Erich Hintzsche

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Erich Hintzsche (born August 26, 1900 in Halberstadt ; † July 20, 1975 in Spiegel ) was a Swiss doctor and medical historian of German origin, as well as a lecturer and professor at the University of Bern .

Life

Hintzsche's father was a Prussian civil servant. In 1918 Hintzsche passed the Abitur . From 1919 he was enrolled at the Medical Faculty of the University of Halle . In 1925 he received his doctorate under the direction of Hermann Stieve at the anatomical institute of the same university. In the same year he married Hilde Köppe, with whom he later had two daughters. He then became Stieve's assistant.

In 1928, Stieve got him a position as a prosector at the University of Bern. Hintzsche then moved with his wife to Bern, where he was soon under the anatomical influence of Professor Karl Wilhelm Zimmermann (1861-1935). In 1928 Hintzsche became a private lecturer at the University of Bern. Hintzsche remained a prosector under Zimmermann's successor, Hans Bluntschli . In 1935 he became an associate professor .

In 1947 Hintzsche replaced Bluntschli as full professor and director of the Anatomical Institute. Soon he also received Swiss citizenship . From 1947 to 1957 Hintzsche was in contact with Henry E. Sigerist . In 1967 Hintzsche resigned as full professor and became the supervisor of the medical history library at the University of Bern. For his research on Albrecht von Haller , he received the Burgerliche Medal for services to the city of Bern .

Publications

  • as ed. with Alfred Schmid : Conrad Türst's iatromathematisches health booklet for the Bernese mayor Rudolf von Erlach. Bern 1947 (= Bern contributions to the history of medicine and the natural sciences. Volume 7).
  • Guilelmus Fabricius Hildanus 1560-1634. Festschrift [on the occasion of the 1947–1972 anniversary] 25 years of Lindopharm Rönsberg KG Hilden. Hilden 1972 (reprint, for the meeting of the Rheinischer Kreis on November 6, 1982 in Hilden, 1982); 2nd, modified edition, ibid 1973.
  • As editor: Albrecht von Haller's letters to Auguste Tissot [?]: 1754-1777 . Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna: Huber, 1977. ISBN 3456805071 ( Review by Nikolaus Mani in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . Book Reviews. Vol.XXII, No. 2, pp. 205-206, 1967).
  • As editor: Albrecht Haller's diaries of his travels to Germany, Holland and England: 1723-1727. Berner Contributions to the History of Medicine and the Natural Sciences , Volume 4. Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna: Huber, 1971.
  • Medicine and medicine since 1870 in the mirror of the Swiss Medical Weekly. Basel / Stuttgart: Schwabe AG , 1971. ISBN 3796505724
  • Editor and author of notes: Albrecht von Haller: Diary of his study trip to London, Paris, Strasbourg and Basel: 1727 - 1728 . Berner Contributions to the History of Medicine and the Natural Sciences, Volume 2. Bern / Stuttgart: Huber, 1968.
  • With Hermann Rennefahrt . 600 years Inselspital : 1354-1954 . Bern: Hans Huber Verlag, 1954.
  • Wilhelm Fabry : Thorough report of the hot and cold fire, which is called Gangraena et Sphacelus or S. Antonii- and Martialis fire. After the second German edition published in 1603, edited and edited. by Erich Hintzsche, Bern and Stuttgart 1965 (= Huber's classics of medicine and natural sciences , 4)

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Marcel H. Bickel. Henry E. Sigerist: Four selected correspondence with medical historians in Switzerland . Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 2008. pp. 533-535.
  2. Marcel H. Bickel. Henry E. Sigerist: Four selected correspondence with medical historians in Switzerland . Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 2008. pp. 535-536.