Carl Haffter

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Carl Haffter (born January 26, 1909 in Berg ; † January 13, 1996 in Basel ) was a Swiss child and youth psychiatrist .

Life

Carl Haffter-Gass (1909–1996) child and youth psychiatrist, Ruth Haffter-Gass (1923–2015) grave in the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Haffter came from a family of doctors, his great-grandfather was Elias Haffter . After the state examination in 1934, he turned to psychiatry. From 1942 he was secondary or senior physician at the cantonal sanatorium and nursing home Friedmatt and from May 1945 head physician at the Psychiatric Polyclinic at Petersgraben. He turned to child and adolescent psychiatry, to which he could devote himself exclusively from mid-1955. He headed the newly established child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic. In 1973 he was appointed associate professor for child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Basel . In 1974 Haffter retired. His successor was Dieter Bürgin .

Haffter was president of the jury of the SGGMN's " Henry E. Sigerist Prize for the Promotion of Young Talent in the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences" from late 1970 to 1988 and from 1982 to 1988 editor of the magazine for the history of the SGGMN Medicine and Natural Sciences Gesnerus .

Fonts (selection)

  • The effect of heavy water (D₂O) on the heart, muscles and nerves. Buchdruckerei Frei, Wehrli & Früh, Sirnach 1936 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1936).
  • Healing in Switzerland. Swiss Headquarters for Transport Promotion, Zurich 1939.
  • Children from divorced marriages: An investigation into the influence of divorce on the fate and development of children according to medical, legal and welfare issues. Huber, Bern 1948 (habilitation thesis, University of Basel, 1948); 3rd edition 1979, ISBN 3-456-80761-9 .
  • with Gunnar Waage, Lenore Zumpe: Suicide attempts in children and adolescents. Karger, Basel 1966.
  • The Haffter family of doctors. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Vol. 55, 1980, pp. 35-45 ( e-periodica.ch ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 18th edition. Vol. 3, p. 3706.
  2. ↑ a b c Prof. Carl Haffter (1903–1996). In: Gesnerus . Vol. 52 (1995), p. 247.
  3. ^ History of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic Basel , website “550 Years of the University of Basel”, accessed on May 6, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Haffter, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss child and youth psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH mountain
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1996
Place of death Basel