Hans von Meyenburg

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Hans von Meyenburg, around 1934

Hans Walter Friedrich Heinrich von Meyenburg (also Hanns von Meyenburg; born June 6, 1887 in Dresden ; † November 6, 1971 ) was a Swiss pathologist and university professor.

Life

Hans von Meyenburg was born as the son of the sculptor Victor von Meyenburg (1834-1893) and his wife Konstanze. von May was born into a noble family in Schaffhausen . His father lived in Dresden since 1869. Hanns von Meyenburg began studying medicine at the University of Zurich . In 1907 he became a member of the Corps Tigurinia Zurich . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he became active in the Corps Franconia Munich in 1908 . Finally he went to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1912 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He first worked in surgery with Ferdinand Sauerbruch , but turned to pathology in Munich and Berlin, for which he qualified as a professor in 1918 with Otto Busse in Zurich . In the following year he became an associate professor at the University of Lausanne , which made him professor in 1921 . In 1925 he followed the call of the University of Zurich. From 1932 to 1934 he was dean of the medical faculty and then from 1934 to 1936 rector of the University of Zurich. In 1953 he retired . The Von Meyenburg complex is named after him.

Two of his children, Hans von Meyenburg (1915–1995) and Gertrud Frisch-von Meyenburg (1916–2009), became architects. Gertrud von Meyenburg was married to the architect and writer Max Frisch from 1943 to 1959 .

Works

  • About the cyst liver . Fischer, Jena 1918.
  • Form and function: Speech by the Rector, given at the 101st foundation ceremony of the University of Zurich on April 28, 1934. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1934.
  • Medical studies and university: The rector's speech, given at the 102nd foundation ceremony of the University of Zurich on April 29, 1934. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1935.
  • Brief instructions for making sections. Self-published, Zurich 1940.
  • The Schipf in Herrliberg: Chronicle of a country estate on Lake Zurich. Report House, Zurich 1957.
  • The Schaffhausen doctor and postmaster Johann Jakob v. Meyenburg, 1665–1717, and his relationships with Counts Montfort and Schönborn. A cultural image based on letters. Schaffhauser Nachrichten, Schaffhausen 1960.

See also

literature

  • Erwin Uehlinger : In memoriam Hanns von Meyenburg. Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology, Vol. 56 (1972), pp. 697-701, PMID 4130912 .

Web links

Commons : Hans von Meyenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 85/231; 108/786.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Case studies on the question of arthritis deformans juvenilis idiopathica .
personal data
SURNAME Meyenburg, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyenburg, Hans Walter Friedrich Heinrich von (full name); Meyenburg, Hanns von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1971