Oskar Naegeli

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Oskar Naegeli (born February 25, 1885 in Ermatingen , Canton Thurgau , † November 19, 1959 in Freiburg in Üechtland ) was a Swiss dermatologist and chess player . The Naegeli syndrome was named after him.

Biographical background

Oskar Naegeli came from a family of doctors. His father Otto Naegeli (1843–1922) was a founder of manual therapy . His older brother of the same name Otto Naegeli (1871–1938) was professor of internal medicine and director of the Medical University Clinic in Zurich ; the Otto Naegeli Prize was named after him.

One of Oskar Naegeli's great nephews is the graffiti artist Harald Oskar Naegeli (the "Sprayer of Zurich").

Dermatologist

After studying at the universities of Geneva, Zurich, Munich and Heidelberg, Oskar Naegeli received his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1909. He worked in Freiburg im Breisgau at the Pathological Institute under Ludwig Aschoff and at the medical university polyclinic under Paul Oskar Morawitz , and later at the medical polyclinic in Zurich.

Finally in 1917 he became associate professor and chief physician in dermatology at the Insel University Hospital at the University of Bern . He had previously completed his habilitation in dermatology and venereology in Bern . Naegeli syndrome , named after him, is a hereditary skin disease that he first described in 1927. In 1941 Naegeli was dismissed from the University of Bern.

Chess player

Naegeli was also known as a chess player. In 1910 and 1936 he won the Swiss championship . In 1933 he was defeated in a competition by the Czechoslovak world class player Salo Flohr 2: 4. He participated in the strong tournaments in Bern in 1932 and Zurich in 1934.

He represented Switzerland at the Chess Olympiad in 1927, 1928, 1931 and 1935 and at the unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich in 1936 .

Works

  • About the more recent research in the field of physiology and pathology of the hypophysis cerebri , Freiburg im Breisgau 1911

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Heill: Otto Naegeli's handgrips (PDF; 326 kB), in: Schweizerische Ärztezeitung, 2005 (86), No. 36, p. 2101.
  2. ↑ personal communication from Harald Naegeli on June 3, 2006 in Düsseldorf
  3. ↑ faculty directory of the University of Bern 1528-1984. Entry Naegeli, Oskar Emmanuel Viktor. In: Supplementary volume on the university history of Bern. 1984, p. 1035 , accessed August 4, 2017 .
  4. ^ P, Feenstra Kuiper: Hundred years of chess duels. The most important chess battles 1851-1950 , Verlag Walter ten Have, Amsterdam 1967
  5. ↑ Árpád Földeák: Chess Olympiads , Verlag Walter ten Have, Amsterdam 1971
  6. ↑ Kurt Richter : Schach-Olympia München 1936 , two parts in one volume, reprint (Zurich 1997) of the editions Berlin and Leipzig 1936

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SURNAME Naegeli, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss chess player, chief doctor for dermatology at the University Clinic Bern
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermatingen
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1959
Place of death Freiburg in Üechtland