Heinrich Hunziker

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Heinrich Hunziker (born December 9, 1879 in Basel , † April 26, 1982 in Walchwil ) was a Swiss physician .

Life

Heinrich Hunziker, born on December 9, 1879 as the son of clerk Heinrich Hunziker senior and Friederike née Kuttler, completed a medical degree at the University of Basel after completing his school education . There he obtained the Swiss Federal Diploma in Medicine in 1903 and a year later a doctorate in all medicine.

Hunziker's first professional functions were as an assistant at the Bürgerspital in Basel in 1903 and in Solothurn in 1904 . Heinrich Hunziker then practiced as a doctor in Grenchen from 1905 , in Adliswil from 1910 and in Walchwil from 1926 to 1931.

Heinrich Hunziker, who was married twice, died on April 26, 1982 at the age of 102 in Walchwil.

Hunziker's importance as a physician lies primarily in the field of goiter research . In 1915 Heinrich Hunziker was the first to propose salt iodination as a preventive measure against endemic goiter, the effectiveness of which Dr. med. Otto Bayard was able to prove in 1918 in the communities of his practical area of ​​the Nikolaital by means of a salt that was iodized by a correctly dosed admixture of iodine potassium to table salt. On December 1, 1979, on the occasion of his hundredth birthday, Hunziker was awarded an honorary doctorate from the medical faculty of the University of Bern in recognition of his achievements for this particular research .

He also wrote novels, poems and specialist literature.

Medical works (selection)

  • About the immediate and later results of the artificial premature birth, introduced because of Beckenenge, Leipzig, 1904, dissertation University of Basel;
  • The goiter, an adaptation to low-iodine food: a priori thoughts on the nature and prevention of goiter, Bern, 1915;
  • The prophylaxis of the great thyroid gland, at the same time a piece of comparative climatology in Switzerland and a guide for systematic scientific research, Bern, 1924;
  • Breathing: miracle or secret ?: small research trip into new biological territory, Zug, 1977:

literature

  • City and Cantonal Library Zug;
  • Institute for Medical History at the University of Bern, estate ;
  • Franz Merke: History and Iconography of Endemic Goiter and Cretinism, Bern, 1971;
  • Biographical Lexicon of Deceased Swiss Vol. 8 , 1982, p. 78;

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personal data
SURNAME Hunziker, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1982
Place of death Walchwil