Ernest Finger

Ernest Finger

The professors at the Medical University of Vienna, chalk drawing by Olga Prager, Vienna 1908–1910. In the Dean's Office of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. Edmund von Neusser , Siegmund Exner-Ewarten , Isidor Schnabel , Ferdinand Hochstetter , Alfons Edler von Rosthorn , Anton Weichselbaum , Leopold Schrötter von Kristelli , Heinrich Obersteiner , Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Viktor von Ebner-Rofenstein , Carl Toldt , Gustav Riehl , Ottokar von Chiari , Anton von Frisch , Ernst Fuchs , Anton Freiherr von Eiselberg , Hans Horst Meyer , Ernst Ludwig , Rudolf Chrobak , Theodor Escherich , Alexander Kolisko , Julius von Hochenegg , Arthur Schattenfroh , Carl von Noorden , Emil Zuckerkandl , Richard Paltauf , Gustav Gaertner , Leopold Oser , Josef Moeller , Alois Monti , Julius Mauthner , Viktor Urbantschitsch , August Leopold von Reuss , Adolf von Strümpell , Ernest Finger, Adolf Lorenz , Friedrich Schauta

Ernest Finger also Ernst Finger (born July 8, 1856 in Prague , Austrian Empire , † April 17, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian dermatologist .

Life

Ernst Finger, born in 1856 in Prague, studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he in 1878 to Dr. med. received his doctorate. Finger was a student of Karl Ludwig Sigmund and Hans von Hebra . He then worked at the Prague and Vienna General Hospital . In 1883 he was appointed private lecturer in dermatology, in 1894 associate professor , from 1904 to 1927 full professor at the University of Vienna and head of the 2nd Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases. In 1903 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Finger was given the title of court counselor. He also served as President of the Vienna Medical Association from 1906 to 1919 and as President of the Supreme Medical Council from 1925 to 1931 . Finger died in 1939 at the age of 82. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Act

Ernest Finger carried out syphilis studies together with Karl Landsteiner . Furthermore, together with Josef Kyrle , he examined the spinal fluid of syphilitic patients and made great contributions to the establishment of sanatoriums. He saw it as one of his most important tasks to prevent or contain the spread of sexually transmitted diseases .

Fonts (selection)

• Syphilis and venereal diseases , 1888
• The blennorrhea of ​​the sexual organs , 1888, 6th edition 1906
• The skin atrophies , 1910
• The side effects of salvarsan. In: Wiener medical Wochenschrift. Volume 61, 1911, pp. 2701-2708; And on top of that: once again the question of neuro-recurrences. ibid, vol. 62, 1912, pp. 21-27.
• as ed. with others: Handbook of skin and sexually transmitted diseases. 3 in 4 volumes, Hölder, Vienna / Leipzig 1910–1916

literature

• New Free Press of July 8, 1926
• Albert Neisser and Walter Pick; Dedicated to Ernest Fischer on his 60th birthday , 1916
• Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 1926 n. 28, 1936 p. 887, 1939, p. 539
• Wiener Medical Wochenschrift 1926 p. 843, 844, 925, 1936 p. 265, 1939 p. 543
• Finger, Ern (e) st. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 316 f. (Direct links on p. 316 , p. 317 ).
• Erna Lesky:  Finger, Ernest. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 158 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Julius Pagel : Finger, Ernst . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp.  502–503 .

Web links

Commons : Ernest Finger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ernest Finger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ The college of professors at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1908–1910 . Photo credits: Collections of the Medical University of Vienna - Josephinum, picture archive; Associated personal identification .
2. ^ Grave site Ernst Finger , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 70, No. 88.