Adolf Lukas Vischer

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Adolf Lukas Vischer (1884–1974), chief physician at the old people's home at the Basel Citizens' Hospital.  Editor and writer.  Jeanne Vischer-von Bonstetten (1897–1970) Family grave: Vischer-Bilfinger-Heussler-Speiser-von Bonstetten-Staehelin.  Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Adolf Lukas Vischer, family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Adolf Lukas Vischer (born December 31, 1884 in Basel ; † July 13, 1974 there ) was a Swiss physician .

Vischer worked at the Swiss Embassy in London during the First World War and visited civil and military prisoners; he became the world's most important expert on the " barbed wire disease ", which he also published in English ( Barbed Wire Disease ).

The “Adolf Lukas Vischer-Haus” retirement home at Steinengraben 75 in Basel is named after him. He found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery .

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  1. ^ Matthew Stibbe : The Internment of Civilians by Belligerent States during the First World War and the Response of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In: Journal of Contemporary History . Volume 41, No. 1, January 2006, p. 16. doi : 10.1177 / 0022009406058669