Alfred Labhardt

Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Alfred Labhardt (born March 24, 1874 in Basel ; † December 14, 1949 there ) was a Swiss gynecologist and obstetrician .

Live and act

Alfred Labhardt was born in Basel as the son of the businessman and glass manufacturer Johann Jakob Labhardt and his wife Eugenie. He spent part of his youth with his maternal grandfather, Friedrich Gustav von Stetten , in Mulhouse in Alsace . He then graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Basel and studied medicine at the universities of Basel and Tübingen .

He then began working as an assistant doctor in the Aarau Cantonal Hospital with the surgeon Heinrich Bircher (1850-1923) and later moved to the Surgical Clinic of the Albertus University in Königsberg under Carl Garrè (1857-1928). From 1902 Labhardt worked at the women's hospital at the University of Basel with Otto von Herff (1856-1916). There he was appointed senior physician in 1904 . In 1906 Alfred Labhardt completed his habilitation , was appointed private lecturer in the same year, and in 1916 he was appointed professor and director of the women's clinic, which he headed until he left in 1942.
In 1934 Labhardt was elected rector of the university.

Labhardt established an optimal aseptic in gynecology and obstetrics and advocated clinical delivery instead of birth in a private home. He expanded the indication for caesarean section , which in 1935 already accounted for 2.19% of births in the Basel clinic. Among the gynecological operations he introduced , a form of tube sterilization and a method of operation for uterine prolapse , the Colpoperineocleisis subtotalis, which is named after him, are associated with his name. The livid discoloration of the vaginal introitus during pregnancy is called Labhart's sign , a sign of pregnancy.
Scientifically, Labhardt devoted himself above all to basic biological-clinical research, in particular to the endocrinology of the ovary . He was an opponent of the social indication of abortion and devoted himself to family planning.

Alfred Labhardt died in his hometown of Basel in 1949 at the age of 75.

Fonts

• About traumatic tuberculosis in surgery. Dissertation , University of Basel 1899
• On the question of the permanent healing of cancer. Bruns' Contributions to Clinical Surgery 33, 1902
• The behavior of the nerves in the substance of the uterus. Arch Gynecol 80, 1906
• The fight against cancer. Basler Nachrichten No. 318-22, 1906
• A simple method of tube sterilization. Zbl Gynecol 35, 1911
• The obstetric and gynecological clinic in Basel in the first 50 years of its existence (1868–1918). Corr.bl. f. Swiss Doctors 48, 1918
• Punishable abortion in the canton of Basel-Stadt? Z Sexualwiss 6, 1919
• The diseases of the vagina. In: Handbook of the biology and pathology of women. Volume III, 1924
• The doctor's opinion on the question of contraception. Schweizer med Wschr 54, 1924
• The calculation of the conception date from the child's length in paternity processes. Schweizer med Wschr 74, 1944
• The question of abortion. Swiss Z charity 65, 1926
• The natural role of women in the human problem and how culture influences it. Rector's speech in 1934
• The University of Basel. 1937
• The diseases of the external genital organs. In: Handbook of the biology and pathology of women. Volume IV, 1944
• Swiss midwifery textbook. (Ed. With G. Rossier, H. Guggisberg , P. Jung) 1920

literature

• Heinrich Buess: Alfred Labhardt. In: Theodor Koller: 1868-1968, 100 years of obstetrics and gynecology in Basel. Schwabe, 1970, pp. 216-64
• F. Rintelen: History of the medical faculty in Basel 1900-45. 1980, pp. 220-29
• Heinrich Buess:  Labhardt, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 364 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Boner: The University of Basel in the years 1914-1939. Basel 1943

Web links

• Picture and brief information from the University of Basel