Bernfried Leiber

Bernfried Leiber (born September 30, 1919 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 16, 2003 in Neu-Isenburg ) was a German pediatrician and university professor .

Life

Bernfried Leiber, son of Photo chemist Ferdinand Leiber, devoted himself to the put-away Abitur a study of medicine at the universities of Berlin , Leipzig and Jena , which he in 1945 in Jena with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. After years of assistantship , Leiber completed his habilitation in 1950 in Jena with Jussuf Ibrahim as a private lecturer in paediatrics, in 1952 he took the position of senior clinical physician with Friedrich Hartmut Dost at the children's clinic of the Charité of the Humboldt University in Berlin, where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1954 .

Bernfried Leiber moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1958 , worked as a pediatrician and founded the independent documentation and research department for clinical nosology and semiotics as a "central collection and information point for rare, unusual and new diseases" at the in 1969 with the support of the Volkswagenwerk Foundation University of Frankfurt am Main , whose direction he took over, in 1972 he was promoted to full professor.

Bernfried Leiber - his research areas spanned paediatrics as well as medical informatics - achieved notoriety in particular through his work "Dictionary of Clinical Syndromes" , ISBN 978-3-541-01706-5 , published with Gertrud Olbrich , published in a total of 6 editions.

Other works

• About parenteral resorption processes in various tissues and body cavities under normal and pathological conditions, dissertation , Jena, 1945
• Rheumatic infection and age. Investigations and considerations on the pathophysiology of age disposition in childhood, habilitation thesis , Jena, 1950
• Age biology of acute rheumatism, Steinkopff, 1952
• The human lymph node, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1961
• Mit Friedrich Hartmut Dost: Menthol and menthol-containing external remedies: Use, mode of effect and tolerance in children. International symposium, Paris, April 1966, Thieme, 1967
• With Theodor Olbert: The clinical eponyms: medical proper name terms in clinic and practice, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1968
• With Michael Radke, Manfred Müller: The Baby Lexicon: ABC of early childhood, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2001 ISBN 3423362219

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. Volume 2, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3110074346 , page 2268.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? : the German who's who, Volume 42 , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 2003. ISBN 3795020360 . Page 859.

Web links

• Obituary for Bernfried Leiber in Deutsches Ärzteblatt on November 21, 2003