Guido Fanconi

Guido Fanconi, ca.1959

Guido Fanconi (born January 1, 1892 in Poschiavo ( Graubünden ), † October 10, 1979 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pediatrician. In 1927 he first described the Fanconi anemia named after him , an extremely rare and often fatal, genetic disease. Also the Fanconi syndrome as well as the Fanconi-Bickel syndrome goes back to him.

Life

Fanconi studied medicine in Lausanne , Bern and Zurich . In 1919 he received his doctorate in Zurich (five cases of congenital intestinal obstruction). From 1920 to 1926 he qualified as a pediatrician under Emil Feer (1864–1955) at the Children's Hospital in Zurich . The pediatric apprenticeship years were interrupted by short study stays in Halle with Emil Abderhalden and in Vienna with Klemens Freiherr Pirquet von Cesenatico . In 1926 he completed his habilitation in Zurich with the thesis Clinical and Serological Contributions to the Scarlet Fever Problem in Pediatrics . In 1929 he succeeded Feer as director of the children's hospital in Zurich and professor of pediatrics at the University of Zurich . There he worked until his retirement in 1962. In 1940 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1973 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Act

Fanconi is considered one of the founders of modern pediatrics and introduced biochemical and physiological research methods to research clinical problems. He first used pectin as a remedy for diarrhea . From 1947 to 1950 he was President of the International Pediatric Association (IPA), from 1951 to 1967 its General Secretary. In 1945 he founded the journal Acta Helvetica Paediatrica .

literature

Roman Bühler: Guido Fanconi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 15, 2004 , accessed December 25, 2019 .
Iris Ritzmann : Fanconi, Guido. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 392.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Fanconi, Guido , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 114. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

Web links

Member entry of Guido Fanconi at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 25, 2019.

Fanconi biography in Nature Reviews Cancer

Guido Fanconi at whonamedit.com

Literature by and about Guido Fanconi in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Fanconi, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poschiavo
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1979
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Wolfgang U. Eckart : Fanconi, Guido , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 114. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .