Marco Mumenthaler

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Marco Mumenthaler (born July 23, 1925 in Bern ; † January 30, 2016 ; resident in Langenthal ) was a Swiss neurologist , professor and rector of the University of Bern, as well as a specialist author .

Life

Mumenthaler grew up as the son of Swiss abroad in Milan , where he passed the high school diploma. He then studied medicine at the Universities of Zurich , Paris , Amsterdam and Basel and graduated in 1950 with the state examination in Basel ; in the same year he received his doctorate with Gian Töndury in Zurich . He trained as a specialist in neurology at the universities of Paris and Zurich . In 1960 he completed his habilitation in neurology with Fritz Lüthy at the University of Zurich . He worked as a senior physician at the Neurological University Clinic in Zurich and head of the research department at this clinic. 1961/1962 he was a visiting associate at the National Institutes of Health .

In 1962 Mumenthaler became director of the Neurological University Clinic in Bern and a full-time associate professor at the University of Bern . In 1966 he was promoted to full professor . In autumn 1990 Mumenthaler retired. From 1989 to 1991 he was rector of the University of Bern for two years . He then settled down as a specialist neurologist in Zurich and continued to work in university teaching and training for doctors. In 2012 he gave up these activities.

Mumenthaler's main teaching and research area was peripheral nerve and muscle diseases. He has published 370 papers in scientific journals, 39 publications in non-medical journals, and 87 monographs. There are also book chapters and translations as well as audiovisual productions. A neurology textbook was published in thirteen German-language editions and eleven translations. A textbook on the disease of peripheral nerves in nine German-language and four foreign editions, a neurological differential diagnosis in six German-language editions and in seven translations.

Awards and memberships awarded (selection)

  • President of the Swiss Neurological Society (1969–1971)
  • Honorary President of the Swiss Neurological Society (1971)
  • Elected to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and appointment as Senator (1978)
  • Member of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva (1989–1993)
  • Honorary member of the German Neurological Society (1995)
  • Corresponding member of the Société Française de Neurologie
  • Corresponding member of the Società Italiana di Neurologia
  • Corresponding member of the American Neurological Association
  • Honorary member of the German Society for the History of Nerve Healing
  • Member of the Swiss Association for Neuropathology
  • Member of the Royal British Society of Medicine
  • Honorary member of the Zurich Neurological Society
  • Founding and honorary member of the Swiss Headache Society

Fonts

  • Neurology , 1990
  • Neurologic Differential Diagnosis , 1992
  • Clinical examination and analysis of neurological syndromes , 1993
  • Basic knowledge of neurology , 1996
  • Neurology , 2002
  • Neurological differential diagnosis , 1997
  • Neurology Interactive 1.0, 1 CD-ROM , 1998
  • Pitfalls in Neurology , 2001
  • Kopfschmerz Interaktiv (together with Christof Daetwyler), CD-ROM and English-language online version: Headache interactive on-line , awarded the European “European Academic Software Award 2000”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Urs Boschung : Mumenthaler, Marco. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ a b Obituaries of Marco Mumenthaler , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Title entry of the dissertation , catalog of the library network Nebis , accessed on February 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF file), website of the Swiss Headache Society, 2013, accessed on February 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Renko Geffarth: Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Marco Mumenthaler , Leopoldina, 2013, accessed on February 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Mumenthaler, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss neurologist, university professor, rector of the University of Bern, specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2016