Hans H. Walser

Hans Huldrych Walser (born June 16, 1920 in Peggau ; legal resident in Zurich , Oberdorf and Teufen ) is a Swiss medical historian .

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Walser studied medicine at the University of Zurich from 1939 to 1946 . He trained as a specialist in psychiatry and opened a predominantly psychoanalytical practice in Zurich in 1957 . In the same year he received a doctorate from Hans Fischer at the University of Zurich with a medical-historical work. med. doctorate , which he had created under the direction of Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht . In the summer semester 1968 Walser received his habilitation at the University of Zurich and in the summer semester 1974 he was appointed adjunct professor for the history of medicine .

He has published numerous articles on the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Switzerland. From 1974 to 1980 he was editor of Gesnerus magazine .

Fonts (selection)

• For the introduction of aether anesthesia in the German-speaking area in 1847 (= publications of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences. Vol. 21). Sauerländer, Aarau 1958 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1957).
• August Forel : Letters / Correspondance 1864–1927. Edited by Hans H. Walser. Huber, Bern 1968 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1968).
• One hundred years of the Rheinau Clinic, 1867–1967. Scientific psychiatry and practical insane care in Switzerland using the example of a large sanatorium and nursing home (= publications of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences. Vol. 24). Sauerländer, Aarau 1970.

literature

• Huldrych M. Koelbing : Hans H. Walser on his 60th birthday. In: Gesnerus . Vol. 37 (1980), H. 1/2, p. 1 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Thomas Brassel: The lecturers at the University of Zurich: summer semester 1933 to winter semester 1982/83. In: The University of Zurich 1933–1983: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Zurich. University of Zurich, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-85823-086-3 , pp. 665–748, here p. 700 ( PDF , 16.5 MB, accessed on May 2, 2016).
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online . Retrieved May 2, 2016.