Louis Schittly

Louis Schittly

Louis Schittly (* 1938 in Bernwiller ) is a French doctor from Sundgau in Alsace . He is co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders).

Life

Louis Schittly grew up on his parents' farm in Bernwiller. In 1969 he went to Biafra as a young doctor on behalf of the Red Cross . The horrors of war there induced him, together with Bernard Kouchner and others, to found Médecins Sans Frontières in 1971. Under the leadership of the Order of Malta , he then traveled to Vietnam on a medical mission , where he witnessed the enormous " collateral damage " of American warfare. The fighting in connection with the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in 1980 led him to advocate locally for medical care of the Afghan rural population. He then practiced as a doctor in his home region until 1996. Together with Bernard Kouchner, he went to South Sudan in 1996 and became the physician in charge of the Busch Hospital in Boma, specifically responsible for the local organization and the recruitment of emigrated specialists. Schittly now lives with his family in Bernwiller.

Works

• L'homme qui voulait voir la guerre de près. Médecin au Biafra, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sud-Soudan. Paris: Arthaud, 2011, ISBN 978-2-08-125841-9
• Fyirr et Nadala. Conte bilingue [French / Alsatian]. Mulhouse: Editions du Rhin, 1996, ISBN 2-86339-115-1
• Dr Näsdla ou Un automne sans colchiques. Novel à lire à voix haute. Editions Hortus Sundgauviae, 1976, ISBN 2-86339-011-2 , new edition: Strasbourg: Editions La Nuée Bleue / DNA, 2013, ISBN 978-2-7165-0810-0 ; German translation: Näsdla or an autumn without autumn crops. Novel to read in a loud voice. Hamburg: tredition, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7482-1790-9
• La raison lunatique [with René Ehni]. Presses d'Aujourd'hui, 1978
• René Ehni, Louis Schittly: The wedding of Gudrun . 1st edition. Dianus-Trikont-Verlag , Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88167-052-1 (original title: Le mariage de Gudrun .).