Guido Fanconi
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 | |
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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 |