title: [A German pioneer in Turkish dietetics: Elisabeth Wolff].
abstract: In Turkey, the foundation of modern dietetic started only in 1935 at the IInd Clinic for Internal Medicine at the Medicine Faculty of Istanbul University on behalf of the clinic's director Sen. Prof. Dr. Erich Frank, a well-known expert on diabetes, and his dietician Elisabeth Wolff, both having refuged from the 1933's Gemany. Wolff, one of the early leading and example representatives of the dietetic arising new in the world and Europa at that time, presented and taught the new treatment in Turkey where she worked for 32 years. Frank cooperated intensively with her to establish a modern diabetes treatment with uptodate methods in Turkey on the dietary treatment of internal diseases.
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University. Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Medical History and Medical Ethics, Horhor cad. 13, 34260 Fatih Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Arin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Namal
mesh_terms: D004046:Dietetics / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D014421:Turkey; D014930:Women / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Eine deutsche Vorreiterin in der türkischen diätetik: Diätschwester Elisabeth Wolff.