Klaus Betke

Klaus Hermann Betke (born October 30, 1914 in Munich ; † June 26, 2011 in Graefelfing ) was a German pediatrician .

Life

Betke was established in 1940 at the University of Berlin with a thesis associations in genuine and symptomatic epilepsy to Dr. med. PhD. After the Second World War and his release from American captivity from August 1945, he worked in Würzburg with the professor of paediatrics Hans Rietschel and then in the Würzburg “Infant Home on Mönchberg” with Helmut Zoepffel. He completed his habilitation in 1953 with the text The human red blood pigment in the fetus and mature organism at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Here he became a member of the youth movement-reformed student association Deutsche Hochschulgilde Balmung . In 1962 he received a call to the Tübingen chair for paediatrics.

In 1967 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as the successor to Alfred Wiskott (1898–1978). From 1967 to 1983 he was full professor and director of the children's clinic, children's outpatient clinic and children's surgical clinic at Dr. von Haunersche Children's Hospital of the LMU Munich.

He was considered a personality in German paediatrics. In 1966 he became a member and in 1990 an honorary member of the Gynecology and Pediatrics Section of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1968 to 1971 he was a member of the Science Council. In 1981 he was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art . He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

Betke was a member of the German Society for Pediatrics, an honorary member since 1991. The German Society for Paediatrics honored Betke's pediatric work in 1983 with the Otto Heubner Prize, which is only awarded every three years . He was honored with the Bavarian Order of Merit . He was an honorary member of the University of Regensburg . He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum .

After Betke and Enno Kleihauer of them is described by Kleihauer-Betke test named for the quantitative detection of fetal red blood cells in maternal blood.

Fonts

Trace elements in the development of animals and humans Neglected elements in infant nutrition , Urban & Schwarzenberg 1975, ISBN 978-3-541-07331-3 together with Frank Bidlingmaier
Elementary pediatrics. With key to the object catalog , Thieme Stuttgart 1991 (4th edition), ISBN 978-3-13-504204-6 , together with Fritz Lampert, Klaus Riegel
Textbook of paediatrics , Thieme Stuttgart 1991 (6th edition), ISBN 978-3-13-358906-2 , together with Wilhelm Künzer, Jürgen Schaub

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Süddeutsche Zeitung from 2/3 July 2011, issue no.150, page 18
^ Wilhelm Künzer: Würzburg memories of the time from 1945 to 1962. In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 16, 1997, pp. 123-129; here: p. 126.

personal data
SURNAME	Betke, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Betke, Klaus Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	June 26, 2011
Place of death	Graefelfing

[SZ-1] Süddeutsche Zeitung from 2/3 July 2011, issue no.150, page 18

[2] Wilhelm Künzer: Würzburg memories of the time from 1945 to 1962. In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 16, 1997, pp. 123-129; here: p. 126.