Emeritus professor, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kocaeli, Izmit, Kocaeli, Turkey; Cytopathology/FNA Private Practice, Izmit, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Ann Diagn Pathol. 2022 Oct;60:152005. doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2022.152005. Epub 2022 Jul 8.
On March 21, 1933, the German National Socialist Party banned Jewish doctors from practicing medicine in Germany. Soon after, it was decided to boycott Jewish businessmen, Jewish products and Jewish lawyers and all Jews were banned from working as civil servants. Professor Siegfried Oberndorfer was forced to retire from his post at the Munich Schwabing Hospital's Pathological Institute where he served as the director for 21 years and had to emigrate to Turkey. Obendorfer is known for his description and introduction of the term "carcinoid tumor". A brilliant pathologist, physician, and investigator, he contributed extensively to the pathology literature in many other areas. In Turkey, which he considered as his second home, he was appointed as the director of the newly created Department of General and Experimental Pathology at Istanbul University. There he continued his research and trained countless pathologists, and in 1937 he was the force behind the creation of the first Institute of Cancer of Istanbul University. Obendorfer died in 1944 due to complications of a mediastinal tumor. His wife was allowed to emigrate to Medellin, Colombia, where her three children resided. In September 2007, Obendorfer's grandson, Walter L. Castrillon-Obendorfer, a doctor in Colombia, was invited together with the son and daughter of Phillip Schwartz, another German refugee who emigrated to Turkey during the Nazi period in Europe, and were awarded a plaque in honor of their namesakes at the European Congress of Pathology held in Istanbul. The legacy of Obendorfer, who was a "prophet" that was not recognized in his own land, continues to this day.
1933 年 3 月 21 日，德国国家社会主义党（纳粹党）禁止德国的犹太医生行医。此后不久，决定抵制犹太商人、犹太产品和犹太律师，所有犹太人都被禁止担任公务员。西格弗里德·奥本多弗教授被迫从他在慕尼黑施瓦宾医院病理研究所的职位上退休，他在那里担任主任 21 年，并被迫移民到土耳其。奥本多弗因描述和介绍“类癌肿瘤”一词而闻名。他是一位杰出的病理学家、医生和研究员，在许多其他领域为病理学文献做出了广泛贡献。在他视为第二故乡的土耳其，他被任命为伊斯坦布尔大学新成立的普通和实验病理学系主任。在那里，他继续从事研究并培训了无数的病理学家，并于 1937 年推动成立了伊斯坦布尔大学第一家癌症研究所。奥本多弗于 1944 年因纵隔肿瘤并发症去世。他的妻子获准移民到哥伦比亚的麦德林，她的三个孩子居住在那里。2007 年 9 月，奥本多弗的孙子、哥伦比亚医生沃尔特·L·卡斯特里隆-奥本多弗，与另一位在欧洲纳粹时期移民到土耳其的德国难民菲利普·施瓦茨的儿子和女儿一起应邀参加在伊斯坦布尔举行的欧洲病理学大会，并因他们的同名而获得了一块牌匾。这位在自己的祖国没有得到认可的“先知”的遗产一直延续到今天。
