Gertrud Hurler

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Gertrud Hurler (born September 1, 1889 in Taberwiese as Gertrud Zach; † 1965 ) was a German pediatrician .

Life

The daughter of a doctor studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from the winter semester 1911/12 to the winter semester 1915/16 . She was licensed as a doctor in 1917 . She trained in pediatrics at the Hauner Children's Hospital run by Meinhard von Pfaundler . From 1919 to 1945 she worked as a resident pediatrician in the Neuhausen district of Munich . Hurler was a member of the NSDAP and the National Socialist Medical Association .

The Hurler syndrome (also Hurler disease, Hurler disease), which she described in 1919, was named after her. Today the Hurler syndrome is called Hurler-Pfaundler syndrome and classified as type IH of mucopolysaccharidosis .

In 1914 she married the veterinarian Konrad Hurler and they had two children.

Fonts

  • About one type of multiple variations, predominantly on the skeletal system. In: Journal of Pediatrics. Vol. 24, issue 5/6 (January 20, 1920), pp. 220-234, doi: 10.1007 / BF02222956 .

literature

  • Enrique Chaves-Carballo: Gertrud Hurler. In: Stephen Ashwal (Ed.): The Founders of Child Neurology. Norman, San Francisco 1990, pp. 521-523 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hurler, Gertrud (née Zach). In: Documentation: Doctors in the Empire. Website of the Free University of Berlin , accessed on April 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ Person and student directories , website of the university library of the LMU Munich, accessed on April 12, 2018.
  3. ^ A b c Gregory M. Pastores: Lysosomal Storage Disorders: Principles and Practice. World Scientific, Singapore 2010, ISBN 978-981-4271-31-8 , p. 14 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b c Johanna Bleker , Sabine Schleiermacher: Doctors from the Empire: Life courses of a generation. Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 2000, ISBN 3-89271-898-9 , p. 262.
  5. ^ MPS I (Hurler, Hurler-Scheie, Scheie syndrome) , National MPS Society website, accessed April 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hurler, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zach, Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Taberwiese
DATE OF DEATH 1965