George Chapchal

George Chapchal (born October 30, 1911 in Moscow , † May 25, 1999 in Meggen LU ) was a Dutch doctor and orthopedist .

Life

Family and education

The old Catholic baptized George Chapchal, son of the artist couple Jacques and Margarethe Chapchal, passed the matriculation examination at the German secondary school in The Hague . He then devoted himself to studying medicine at the University of Leiden , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Chapchal passed medical state exams in Munich in 1939 and in Leiden in 1941.

George Chapchal married Westermann, born Westermann in Utrecht in 1942 . The children Boris, Jacques-Christian, Sylvia, Veronica and Zita emerged from the marriage. He died in 1999 at the age of 87.

Professional background

After completing his degree, George Chapchal was employed as a private lecturer in orthopedics and director of the orthopedic department at the University of Utrecht . In 1959 he accepted the call to professor of orthopedics at the University of Saarbrücken . At the same time he was appointed director of the orthopedic clinic. In 1964, Chapchal changed to the functions of full professor of orthopedics and head of the orthopedic clinic at the University of Basel . In 1970 he moved to the Netherlands, where he took over the chair of orthopedics at the Catholic University of Nijmegen .

George Chapchal, one of the leading Dutch orthopedists in the 20th century, a member of numerous professional societies, wrote over 100 manual and specialist journal articles. Since 1962 he has acted as co-editor of the surgical practice - magazine for total surgery , published by the medical publisher W. Maudrich in Vienna .

Publications

author

• Orthopedic medical examination floor plan. Enke, Stuttgart, 1954
• Orthopedic. Dutch, Bijleveld, Utrecht, 1956
• Nederlands leerboek voor therapeutic gymnastics and massage. Dutch, Nederlands Genootschap voor Heilgymnastiek, Massage en Physiotechniek, Zutphen, 1959
• Orthopedic surgery and traumatology of the hip. Enke, Stuttgart, 1965
• Handleiding bij het orthopedic onderzoek. 4e dr., Dutch, Erven J. Bijleveld, Utrecht, 1966
• Synovectomy and arthroplasty in rheumatoid arthritis: 2nd International Symposium, January 27th-29th 1967 in Basle, Switzerland. G. Thieme, Stuttgart, 1967
• Injuries and diseases of the shoulder region. Thieme, Stuttgart [a. a.], 1984
• Orthopedics in children and adolescents: with 23 tables. 2., revised. Ed., Barth, Leipzig, 1990

editor

• Pelvic osteotomy, acetabular surgery. International symposium on January 30th and 31st, 1965 in Basel. G. Thieme, Stuttgart, 1965
• together with Gottfried Dominok : Nomina Osteoarthrologica . Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag , Leipzig 1980.

literature

• Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Volume 17. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 150.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 1, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , p. 536.
• LF Bakker: In memoriam prof.dr.G.Chapchal. in: Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde: NTVG: tevens orgaan der Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Geneeskunde. Volume 143, Number 32.Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1999, p. 1676.

Web links

• 1964–1970 George Chapchal (1911–1999) on the website of the Basel Medical Faculty; accessed on November 13, 2016