Heinrich Brugger
Heinrich Brügger (born December 3, 1895 in Ascheberg , Westphalia, † November 4, 1976 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a German medic.
Life
Brügger came from a long-established Catholic farming family. He studied medicine at the universities of Münster, Gießen, Tübingen and Freiburg, where he passed the medical state examination in 1920. In the following five years he worked as an assistant at various hospitals in Hamburg. In 1928 he took over as director of the children's sanatorium in Wangen im Allgäu. During this time he completed his habilitation in 1941 at the University of Cologne. In 1949 he was appointed honorary professor at the State University of Tübingen.
He was chairman of the South German Tuberculosis Society and a member of the Central Committee for Combating Tuberculosis. He is the author of the textbook The Tuberculosis of the Child . In 1952 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1966 the Great Cross of Merit. In 1974 he received the Paracelsus Medal of the German medical profession. The school for sick people at the specialist clinics in Wangen bears his name.
His daughter, the teacher and poet Margret Brügger, who ran the sanatorium school ( Heinrich Brügger School ) at her father's clinic from 1970 to 1972 , was born in Emden / East Friesland in July 1927.
literature
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : the German Who's Who. - Berlin: Arani, 1955
Web links
- German Central Committee for Combating Tuberculosis (DZK) [1]
Individual evidence
- ^ Margret Brügger: Venetian masks. Window into another reality, Assunta, Santa Maria Calanca 2001, ISBN 3-9521290-9-9 , pp. 99-101, here: p. 100.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brugger, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ascheberg , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1976 |
| Place of death | Wangen in the Allgäu |