Ernst von Sury
Ernst von Sury (born April 30, 1850 in Solothurn , † August 22, 1895 in Basel ) was a Swiss neurologist and forensic doctor .
Life
Ernst von Sury, son of the lawyer and head of the legal office of the Swiss Central Railway, Georg von Sury from a former patrician family in Solothurn , studied medicine in Basel , Heidelberg and Bern from 1868 to 1874 . From 1869 he was a member of the Corps Alamannia Basel and Rhenania Heidelberg . After the state examination , he became first assistant at the Pirminsberg insane asylum in St. Gallen . He received his doctorate in Basel in 1875, where he moved in 1877 as a specialist in nervous diseases. Habilitated in forensic medicine in 1880 , he became second physicist in 1884 and associate professor in 1890 . He died at the age of only 45.
Sury was a follower of Cesare Lombroso's teachings and a representative of the criminalistic-anthropological school. He was involved in the International Criminological Association . With the translation of Alphonse Bertillon's book The Anthropometric Signalement , he earned services for the introduction of this innovation in criminology .
literature
- Julius Leopold Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 1681 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Teichmann : The University of Basel in the fifty years since its reorganization in 1835. Schultze'sche Universitätsbuchdruckerei, Basel 1895, p. 52 ( online ).
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 1/26; 70/189.
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| SURNAME | Sury, Ernst von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss neurologist and forensic doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solothurn |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1895 |
| Place of death | Basel |