Achilles Müller

Achilles August Müller also Müller-Kober (born January 3, 1877 in Basel ; † December 24, 1964 there ; entitled to live in Basel) was a Swiss surgeon and urologist .

Life

Family and education

The reformed baptized Achilles Müller, son of the Vice Director of the Swiss National Bank in Basel August Müller and his spouse Elise born Mechel, turned to the acquisition of the Swiss Matura the study of medicine at the University of Tübingen and the University of Basel , put there In 1901 he passed the state examination, in 1902 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . Achilles Müller then completed his specialist training as a surgeon and urologist in Berlin , Paris and Vienna . Achilles Müller married Theodora-Dorothea Marie Luise Kober (1879–1965) on September 17, 1907 in Basel. He died on Christmas Eve 1964 a few days before he would turn 88 in his home town of Basel.

Professional background

After completing his doctorate, Achilles Müller held an assistant doctor position at the surgical clinic of the University of Basel. After completing his specialist training, Müller took on the positions of surgeon and urologist at the Deaconess Hospital in Riehen near Basel in 1912 . Achilles Müller, who was later promoted to chief surgeon, resigned from his office in 1948. At the same time, Achilles Müller ran a urological practice in Basel. Müller earned merit in particular for his three decades of cystoscopic examinations , which began in 1924, of hundreds of employees in the chemical industry and their scientific evaluation, as well as for studying the bladder tumors of those exposed to amine .

Achilles Müller was a member of the Swiss Society for Surgery, the Swiss Society for Urology, the Société Internationale d'Urologie and the Association Française d'Urologie.

Fonts

• One hundred cases of perityphlitis from the Basel surgical clinic, dissertation , L. Schumacher, Berlin, 1902
• On cystinuria and cystine stones, Perles, Vienna, 1911
• About prostate atrophy: after a lecture, Basel, 1914
• Submission by the Medical Society of Basel to the tit. large council commission for the revision of the school law and the tit. Head of the Basel Education Department regarding physical education in schools, E. Birkhäuser, Basel, 1924
• In Memoriam Prof. L. Rütimeyer , Basel, 1932
• Loss of the left kidney due to ascending venous thrombosis, Schwabe, Basel, 1943
• Dr. Albert Lotz, Benno Schwabe a. Co, Basel, 1953

literature

• Louis Nagel, Stephen Taylor: Who's who in Switzerland: Including the Principality of Liechtenstein 1962-1963: a Biographical Dictionary Containing about 2600 Biographies of Prominent People in and of Switzerland (including the Principality of Liechtenstein), Nagel Publisher, Geneva, 1962, p 328.
• Eberhard Zellweger, Pastor: In memory of Dr. Achilles Müller-Kober: January 3, 1877 - December 24, 1964, Basel, 1964
• German Society for Occupational Safety and Health, Frankfurt am Main: Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin und Arbeitsschutz, Volume 15, Fischer [etc.], Heidelberg, 1965, p. 47.
• Swiss Society for Natural Sciences: Negotiations by the Swiss Society for Natural Sciences: Actes de la Société helvétique des sciences naturelles. Atti della Società elvetiva di scienze naturali, volumes 146-147, E. Birkhäuser, Basel, 1966, p. 178.
• Urologia, Volume 37, Treviso [etc.], 1970, p. 282.
• Basel publications on the history of medicine and biology, part 32, Benno Schwabe u. Co, Basel, 1979, p. 43.
• Daniel Misteli: The Basel urologist Achilles Müller 1877-1964 as a doctor, researcher and pioneer in the fight against aniline tumors, dissertation, University of Bern, Bern, 1987

Web links

• Literature by and about Achilles Müller in the catalog of the German National Library