Eduard Egarter Vigl

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Eduard Egarter Vigl (official first name Edoardo ; born August 30, 1949 in Bozen ) is an Italian doctor and scientist from South Tyrol . He gained fame primarily through his work as the conservation officer of the glacier mummy Ötzi and coordinator of its research, as well as through his scientific publications on this topic.

Life

Egarter Vigl attended the Franziskanergymnasium Bolzano until his Matura in 1968 and then studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and the Università degli Studi di Padova . He completed his specialist training in pathology and laboratory medicine at the Università degli Studi di Milano and graduated in 1981. In 1984 Egarter Vigl completed additional specialist training in general and special pathology in Munich .

He began his medical and professional career in 1979 as an assistant doctor in the pathological institute of the LMU . In 1984 he moved to the pathological institute in Bolzano, where he worked as a senior physician (1984–1988) and finally as a primary school until his retirement in 2009.

From 1989 on, Egarter Vigl worked as a forensic pathologist on behalf of the Bolzano Regional Court after his retirement at the Bolzano Central Hospital .

In 1998 he began working as curator of the glacier mummy Ötzi exhibited in the South Tyrolean Archaeological Museum in Bolzano, whose research he coordinated until 2015. His successor as curator was Oliver Peschel .

From 1989 to 2001 he led the course for medical-technical assistants at the State College for Health Professions "Claudiana" in Bolzano. From 2009, i.e. since his retirement as a pathologist, until 2016 he was head of the scientific advisory board at the university. In 2016 Egarter-Vigl was appointed head of the board of trustees of Schloss Prösels .

Scientific activity

Egarter Vigl's scientific work became known in particular through his research on the glacier mummy Ötzi. The pathologist has contributed to numerous studies in this area, including in the following areas:

  • Research into and perfecting the conservation conditions of the glacier mummy
  • Research into the numerous tattoos on Ötzi's skin
  • Research into the wounds of the glacier mummy including the cut to the right hand, the injury to the skull and the spearhead wound to the shoulder
  • Decryption of Ötzi’s DNA and statistical analysis
  • Investigation of the circumstances that led to the death of the man from Tisenjoch

In addition, Egarter Vigl was part of the three-person team of experts who inspected Tutankhamun's mummy in a computed tomographic examination in 2005 and thus contributed to clarifying the cause of death.

Apart from his work in the field of general pathology , paleopathology and mummy research, Egarter Vigl has also contributed to a number of scientific publications in the fields of epidemiology , tumor prevention, dermatological pathology and tumor classification .

As the person in charge of the pathological institute at the central hospital in Bolzano, he founded a nationwide pathology service with intraoperative rapid section diagnostics and autopsy activities .

literature

  • Eduard Egarter Vigl, Heinrich Schwazer: Ötzi's personal physician: Ötzi, Tutankhamun and other criminal cases. Heinrich Schwazer in conversation with the pathologist Eduard Egarter Vigl . Edition Raetia, Bozen 2017, ISBN 978-88-7283-430-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detail CTU - Dr. EGARTER VIGL Edoardo | Tribunale di Bolzano. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Pathology Primary Eduard Egarter Vigl retires. (No longer available online.) Südtirol Online , August 27, 2009, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 .;
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Eduard Egarter-Vigl. mamazone - women and research against breast cancer e. V., accessed on October 7, 2011 (Curriculum Vitae).
  4. ↑ Pensionamento Dr. Edoardo Egarter Vigl. South Tyrolean medical company - Bolzano health district, August 31, 2009, archived from the original on October 5, 2007 ; Retrieved October 7, 2011 (press release).
  5. ↑ a b Kai Michel: His greatest case. Die Zeit , September 8, 2007, accessed October 7, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Ötzi's ex- personal doctor put on hold. (No longer available online.) Südtirol Online, February 3, 2016, archived from the original on February 3, 2016 .;
  7. ↑ Ötzi's long-time personal physician, the new lord of the Prösler castle. (No longer available online.) Südtirol Online, May 20, 2016, archived from the original on September 22, 2016 .;
  8. ↑ In the future, Ötzi should preserve pure nitrogen. Der Standard , February 19, 2011, accessed October 7, 2011 .
  9. ^ Dorfer et al .: 5200-Year-Old Acupuncture in Central Europe? In: Science . tape 282 , no. 10 , 1998, pp. 239 .
  10. ↑ a b Dorfer et al .: A medical report from the stone age? In: The Lancet . tape 354 , 1999, p. 1023-1025 .
  11. ↑ Nerlich et al .: Ötzi had a wound on his right hand . In: The Lancet . tape 362 , 2003, p. 334 .
  12. ↑ Endicott et al .: Genotyping human ancient mtDNA control and coding region polymorphisms with a multiplexed single-base-extension assay: the singular maternal history of the Tyrolean Iceman . In: BMC Genetics . tape 10 , no. 29 , 2009.
  13. ^ Nerlich et al .: New evidence for Otzi's final trauma . In: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine . tape 35 , no. 6 , 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Egarter Vigl, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egarter-Vigl, Eduard; Egarter Vigl, Edoardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano , Italy