Fritz de Quervain
Johann Friedrich "Fritz" de Quervain (born May 4, 1868 in Sion ; † January 24, 1940 in Bern ) was a Swiss surgeon .
Live and act
Fritz de Quervain grew up in Muri near Bern and studied medicine at the University of Bern from 1887 . In 1892 he received his doctorate. He had also completed his habilitation in Bern in 1902 and was appointed adjunct professor there in 1907. From 1910 to 1918 he taught as a full professor of surgery at the University of Basel and from 1918 to 1938 as full professor and director of the surgical clinic at Inselspital at the University of Bern. Numerous basic medical research results can be traced back to him.
Several diseases he describes bear his name: tendinitis ( tendovaginitis stenosans de Quervain ), Quervain's thyroiditis , a subacute thyroiditis ( thyroiditis ), and the De Quervain fracture, a dislocation of the os lunate in combination with a scaphoid fracture .
The geophysicist Alfred de Quervain was his brother.
literature
- Ulrich Tröhler: The Swiss surgeon JF de Quervain (1868-1940). Pioneer of new international relations in the science of the interwar period. Sauerländer, Aarau 1973.
- Ulrich Tröhler: Johann Friedrich de Quervain (1868–1940) (PDF; 41 kB). JLL Bulletin, 2010. Commentaries on the history of treatment evaluation.
- Naveen K. Ahuja, Kevin C. Chung: Fritz de Quervain, MD (1868-1940): Stenosing tendovaginitis at the radial styloid process. In: The Journal of hand surgery. Volume 29, Number 6, November 2004, pp. 1164-1170, doi: 10.1016 / j.jhsa.2004.05.019 , PMID 15576233 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Müller: Surgery for study and practice . 12th edition. Medical Publishing and Information Services, Breisach 2014, ISBN 978-3-929851-11-3 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quervain, Fritz de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quervain, Johann Friedrich de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manners |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1940 |
| Place of death | Bern |