distinctions

Anecdotes

Paul Rohmer was, with his birth on November 1st 1876, a premature child, it did not weigh that 1.500 grams
At the time of its centenary was held, the {{1st}} November 1976, in front of a full house and in her presence with the large auditorium of the medical college of Strasbourg a auquelle ceremony came from many European collaborators (of which Robert Debré, 94 years) and various personalities of the whole of the Rhenish basin and Yugoslavia to pay a collective and official homage to him.

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