Heinrich Zangger

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Heinrich Zangger

Heinrich Zangger (born December 6, 1874 in Bubikon , † March 15, 1957 in Zurich ) was a Swiss toxicologist and coroner.

Zangger was the son of a farmer and studied medicine at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate on February 19, 1902 ( histological and staining experience in general and specifically about the possibility of a morphological representation of cell anesthesia [vital staining] ). Already on April 15 of the same year he was appointed professor for anatomy and special physiology of domestic animals at the veterinary medicine faculty (animal hospital) of the University of Zurich.

On September 7, 1905, he was appointed professor of forensic medicine at the University of Zurich with effect from April 15, 1906. From March 21, 1912 to his retirement on October 15, 1941, Zangger was full professor and director of the newly founded Institute for Forensic Medicine Medicine.

In 1932 he was elected to the International Committee of the Red Cross, to which he was an active member until 1947, later as an honorary member. He was involved in the drafting of the Zurich Criminal Code (ZGB) and the Liability Act and was also active in environmental protection and disaster medicine.

In 1924 he received the Marcel Benoist Prize [...] for his work 'Poisonings', published in 1924. With this work, Professor Zangger was the first to point out the manifold new poisoning dangers associated with the development of technology, and to give valuable guidelines for combating them, as well as for diagnosing the symptoms of illness caused by poisoning and thus for improving therapy and prophylaxis.

The estate of Heinrich Zangger is in the manuscript department of the Zurich Central Library .

In 1906 he married Mathilde Mayenfisch. He found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery . His tomb was lifted.

Acquaintance and correspondence with Albert Einstein

Zangger had known Albert Einstein since 1906 , whom he had asked for advice on a patent matter that year. Up until 1933 there was a lively correspondence between Zangger and Einstein, the last letter from Einstein dates from 1947. Zangger was instrumental in ensuring that Einstein was appointed professor of theoretical physics at ETH Zurich in 1912 by addressing Federal Councilor Ludwig Forrer who was not responsible, but was supposed to contact his colleague from the Interior Department. He asserted that theoretical physicists could get by without a laboratory and assistants and thus cost less money, and he also attested to him from his own judgment that he would be a good teacher. Zangger had attended Einstein's weekly lectures at the University of Zurich when he was lecturer in 1909 and then associate professor before he went to Prague in 1911. The Polytechnic in Zurich had recently been upgraded to a full university with the right to award doctorates (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). At that time Einstein was negotiating a professorship in Utrecht and was able to exert pressure.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein , Suhrkamp 1993
  • Christof Rieber: Albert Einstein. Biography of a nonconformist. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1281-7

Fonts

  • Robert Schulmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ruth Jörg : Seelenverwandte. The correspondence between Albert Einstein and Heinrich Zangger (1910–1947). Verl. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03-823784-6 .
  • with Ferdinand Flury , Max Cloetta , Erich Hübener : Textbook of toxicology for study and practice. Berlin, Springer 1928.
  • Poisonings , Leipzig, Thieme 1924

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2 The replacement of the Berlin chair for forensic medicine. (PDF; 183 kB) Retrieved February 3, 2011 .
  2. ^ Heinrich Zangger 1874–1957. Retrieved February 3, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Zangger, Heinrich (1874–1957). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 3, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zb.unizh.ch  
  4. ^ Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, entry Heinrich Zangger
  5. ↑ 1924 Heinrich Zangger. Retrieved February 3, 2011 .
  6. ^ Fölsing, Albert Einstein, Suhrkamp 1993, p. 330
  7. ^ A review of the volume: Dieter Hoffmann: A Plaggeist of touching goodness, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, September 9, 2012, page 57
personal data
SURNAME Zangger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss toxicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bubikon
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1957
Place of death Zurich