Jürgen Spranger

Jürgen Walter Spranger (born January 1, 1931 in Greifswald ) is a German pediatrician and former medical director of the children's clinic at the Mainz University Medical Center . He is the author of various standard works and is considered to be one of the pioneers of medical genetics in Germany with a particular focus on forms of short stature .

Life

Spranger first came into contact with paediatrics in the immediate post-war period from 1945 when his father reopened his pediatric practice in Baden-Baden .

He completed his medical studies at the University of Tübingen , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Freiburg . In 1956 he graduated with honors.

Spranger then worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York until 1957 . This was followed by his specialist training from 1959 to 1963 at the children's clinic of the Heidelberg University Hospital . He then moved to the pediatric department at the University Hospital in Kiel , where he was appointed senior physician in 1968 . In 1965 Spranger was a research fellow at the Institute for Human Genetics in Münster, and from 1968 to 1969 he was also a research assistant at the Children's Clinic at Harvard University in Boston . In 1970 and 1971 he continued to hold a visiting professorship at the University of Madison Children's Hospital in Wisconsin .

In 1974 Spranger moved from Kiel to Mainz University Medical Center , where he was the medical director of the children's clinic until 1998 . From 1975 he was editor-in-chief and editor of the peer-reviewed publication European Journal of Pediatrics . In 1988 Spranger co-founded the German Academy for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine , the umbrella organization of the pediatric societies in Germany. He acted as its spokesman from 1990 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1996 he was Secretary General of the Academy.

In 1999 Spranger was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

Today Spranger is involved as professor emeritus at the Clinic for General Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the Freiburg University Medical Center in the Department of Pediatric Genetics .

reception

Spranger is honorary chairman of the Federal Association of Small People and Their Families eV In 1987 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In 1998 he was elected honorary member of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine .

Various short stature forms are named after Spranger as the first to describe it, including the Koslowski-Maroteaux-Spranger syndrome , the Spranger-Wiedemann syndrome and a variant of metaphyseal dysplasia .

Spranger and the Kiel pediatrician Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann have to be described as “protagonists of pediatric clinical genetics in Germany,” said human geneticist Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach in a laudation to John Marius Opitz in 2005 .

Fonts

• with Georg F. Hoffmann, Michael J. Lentze, Fred Zepp, Franz-Josef Schulte (Eds.): Pediatrics: Basics and Practice , Springer , 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-41865-5
• with Paula Brill, Andrea Superti-Furga, Sheila Unger, Gen Nishimura: Bone Dysplasias: An Atlas of Genetic Disorders of Skeletal Development , Oxford University Press , 4th ed. 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-062665-5
• with Reinhard Schumacher, Laurie H. Seaver: Fetal Radiology: A Diagnostic Atlas , Springer , 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-03559-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen W. Spranger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Member entry of Jürgen W. Spranger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcements of the ÖGKJ. In: Monthly Pediatrics. 165, 2017, p. 94, doi: 10.1007 / s00112-017-0241-0 .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Greta Beighton, Peter Beighton: The Man Behind the Syndrome. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4471-1415-4 , p. 229 ( limited preview in Google book search).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Spranger: Basic features of pediatrics in West Germany. (PDF) In: Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde 164. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2016, pp. 4–6 , accessed on April 16, 2017 ( doi: 10.1007 / s00112-017-0241-0 ). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Prof. Dr. (em.) Jürgen Spranger - author profile and works. In: beck-shop.de. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
5. ^ Literature by and about Jürgen Spranger in the catalog of the German National Library .
6. ↑ Kathrin Jackel-Neusser: 25th anniversary of the DAKJ - history of the origins of the German Academy for Child and Adolescent Medicine eV (DAKJ). In: dakj.de. 2015, accessed April 16, 2017 . 
7. ^ Team - University Medical Center Freiburg. In: uniklinik-freiburg.de. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
8. ^ DGKJ honorary members. In: dgkj.de. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Whonamedit - Juergen W. Spranger. In: whonamedit.com. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
10. ^ Winner of the Medal of Honor - Professor John Marius Opitz. In: gfhev.de. 2005, accessed April 16, 2017 .