Arthur Schlossmann

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

[2] In 1897 at Dresden, he founded a private Säuglingsheim (home for babies), a hospital devoted entirely for in-patient treatment of sick infants.

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.

[2] In 1898, he received his habilitation at the Institut für Physiologische Chemie in the Technischen Hochschule at Dresden.

Beginning in 1906 he worked in Düsseldorf, initially as director of the children's ward at the municipal hospital.