Albert Alder

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Albert Alder (born October 12, 1888 in Chur , † April 23, 1980 in Aarau ) was a Swiss physician who became particularly important as a hematologist .

Life

Albert Alder was born in Chur in 1888 as the son of the grain merchant Hans and the hat maker Ilda (née Schilling). After attending the canton school in Chur , he studied medicine at the universities of Lausanne , Munich , Vienna and Zurich , where he passed the state examination in 1914 and obtained his doctorate.

Albert Alder, who married Lilly Köhler in 1917, died on April 23, 1980 in Aarau.

Professional background

In 1913 he was a participant in a mission of the Swiss Red Cross (SRK) during the First Balkan War . From 1918 to 1919 he headed a flu emergency hospital in Zurich. From 1918 to 1927 he worked as a senior physician at the Medical Polyclinic of the Cantonal Hospital in Zurich , where in 1923 he arranged for the first screen center in Switzerland to be set up with radiographs to investigate the spread of tuberculosis . After that, between 1933 and 1956, as chief physician at the medical clinic at Aarau Cantonal Hospital, he was responsible, among other things, for setting up a large laboratory. He was mainly active in the field of hematology and researched, among other things, the aging of white blood cells ( leukocytes ). In 1944, for the purpose of early detection of tuberculosis, for example , he demanded the use of mandatory screen images, which was rejected in 1947. In addition, he was appointed to the University of Zurich as a private lecturer in 1922 and as adjunct professor in 1946 . In 1947, Alder was a co-founder of the Swiss Society for Hematology . Alder's important achievements include various improvements in the examination of erythrocytes and, in 1937, the discovery of the so-called Alder anomaly, a hereditary leukocyte defect. As an expert for the prosecution called in by examining magistrate Paul Moriaud (alongside Erik Undritz and Hans Erhard Bock ) in March 1959 , he appeared in the 1960 trial in the Zumbach murder case ("Jaccoud affair") .

literature

  • Iris Ritzmann : Alder, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Karl Schleip and Albert Alder: Atlas of the blood diseases and the normal and pathological bone marrow. 4th revised and supplemented edition. Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1949 OCLC 11229427
  • Hans-Ulrich Späth: The hematologist Albert Alder 1888–1980. Zurich: Juris-Verlag 1983 ( Zurich medical history treatises. New series; No. 164), Diss. Med. Zurich OCLC 11028856

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Thorwald : The hour of the detectives. Becomes and worlds of criminology. Droemer Knaur, Zurich and Munich 1966, p. 208 f. and 243-261.
personal data
SURNAME Alder, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1980
Place of death Aarau