Arthur Schlossmann

Arthur Schlossmann (16 December 1867 – 5 June 1932, in Düsseldorf) was a German pediatrician and social public health specialist.

Life and career Born in Breslau, Schlossmann attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden from 1874 to 1886. He obtained his doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1891 after completing his medical studies at several German universities. As a young man he worked as an assistant at Adolf Aron Baginsky's Kaiser-und-Kaiserin-Kinderkrankenhaus in Berlin.

In 1897 in Dresden, he founded a private Säuglingsheim (home for babies), a hospital devoted entirely for in-patient treatment of sick infants. This institution was considered to be the first of its kind anywhere. Here, Schlossmann worked at improving care for infants, that included an environment adhering to strict asepsis, systematic training of pediatric nurses and testing that involved his personal ideas on natural diet.

Selected writings Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde (five volumes, 1906) with Meinhard von Pfaundler (1872-1947), this work was later translated into English as "The Diseases of children; a work for the practising physician". Handbuch der sozialen Hygiene und Gesundheitsfürsorge (six volumes, 1925–27) with Adolf Gottstein (1857–1941) and Ludwig Teleky (1872–1957).