Emil Feer
Emil Feer (born March 5, 1864 in Aarau , † October 21, 1955 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pediatrician .
Life
Emil Feer was born the son of a silk manufacturer. He married Rosa Louise Sulzer von Winterthur in 1891.
Feer studied medicine in Munich , Heidelberg and Basel . In 1889 he passed the state examination , in 1890 he received his doctorate . In 1891 he opened the first practice exclusively specializing in pediatrics in Basel . In 1894 he completed his habilitation there. In 1907 he received an appointment as associate professor and director of the children's clinic ("Luisenheilanstalt") in Heidelberg. In 1911 he moved to Zurich , where he held the chair of paediatrics and the directorate of the children's hospital until 1929 . His successor as director of the Heidelberg Children's Clinic was Ernst Moro . Emil Feer became a member of the Leopoldina in 1933 .
His textbook for paediatrics became a classic and appeared in fourteen editions and in different languages between 1911 and 1942, and his Diagnosis of Childhood Diseases between 1921 and 1951 in six editions.
Works
- Pediatric textbook . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1911
- Diagnosis of childhood diseases . J. Springer, Berlin 1921
literature
- Hans Schadewaldt: Feer, Walther Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 45 ( digitized version ).
- Emil Feer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 05/1956 from January 23, 1956, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
- Angela Weirich and Georg F. Hoffmann: From the private, predominantly charitable children's sanatorium (1869) to the State University Children's Hospital Heidelberg (1923) , pp. 28–57, to Emil Feer, pp. 46 + 47, in: Georg F. Hoffmann , Wolfgang U Eckart , Philipp Osten (Ed.): Developments and perspectives in child and adolescent medicine: 150 years of pediatrics in Heidelberg , Verlag Kirchheim, Mainz 2010, pp. 57–77 (PDF).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography at Ahneninfo.com ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Historical Lexicon of Switzerland speaks of 1894, the Munzinger Archive of 1895.
- ^ Member entry by Emil Feer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 28, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feer, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feer-Sulzer, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pediatrician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aarau |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1955 |
| Place of death | Zurich |