Ferdinand Zinsser

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Ferdinand Zinsser (born February 10, 1865 in New York City , † January 3, 1952 in Tübingen ) was a German dermatologist , professor and rector of the University of Cologne . His daughter Auguste married the Lord Mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer in 1919 .

Life

Ferdinand Zinsser was born as the son of German emigrants , the physician Friedrich Zinsser and his wife Auguste, b. Balser born in New York. After the family returned to Germany, Ferdinand Zinsser started school in Wiesbaden in 1877 . After completing his school education, he began studying medicine in Bonn , which he continued in Munich and Heidelberg . In 1890 he received his license to practice medicine in Heidelberg . the following year Ferdinand Zinsser did his doctorate on a corneal disease . He then took a position at the University of Leipzig inHeinrich Curschmann . With Edmund Lesser in Leipzig, Zinsser specialized in dermatology and also accompanied him in 1889 after his appointment as associate professor and director of the dermatological clinic in Bern .

In 1894 Ferdinand Zinsser came to Cologne and in 1902 took over the newly established department for skin diseases of the city clinic in the Lindenburg hospitals in the Cologne district of Lindenthal . In 1904 he began his work as a lecturer at the Academy for Practical Medicine in Cologne, for which he received an extraordinary professorship in 1908. The focus of his work was on the therapy of lupus and the research and therapy of sexually transmitted diseases. In 1912 his main work Syphilis and Syphilis-Like Diseases of the Mouth appeared, which appeared in several editions and in numerous translations over the next few decades. Zinsser called for public welfare , the provision of decent housing, the establishment of "urban prostitutes' quarters" and voluntary police health checks to curb the spread of gonorrhea and syphilis .

After the founding of the University of Cologne in May 1919 Zinsser was a professor called dermatology and appointed full professor. The Cologne Dermatological Society was founded in 1921, and Ferdinand Zinsser was elected as its first chairman. From 1923 to 1924 Zinsser held the post of Dean of the Medical Faculty . From 1928 to 1929 Zinsser was the rector of Cologne University.

Until his retirement in 1931, Ferdinand Zinsser was director of the dermatology clinic in the Lindenburg hospitals and held the chair of dermatology in teaching. After his retirement, Zinsser donated a large part of his dermatological and venereological literature to the Cologne University Library.

Ferdinand Zinsser was married to Wilhelmine Tourelle since 1895. The eldest daughter Auguste married the Mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer in 1919. His son Ernst Zinsser later worked as an architect and university lecturer at the Technical University of Hanover.

The Zinsser-Engman-Cole syndrome ( dyskeratosis congenita ), a rare hereditary disease , was named after Ferdinand Zinsser .

Publications (selection)

  • About Keratoconus (PhD, 1891)
  • The prostitution situation in the city of Cologne (1906/07)
  • The current status of light therapy for skin diseases (1907)
  • On X-ray therapy of skin diseases (1908)
  • The dangers of X-ray therapy of skin diseases (1911)
  • About tooth changes in congenital syphilis (1912)
  • Syphilis and syphilis-like diseases of the mouth (1912)
  • Syphilitic leg ulcer and syphilitic diseases of the lower leg bones (1915)
  • Profession and training of the doctor (1928)
  • involved in:
  • Josef Jadassohn (Ed.): Handbook of skin and venereal diseases (1927)

literature

  • Walther Krantz: Ferdinand Zinsser. Obituary. Dermatologist 3, 1952, pp. 190-191

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Zinsser  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b G.K. Steigleder: On the history of the Cologne University Dermatology Clinic . In: GK Steigleder, H. Aulepp (Ed.): The dermatologist - negotiations of the German Dermatological Society . Supplementum II. Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-540-08518-1 , pp. XV-XVI .
  2. ↑ University Hospital Cologne (ed.): 100 years of the clinic "on the Lindenburg" - commemorative publication of the University Hospital Cologne . JP Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2240-7 , p. 44-46 .
  3. ↑ Monika Frank: "Plack an der Schnüss" - The department for skin and sexually transmitted diseases . In: Monika Frank, Friedrich Moll (ed.): Cologne hospital stories. In the beginning there was Napoleon ... Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-940042-00-5 , p. 409-422 .
  4. ↑ Albrecht Scholz: History of dermatology in Germany . 978-3-5406-6064-4, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-540-66064-X , p. 88 .
  5. ^ The deans of the medical faculty of the University of Cologne . In: Uniklinik Köln (Hrsg.): 100 years clinic "on the LIndenburg" - commemorative publication of the University Clinic Cologne . JP Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7616-2240-7 , p. 163 .
  6. ↑ a b Ferdinand Zinsser. Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
  7. ^ Gottfried Kricker: Medical Libraries in Cologne . Cologne 1937, p. 47 .
personal data
SURNAME Zinsser, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist, professor and rector of the University of Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1952
Place of death Tübingen