Paul Benedikt Jucker-Staehelin

Family grave: Stähelin-Clemens-Stockmayer-Kracht-Kober-Pfeifer-Schwabe-Jucker in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Jucker-Staehelin family grave in Wolfgottesacker , Basel

Paul Benedikt Jucker-Staehelin (born February 13, 1907 in Basel ; † January 17, 1992 there ) was a Swiss geriatrician .

biography

He was particularly influenced by Max Askanazy , the head of pathological anatomy in Geneva. In 1939 Jucker wrote his dissertation on arteriosclerosis . In the same year he married Ruth Staehelin, daughter of the professor of internal medicine Rudolf Staehelin . In 1945 he became chief physician at the military sanatorium in Davos . In 1955/1956, Jucker-Staehelin was elected as the successor to Adolf Lukas Vischer as chief physician of the old people's homes at the Basel Citizens' Hospital and remained so until 1976. With Jakob Oeri-Hoffmann he founded the School for Practical Nursing , whose concept is one of the most important pillars of the todayOne of the elderly care .

Jucker-Staehelin was the cousin of the Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hannes B. Staehelin . History of geriatrics in Basel. University of Basel . pdf
2. ↑ Hannes B. Staehelin: Appreciation of Dr. Med. Paul Jucker as a doctor. In: In memory of Paul Benedikt Jucker-Staehelin. Basel 1992. pp. 12-13.

Fonts

• Clinic of Apoplexy. In: Swiss Medical Weekly (today: Swiss Medical Weekly ), No. 89. pp. 227–231, 1959.
• With Hermann Kapp and Ernst Albert Zeller : About the digestibility of potato bread . Medical University Clinic in Basel. Journal for Vitamin Research , Supplement No. 3. Huber , Bern 1943.
• The determination of blood sugar in practice: Preservation of the sugar in the capillary blood for sending to the chemical laboratory. In: Swiss Medical Weekly , Volume 72, No. 46.Schwabe , Basel 1942.
• Diagnosis of primary malignant tumors of the pericardium . In: Journal of Clinical Medicine , No. 139. P. 208, 1941.
• About the necrosis in the arteriosclerotic plate and its relationship with the atheroma . Medical dissertation under Max Askanazy . Geneva 1935. Published in: Virchows Archive for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology , Volume 295. pp. 301–333. Wuerzburg 1935.

literature

• Short biographies on the occasion of Jucker’s election as chief physician for old people’s homes Basel: in National-Zeitung , April 4, 1956 (with photo) and in Basler Volksblatt , April 5, 1956.
• Short biography with photo on the occasion of Jucker's retirement in the National-Zeitung on January 21, 1977.
• Gustaf Adolf Wanner : Paul Jucker for the seventieth. In: Basler Zeitung , February 12, 1977.
• In memory of Paul Benedikt Jucker-Staehelin . Obituaries. Basel 1992.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Benedikt Jucker-Staehelin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dossier in the State Archives Basel-Stadt .