Heinrich Willi

Heinrich Willi (born March 3, 1900 in Chur ; † February 16, 1971 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pediatrician and professor of neonatology in Zurich.

Life

Willi was the fourth of nine children of the Graubünden contractor Josef Willi (1857–1939) and his wife Elisabeth von Vincenz.

After completing his medical degree at the University of Zurich , Willi became an assistant at the Zurich Institute for Pathological Anatomy and the Department of Internal Medicine at the Winterthur Hospital in 1925 . From 1928 on he worked under Guido Fanconi at the Children's Hospital Zurich . He received his doctorate in medicine in 1936. In the following year he succeeded Professor Bernheim-Karrer and became head of the “Rosenberg Infant Home”. In 1963 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1970 he retired.

Willi was married to Marie Louise Chuard (1904–1991), daughter of Joseph Chuard . They had three daughters Johanna, Monika and Regula and a son, Jürg Willi , who also studied medicine and psychiatry and became a couples therapist.

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Willi also pursued scientific research throughout his professional career. His most important contributions come from the field of neonatology . Together with Andrea Prader and Alexis Labhard , he described the Prader-Willi syndrome , which was later named after them , a hereditary disease that is associated with congenital muscle weakness, delayed mental development and an uncontrollable feeling of hunger with the resulting obesity.

Web links

• Heinrich Willi at whonamedit.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Willi (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 22, 2016.
2. ↑ Satuila Stierlin: I was burning with curiosity! Family stories of important family therapists. Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg 2001. ISBN 3-89670-209-2 ; Pages 164-190