Dagmar Liechti-von Brasch

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Dagmar Alice Liechti-von Brasch (born October 11, 1911 in Dorpat , † July 23, 1993 in Zurich ) was a Swiss doctor and nutrition reformer .

Sanatorium "Lebendige Kraft" = "Bircher-Benner-Privatklinik" = "Zurich Development Center". Chalet "Alice" (1906) and "Private House" (1925/26).

life and work

Dagmar Liechti-von Brasch was in 1911 as a subsidiary of the German Baltic landowner Arved Karl Leon von Brasch (1881-1953) and the Aarauerin Hedwig Alice Bircher (1879-1916), sister of Maximilian Bircher-Benner , in Estonia born.

In 1916 the mother died of pneumonia after giving birth to her fourth child. The father sent his three eldest children, Elisabeth Heim-von Brasch (1907–1996), Arved Konrad von Brasch (1909–1943) and Dagmar to Switzerland to live with their uncle Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner's family. In 1921 the father brought the siblings Elisabeth and Arved Konrad back; Dagmar stayed in Switzerland at her own request.

She studied medicine at the University of Zurich and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . Her book on natural birth was published in 1942. From 1947 to 1980 she was chief physician at the Bircher Benner private clinic in Zurich. From 1953 she was co-editor of the Bircher Benner in-house magazine, The turning point in life and suffering, alongside Ralph Bircher (1899–1990) .

In 1958 she was in charge of the “ Pregnancy and Nutrition” section at the Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work (SAFFA) . Together with Werner Kollath , Karl Kötschau , Helmut Mommsen and others, she was a member of the scientific advisory board of the International Society for Research on Nutrition and Vital Substances, founded in 1954 by Hans Adalbert Schweigart .

She developed holistic approaches to hospital management as well as to the doctor-patient relationship . In her emphasis on the importance of presence for medical practice, she was inspired by Indian philosophy . She found her final resting place in the Fluntern cemetery .

Fonts

  • Healthy pregnancy: happy birth. Wendpunkt-Verlag, Zurich 1942.

literature

  • Felix Graf and Eberhard Wolff (eds.). Magic mountains. Switzerland as a weight room and sanatorium. Verlag hier + now, Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-03919-162-8 .
  • Marina Widmer and Kathrin Barbara Zatti: Between Birchermüesli and a philosophy of life. Dagmar Liechti-von Brasch, 1911-1993, chief physician at the Bircher Benner Clinic. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85791-567-3 .
  • Eberhard Wolff (Ed.): Lebendige Kraft. Max Bircher-Benner and his sanatorium in a historical context. Verlag hier + now, Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-03919-163-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Heim-von Brasch 1907-1996 - estate in the science history collections of the ETH library
  2. ↑ Ulrich Linse: Ralph Bircher in the 1950s and 1960s. In: Eberhard Wolff (Ed.): Lebendige Kraft. Baden 2010, p. 166.
  3. ↑ Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: Kollath, Werner. In: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich: A biographical lexicon. Walter de Gruyter 2007, p. 238
personal data
SURNAME Liechti-von Brasch, Dagmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liechti-von Brasch, Dagmar Alice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and nutrition reformer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1993
Place of death Zurich