Alfred Schmid (doctor)

Alfred Schmid (born November 13, 1884 in Bern ; † January 15, 1946 ibid), entitled to live in Wimmis , was a Swiss doctor .

Alfred Schmid was born as the son of Adolf Schmid and Elisabeth Salvisberg and grew up in Mühleberg . He attended the Freie Gymnasium Bern and studied at the universities of Bern , where he became a member of the Swiss Zofinger Association , then in Munich , Jena and Marburg . He passed the state examination in 1910 and completed his time as an assistant doctor at Inselspital in Bern. In 1914 he opened a practice as a surgeon and urologist in Bern, and in 1918 he married Anna Selina Faisst. From 1920 he devoted himself more and more to electrical and radiation therapy and from 1938 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Bern. Alfred Schmid collected bibliophile medical books. His library was auctioned in Germany in 1983.

Fonts

• Bibliographical information on the early history of electricity and its medical application , Bern 1931.
• Biological effects of air electricity with consideration of artificial ionization. Observations, experiments and hypotheses from the middle of the 18th century to the present , Bern – Leipzig 1936.
• About the combined high-voltage current and its therapeutic application , Bern 1937.
• About old herbal books , Bern 1939.

literature

• Urs Boschung: Schmid, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Fritz Graf: 100 years of the Freie Gymnasium Bern 1859–1959 , Bern 1959.
• Erich Hintzsche; Alfred Schmid . In: Mitteilungen der Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Bern, NF 4 (1947), pp. 149–156. on-line
• Library Dr. Alfred Schmid, Bern. Old prints, Helvetica, medicine, herbal books, natural sciences, literature, miscellaneous. Auction on April 12, 1983 (catalog), Glashütten im Taunus, Reiss & Auvermann 1983.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hintzsche 1947, p. 149.
2. ^ Graf 1959, p. 209.
3. ↑ Hintzsche 1947, p. 149.
4. ↑ Hintzsche 1947, p. 149.
5. ↑ Google books