Adolf Windorfer

Adolf Windorfer (born February 7, 1909 in Falkenstein (Upper Palatinate) , † April 21, 1996 in Erlangen ) was a German pediatrician . He headed the University Children's Hospital Erlangen and was President of the Society for Pediatrics .

Life

Windorfer was born in 1909 as the son of a pharmacist and his wife in the Upper Palatinate . After graduating from the Real-Gymnasium in Regensburg, he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Hessian Ludwig University , the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University and the University of Zurich . During his studies, he joined the Danubia Munich fraternity . In 1934 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1942 he completed his habilitation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1935 to 1936 he worked as an assistant for orthopedics at the University of Munich Hospital and from 1936 as a senior physician for paediatrics at the University Children's Hospital in Frankfurt am Main . In the army (Wehrmacht) he took part in the German-Soviet war . After being a prisoner of war in 1947, he initially worked as a pediatrician in Falkenstein until he returned to Frankfurt am Main . From 1950 to 1956 he was director of the children's clinic at the Olgahospital .

In 1957 he was appointed to the chair of paediatrics at the University of Erlangen as the successor to Alfred Adam . At the same time he was director of the University Children's Hospital in Erlangen . In 1960 he refused an offer to Frankfurt to succeed his teacher Bernhard de Rudder . In 1977 he retired. His main research interests were a. in epidemic pleurodynia , infectious diseases , cystic fibrosis and poliomyelitis .

He was president, from 1979 honorary member of the Society for Pediatrics . The French Society for Pediatrics accepted him as an honorary member. In 1972 he received the Ernst von Bergmann plaque and in 1974 the Clemens von Pirquet Prize . In 1990 he was honored with the Albert B. Sabine Medal of the German Society for Social Pediatrics .

Windorfer was married and had three children.

Adolf Windorfer Prize

The Mukoviszidose eV (formerly: German Society for Combating Mukoviszidose eV , whose co-founder Winderdorfer was) awards today the Adolf Windorfer Prize for "outstanding research work" .

Fonts (selection)

• with Rolf Schlenk: The German Society for Pediatrics. Their origins and historical development . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-540-08960-8 .
• Bernhard de Rudder, Hans Truckenbrodt: Pediatric emergencies . 10th revised and expanded edition, Thieme, Stuttgart u. a. 1981, ISBN 3-13-391910-5 .

literature

• Walter Habel (ed.): Who is who? . Issue 18, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1974, p. 1169.
• Friedrich Carl Sitzmann: Adolf Windorfer (1909–1996). His work, his personality . In: Wolfgang Rascher, Renate Wittern-Sterzel (ed.): History of the University Children's Hospital Erlangen . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89971-205-6 , p. 299 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Significant Danuben , Burschenschaft Danubia Munich, accessed on March 19, 2014.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Lipomas of the Vulva with a case observed at the 2nd Gynecological Clinic and a compilation of the cases published in the domestic and foreign literature .
3. ^ Habilitation thesis: The development of epidemic polio in Germany and its epidemiological and clinical change .
4. ↑ DGKJ honorary members ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine, accessed on March 20, 2014. 
5. ↑ Award for Prof. Dr. Windorfer . In: Das Krankenhaus 65 (1973), p. 88.
6. ↑ Mukoviszidose eV awards Windorfer Prize for outstanding research work ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mukoviszidose eV, accessed December 30, 2014.