Martha Friedl-Meyer

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Martha Friedl-Meyer, 1950s

Martha Friedl-Meyer (born June 12, 1891 in Moscow as Martha Meyer; died June 22, 1962 in Zurich ) was a Swiss surgeon and from 1945 to 1961 chief physician at the Swiss nursing school and women's hospital in Zurich.

education

Martha Friedl-Meyer was born in Moscow as the daughter of a German-Russian and a Swiss woman. She attended the girls' high school in Moscow and studied medicine at the Moscow Women's University. During the First World War , she worked as a surgical nurse at the Moscow War Hospital in 1915/16, where she got to know nursing , which later came in handy as the head of the Swiss Nursing School.

Professional career

After completing her medical degree, she worked from 1916 to 1921 as an assistant at the Moscow Surgical Clinic. Her family fled to Switzerland in the wake of the Russian Revolution in 1919. Martha Meyer followed in 1922 and began to work as an assistant at the surgical clinic at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital. The clinic director Professor Paul Clairmont valued and encouraged the talented young surgeon. During this time she met the Austrian radiologist Dr. Ernst Friedl, whom she married in 1932. Although she had passed all the medical exams in Moscow, she had to complete another four semesters at the University of Zurich and passed the state examination in 1933 . Then she switched to the “Swiss School of Nursing with Women's Hospital” in Zurich as a surgeon. When the nursing school was given its own surgical department in 1936, Martha Friedl-Meyer became its director and was the only chief surgeon in Switzerland at the time. In 1945 she succeeded Dr. Anna Baltischwiler as chief physician and head of the hospital and managed it until her serious illness at the end of 1961. In her obituary, she was described as a clear thinker, a woman with great organizational talent and equally great enthusiasm and natural authority. The standard work "Textbook of surgery for nursing staff" published in 1943 had eight editions by 1976.

Publications (selection)

  • with Paul Clairmont. Peritoneum adhesions. In: Archives for Clinical Surgery; Vol. 157 (1929), pp. 474-524.
  • About gastric syphilis with a casuistic contribution. Zurich 1933.
  • Artificial vaginal formation using Thiersch's transplantation method (according to Kirschner-Wagner, Henkel modification). In: German journal for surgery; Vol. 244, Issue 4/5 (1935), pp. 379-386.
  • Casuistic contribution to the tumor-forming, ulcerative, stenosing inflammation of the lower ileum (ileum terminals). In: Swiss Medical Weekly; Vol. 66, No 21 (1936), pp. 508-517.
  • Surgery textbook for nursing staff. Zurich 1943. (8th edition 1976).
  • with Anna Suter-Ernst. Contribution to endometriosis of the small and large intestines. In: Swiss Medical Weekly; Vol. 75, No 16 (1945), pp. 338-349.
  • For the treatment of abdominal actinomycosis. In: Swiss Medical Weekly; Vol. 82, No 9 (1952), pp. 226-231.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 25, 1962, p. A11.
  2. ^ Farewell to Martha Friedl-Meyer. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 28, 1962, p. B13.
  3. ↑ Swiss Medical Weekly, Volume 92, 1962, No. 47, p. 1508.
personal data
SURNAME Friedl-Meyer, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1962
Place of death Zurich