Erik Undritz
Erik Undritz (born May 25, 1901 in Reval , † December 26, 1984 in Basel ) was a Swiss doctor and blood specialist .
Life
Undritz was born as the son of a Baltic German pastor in Reval and studied medicine in Dorpat . He became seriously ill with tuberculosis. The disease first required an operation (burning out the larynx) in the Black Forest and then, when he also got pulmonary tuberculosis , extended stays in a sanatorium in Switzerland. From 1927 to 1938 he also worked as an assistant doctor in various sanatoriums in Arosa, Montana and Locarno. He then became a research associate at the hematology laboratory of the Sandoz company , of which he later became head. At Sandoz he created an extensive collection of blood counts of all possible animal species. In his day he was one of the leading hematologists, and his Sandoz (1950) hematological tables were a standard work. He was also an honorary lecturer in hematology at the University of Basel . He also became known as a forensic expert who was instrumental in investigating the traces of blood and the outcome of the 1960 trial in the Pierre Jaccoud case .
The Undritz anomaly ( hypersegmentation of cell nuclei in polymorphonuclear leukocytes ) was named after him. The former private collection of the physician, which contains 1195 book titles, is now in the possession of the Nordost-Bibliothek Lüneburg and can be researched there.
literature
- Jürgen Thorwald : The hour of the detectives. Becomes and worlds of criminology. Droemer Knaur, Zurich and Munich 1966, pp. 208–264, here: pp. 208 f. and 229-264.
Web links
- Publications by Erik Undritz - IDS Basel / Bern.
- In memoriam Erik Undritz In: Annals of Hematology ; Springer Berlin / Heidelberg; ISSN 0939-5555 ; Volume 53, Number 5, November 1986. doi : 10.1007 / BF00321105
- Publications - PubMed database
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Erik Undritz. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Basler Stadtbuch ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Undritz Anomaly. In: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man . (English).
- ↑ Nordost-Bibliothek on the homepage of the Nordost-Institut
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Undritz, Erik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss doctor and blood specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1984 |
| Place of death | Basel |