Anton Christian Fonio

Bookplate : «Dr. A. Fonio », 1921, designed by Erwin Friedrich Baumann

Anton Christian Fonio (born September 27, 1881 in Parma , † April 4, 1968 in Chur ; resident in Samedan and Sils in the Engadine ) was a Swiss surgeon .

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Anton Christian Fonio, son of the Swiss farmer Giacomo Emilio Fonio, who lives in Italy, grew up in San Lazzaro near Parma . He graduated from high school in Chur and studied medicine in Zurich , Munich and Bern . He worked as an assistant to Hermann Sahli and Theodor Kocher and was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Fonio has written papers on blood clotting and platelet counting techniques . From 1914 to 1944 he was chief surgeon in the Langnau district hospital in the Emmental . From 1918 he carried out operations with blood transfusions . Fonio was internationally known as a connoisseur of hemophilia , for the research of which he wrote family trees. At the University of Bern, he was appointed private lecturer for special surgical cases in 1920 and associate professor for general surgery in 1930. Fonio invented the production of blood products in 1942 , and in 1943 he introduced blood transfusions to the army , where he was head of a military medical facility. He was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize in 1951 . Fonio was a co-founder of the Swiss Society for Hematology . From 1952 he headed the blood donation service at the Cantonal Hospital in Chur . He spent his old age in Sils.

literature

• Pierrin Ratti: Anton Christian Fonio September 27, 1881 to April 5, 1968. In: Bulletin of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences . Vol. 24 (1968), pp. 120 f. ( online ).
• Riet Campell: Anton Chr. Fonio 1881–1968. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . Vol. 149 (1969), Part. 1, p. 271 f. ( online ).
• Marta Meyer-Salzmann : History of Medicine in the Emmental. District Hospital, Sumiswald 1979.

Web links

• Marta Meyer-Salzmann : Fonio, Anton Christian. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .