Bruno Bloch

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Bruno Bloch (1878–1933) dermatologist, university professor
Bruno Bloch

Bruno Bloch (born January 19, 1878 in Oberendingen ; † April 10, 1933 in Zurich ) was a Swiss dermatologist (dermatologist) and university professor .

Life

Bloch was the son of the doctor Lémann Bloch and his wife Mathilde geb. Guggenheim. Bruno Bloch's father was the first Swiss Jew to be admitted to medical school. After graduating from high school , Bruno Bloch studied medicine in Basel . After receiving his doctorate in 1904, he became an assistant to Wilhelm His . He specializes in dermatology and went on study trips to Vienna (with Gustav Riehl ), Berlin and Paris. Bloch deepened his dermatological knowledge with Josef Jadassohn in Bern . In 1908 he became a private lecturer in dermatology and syphilidology . The subject of his habilitationat the University of Basel were dermatomycoses . Five years later Bloch became Associate Professor and Director of the Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Basel. From 1916 until his death he was a full professor and the first professor of Dermatology and Venereology in Zurich. In this role he initiated the moulage collection at the University of Zurich.

Bloch's work includes important contributions to the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases. In 1926 he first described the incontinentia pigmenti , which today bears his name and that of Marion Baldur Sulzberger as Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome . Sulzberger described the disease a year after Bloch. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Bloch's wife founded the Professor Bruno Bloch Foundation in 1935, which promotes scientific work at the Zurich Dermatological Clinic, in particular for research into skin cancer .

Publications (selection)

  • The historical foundations of embryology up to Harvey. In: Nova acta. Treatises of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. Volume 80, No. 3, (Halle an der Saale) 1904, pp. 215–334.
  • The general pathological significance of dermatomycoses. Marhold, Halle 1913.
  • The trunk movement of the artificial leg carriers and their connection with the constructive formation of the artificial legs. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1919.
  • The venereal diseases. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1921.
  • Skin anatomy. Springer, Berlin 1927
  • The Dermatological University Clinic, Zurich. Rockefeller Foundation, New York 1929.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b P. Altmeyer: Bloch, Bruno. ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) According to: M. Geiges: Bloch, Bruno. In: C. Löser, F. Plewig (Ed.): Pantheon der Dermatologie. Springer Medizin Verlag, pp. 198-204.
  2. Caroline Jagella Denoth: Bruno Bloch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 7, 2002 , accessed August 13, 2011 .
  3. UZH - Moulage Museum - Moulage History Zurich. In: moulagen.uzh.ch. Retrieved April 7, 2014 .
  4. B. Bloch: peculiar pigment affection (Incontinentia pigmenti) not previously described. In: Switzerland Med Wschr. Volume 7, 1926, p. 404.
  5. MB Sulzberger: About a previously not described congenital pigment anomaly (Incontinentia pigmenti). In: Arch Derm Syph. Volume 154, 1927, pp. 19-32.
  6. ^ Bruno Bloch Foundation , Dermatological Clinic of the University Hospital Zurich