Ernst Hanhart

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Ernst Hanhart (born March 14, 1891 in Zurich ; † September 5, 1973 in Ascona ) was a Swiss internist , human geneticist and racial theorist .

Life

Hanhart studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg , Munich and Zurich . After receiving his doctorate in Zurich in 1916, he first worked as a country doctor. In 1921 he became an assistant at the Zurich University Polyclinic, where he worked under Otto Nägeli and Wilhelm Löffler . Hanhart began to be interested in human genetics and specialized in hereditary diseases . In 1938 he was accepted into the Leopoldina . In 1943 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Zurich . In 1941 he was a founding member of the Swiss Society for Heredity Research .

Hanhart was co-editor of the Nazi standard work Handbuch der Erbbiologie des Menschen .

The Richner-Hanhart Syndrome is named after him. Other syndromes he describes can be found under Hanhart syndrome .

Fonts

  • About the official death survey due to the circumstances in the various countries and with special consideration of the experiences in the canton of Zurich. Speidel and Wurzel, Zurich 1916 (dissertation, University of Zurich).
  • About heredodegenerative dwarfism with dystrophia adiposo-genitalis on the basis of studies in three clans of proportioned dwarfs. In: Archive of the Julius Klaus Foundation for Heredity Research, Social Anthropology and Racial Hygiene. Vol. 1 (1925), no. 2, pp. 181-257 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich).
  • Günther Just , in community with Karl Heinrich Bauer , Ernst Hanhart, Johannes Lange (Ed.): Handbuch der Erbbiologie des Menschen. 5 volumes in 7 parts. Springer, Berlin 1939/1940.
  • 800 cases of Mongoloidism from a constitutional perspective. In: Archive of the Julius Klaus Foundation for Heredity Research, Social Anthropology and Racial Hygiene. Vol. 35 (1960), H. 1/2, pp. 1-312.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hanhart, Ernst. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 4 (2006), p. 411 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Hanhart , Whonamedit? A dictionary of medical eponyms, accessed October 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ Thomas Huonker : Diagnosis: "Morally defective". Castration, sterilization and racial hygiene in the service of Swiss social policy and psychiatry 1890–1970. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-06003-6 , p. 134 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Julian Schütt : The madness of the Swiss racial hygienists. In: Die Weltwoche . March 13, 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Hanhart, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physician and racial theorist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1973
Place of death Ascona