Horst Bickel

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Horst Bickel (born June 28, 1918 in Hamburg ; † December 1, 2000 in Baabe ( Rügen )) was a German pediatrician .

Life

As assistant to the Swiss pediatrician Guido Fanconi , together with him in 1949, he first described a rare syndrome with the combination of a pathologically increased storage of starch ( glycogen ) in the liver and kidneys ( glycogenosis ), an impaired function of the collecting tubes in the kidney and a disturbed one Utilization of the sugar molecules glucose and galactose . The autosomal - recessive inherited disorder was later known as Fanconi-Bickel syndrome called.

In the 1950s, Horst Bickel largely developed a diet for the treatment of the congenital metabolic disease phenylketonuria , thereby proving that the disease can be treated by reducing the causative amino acid phenylalanine . After Robert Guthrie had developed a screening method for this most common congenital metabolic disease in 1963 , it was thanks to him that this screening became the standard for all newborns in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s. From 1967 to 1987 Horst Bickel was full professor of paediatrics at Heidelberg University . In 1973 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Honor

  • Ceremony for the 100th birthday of the former head of the children's clinic at the Heidelberg University Hospital, Horst Bickel: A man who saved tens of thousands of children from serious brain damage, Heidelberg University June 28, 2018, with a speech by Annette Grüters-Kieslich .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Osten : Horst Bickel and the way to the therapy of phenylketonuria , in: Georg F. Hoffmann, Wolfgang U. Eckart , Philipp Osten (eds.): Developments and perspectives in child and adolescent medicine, 150 years of pediatrics in Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Hospital 2015, pp. 139–169 online resource
  2. ↑ Celebration of Horst Bickel's 100th birthday , accessed on June 29, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Bickel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2000
Place of death Baabe