Gustav Huguenin
Gustav Huguenin (born July 21, 1840 in Krauchthal ; † February 6, 1920 in Zurich ; resident in Zell and Zurich) was a Swiss psychiatrist , neurologist , internist and entomologist .
Life
The son of a doctor attended secondary school in Winterthur and studied natural sciences and medicine at the universities of Zurich , Prague and Vienna . His teachers were in Zurich Wilhelm Griesinger , Anton Biermer , Bernhard von Gudden , Theodor Billroth and Eduard von Rindfleisch and in Vienna Theodor Meynert , Moriz Benedikt and Johann von Oppolzer . Huguenin received his doctorate in Zurich in 1865.
In the summer semester of 1867 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich, where in the winter semester of 1872/73 he was appointed full professor of psychiatry and director of the Burghölzli insane asylum as successor to Gudden . From the winter semester 1874/75 to the summer semester 1883 he was professor of internal medicine and director of the medical clinic at the cantonal hospital in Zurich.
In 1883 he resigned because of a tubercular illness . But he continued to practice, u. a. in Weissenburg in the Simmental , but also in Algeria, Corsica and Italy, and dedicated himself to research into tuberculosis. Huguenin also dealt with entomology and left a large collection to the Entomological Museum of the ETH Zurich .
Fonts (selection)
- Via the trachoma glands or lymph follicles of the conjunctiva. Printed by D. Grossmann, Meilen 1865 ( dissertation , University of Zurich).
- Pathological Contributions. J. Schabelitz, Zurich 1868 (contains: The marantine sinus thrombosis and the pathology of acute exanthema ; habilitation thesis , University of Zurich).
- General Pathology of Diseases of the Nervous System: A Textbook for Physicians and Students. Part 1: Anatomical Introduction. Zürcher & Furrer, Zurich 1873 (no further parts published).
- Acute and chronic inflammation of the brain and its skins. In: Hugo von Ziemssen (Hrsg.): Handbook of special pathology and therapy. Vol. XI, 1. Vogel, Leipzig 1876, pp. 329-756.
literature
- Heinz Lätsch: The internist Gustav Huguenin (1840–1920) (= Zurich medical history treatises. New series, vol. 221). Juris, Zurich 1991.
- Heinrich Zangger , Anton von Schulthess: Prof. Dr. Gustav Huguenin 1840–1920. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . Vol. 101 (1920), pp. 32-35 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Huguenin, Gustav. In: The University of Zurich 1833–1933 and its predecessors: Festschrift for the celebration of the century. Verlag der Erziehungsdirektion, Zurich 1938, p. 968 ( online ; PDF; 9.6 MB).
- ↑ a b c Zangger / Schulthess (see literature), p. 32.
- ↑ Zangger / Schulthess (see literature) speak of 1871.
- ↑ Zangger / Schulthess (see literature), p. 33.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huguenin, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss psychiatrist, neurologist, internist and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krauchthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1920 |
| Place of death | Zurich |