Ferdinand Siegert
Ferdinand Siegert (born April 22, 1865 in Neuwied , † February 21, 1946 in Cologne ) was a German pediatrician .
Life
Ferdinand Siegert, born in Neuwied in 1865, devoted himself to the High School a study of medicine at the University of Freiburg , where he joined the Corps Rhenania joining, casting and Strasbourg , where he end of 1889 doctorate was.
Siegert began his professional career as an assistant doctor at the Landes-Krankenhaus in Mödling , then moved to the Pathological Institute at the University of Geneva as assistant to Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn , before accepting an appointment as chief physician and assistant to Oswald Kohts at the Strasbourg University Children's Hospital. Siegert, who there in 1896 in specialist pediatric habilitation , founded in 1901 in his capacity as the first municipal-care physician infant care and a large infant sanatorium.
In 1904 Ferdinand Siegert received an extraordinary professorship for pediatrics at the University of Halle . After only a few months, Siegert left Halle, after his demands for an expansion of the children's clinic had been rejected by the ministry, and accepted an offer from the Academy for Practical Medicine in Munich for the chair in pediatrics, before moving to the chair for pediatrics in 1919 Academy for practical medicine moved to Cologne , which he held until his retirement in 1931. In 1922 he received the ribbon of the Corps Friso-Luneburgia Cologne . Ferdinand Siegert, member and later honorary member of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ), died on April 22, 1946, two months before he was 81 years old in Cologne.
In his research, Siegert, whose special commitment was to the care of babies, concentrated on infectious diseases , namely diphtheria , as well as the normal and pathological anatomy of the child's skeleton. Significant were his studies of nutritional requirements in terms of children's protein needs and his presentation of the crucial role of hereditary rickets . The Siegert's sign is named after Ferdinand Siegert , a shortening and inward curvature of the terminal phalanx of the fifth finger that occurs in Down's syndrome .
Fonts
- Four years before and after the introduction of diphtheria serum treatment. Berlin, 1900.
- The chorea minor, the St. Vitus dance: (Sydenham's chorea, chorea infectiosa.). Wuerzburg, 1907.
- Thyroid disorders. In: Handbook of Pediatrics, 2nd. Edition, Leipzig, 1910.
- Athyrecosis in childhood. In: Handbook of internal secretions, Leipzig, 1928.
Web links
- Entry on Ferdinand Siegert in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegert, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pediatrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuwied |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1946 |
| Place of death | Cologne |