Erwin Uehlinger
Erwin Uehlinger (born August 8, 1899 in Schaffhausen , † April 18, 1980 in Zollikon ; reformed ; resident in Neunkirch and Schaffhausen) was a Swiss pathologist .
Life
Erwin Uehlinger, son of the director of the Rauschenbach machine factory and city councilor Arthur Uehlinger and Johanna Ida geb. Freuler , after graduating from high school, began studying medicine at the University of Zurich , which he completed in 1925 with the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. He then devoted himself to pathology, first under Ernst Hedinger, later under Hans von Meyenburg at the Pathological Institute of the University of Zurich. There Uehlinger was appointed senior physician, ie prosector , in 1933 as a private lecturer in 1929 , and in 1939 he was appointed adjunct professor .
In 1940 Uehlinger was appointed head of the pathological institute at the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital , and in 1953 he returned to Zurich, where he succeeded Hans von Meyenburg as the chair of pathology, which he held until his retirement in 1970. Uehlinger earned services to research into the pathology of the skeleton, lungs and tuberculosis . He received honorary doctorates from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , in 1969 he became a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
Erwin Uehlinger - he married the doctor Ruth geb. Frauchiger - died 1980 at the age of 80 in Zollikon. He was the grandson of Hermann Freuler and the brother of the forester Arthur Uehlinger jun.
From 1956 he published the handbook of special and pathological anatomy and histology at Springer. The handbook was founded by Friedrich Henke and Otto Lubarsch and was continued as editor by Robert Rössle from 1931 . A further 13 volumes were published under Uehlinger. From 1956, Uehlinger was co-editor of Virchow's archive and the special pathological anatomy with Wilhelm Doerr and later Gerhard Seifert . His main research areas were bone pathology and x-ray diagnostics of pathological findings.
Fonts
- About bone lymphogranulomatosis. Habilitation thesis. Springer, Berlin 1933.
- Myositis ossificans progressiva. Thieme, 1936.
- with Werner Jadassohn , Hans Eduard Fierz : About the effect of female sex hormones on the epithelium of the guinea pig teat. In: Swiss Medical Weekly. Year 71, No. 1. Schwabe, Basel 1941.
- with Otto Gsell: The clinical picture of spinal varicose veins. In: Helvetica Medica Acta. Volume 11, Issue 1/2. Schwabe, Basel 1944.
literature
- Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 125.
- Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Vol. 2: R - Z. , Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 , p. 637.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: On a case of diffuse rhabdomyoma of the heart
- ^ Member entry by Erwin Uehlinger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
- ↑ Götze, Springer-Verlag, Volume 2, Springer, 1994, p. 28, p. 48
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uehlinger, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pathologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaffhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1980 |
| Place of death | Zollikon |