Otto Gsell

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Robert Otto Gsell , also Otto Gsell-Dietschi (born March 30, 1902 in St. Gallen ; † November 26, 1990 in Arizona ), was a Swiss internist and university professor and director of the Medical Polyclinic at the University of Basel. He mainly dealt with infectious diseases and described the cystic median necrosis Erdheim-Gsell , which was later named after him .

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Otto Gsell was the son of the doctor Karl Otto Gsell (Otto Gsell-Bärlocher, 1868-1944) and his wife Irma Sabina Bärlocher (* 1872). He studied medicine at the universities of Geneva , Kiel , Paris , Vienna and Zurich . In 1926 he received his doctorate with the writing Neuere Camphorpräparate with his own research on Coramin . He worked as an assistant at the University of Basel and then at the University Hospital Zurich , where he received a senior physician position. From 1936 Otto Gsell was chief physician in the department for internal medicine at the Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen and from 1953 to 1971 professor for internal medicine at the University of Basel.

Otto Gsell described 1928 later for him and Jakob Erdheim named cystic medial necrosis Erdheim Gsell . In 1952 Gsell was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize for his research on leptospiroses . The swineherd disease , one by Leptospira pomona leptospirosis caused is also referred to as "Bouget-Gsell disease". From 1979 to 1982 Gsell headed the Central Ethics Committee (ZEK) of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS). Otto Gsell held honorary doctorates from the University of Göttingen and the University of Turku .

His first marriage was to Luise Klara Dietschi, and his second marriage to Doris Blauenstein.

Fonts (selection)

  • Newer camphor preparations with own research on coramin. Schwabe, Zurich 1926. (Dissertation)
  • Abortive poliomyelitis . Thieme, Leipzig 1938.
  • with Adolf Hottinger: hunger pangs, hunger edema, hunger tuberculosis: hist., clinical, pathophysiol. u. pathol.-anatom. Studies and Observations on former inmates from concentration camps. Schwabe, Basel 1948.
  • Leptospiroses . Huber, Bern 1952.
  • Tobacco Smoking and Illness. Neuland, Hamburg 1959.
  • with Richard Bieling: The virus diseases of humans . JA Barth, Leipzig, 5th edition 1962. (6th edition 1964)
  • as editor: Diseases of the Seventy Years Old. Hubert, Bern 1964.
  • as Otto Gsell-Dietschi (Ed.): On the history of St. Gallen families: Gsell, Baerlocher, Naeff, Lutz. Self-published, St. Gallen 1984.
  • with W. Mohr: Infectious Diseases. Springer, Berlin. 1967, 1972.
  • Differential diagnosis of acute pulmonary infiltrates. Thieme, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-13-174301-8 . (2nd edition 1986, ISBN 3-13-174302-6 .)
  • als (Ed.): Clinical Virology. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-541-12201-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c matriculation edition of the University of Zurich: Gsell (Robert) Otto , accessed on April 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Marcel Benoist Foundation: Gsell , accessed on April 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ Martin G. Lewis: Idiopathic Medionecrosis causing aortic incompetence In: British medical journal. Volume 1, Number 5448, June 1965, pp. 1478, ISSN  0007-1447 . PMID 14288088 . PMC 2166656 (free full text).
  4. ↑ Pigkeeper Disease. In: Peter Reuter: Springer Lexicon Medicine. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20412-1 , p. 1948.
  5. ↑ Michel Vallotton: The ZEK: credible, efficient and flexible. In: SAMSbulletin. No. 3, August 2004.
  6. ^ Peter Müller: Otto Gsell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Gsell, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gsell, Robert Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss internist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1990
Place of death Arizona