Philipp Biedert

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Philipp Biedert, pioneer of pediatrics in Germany

Philipp Biedert (born November 25, 1847 in Niederflörsheim , † September 20, 1916 in Hagenau in Alsace ) was a German pediatrician and professor .

Life

Biedert studied medicine in Giessen , Würzburg and Vienna . From 1865 he was a member of the Corps Hassia .

After completing his studies, he initially worked as a volunteer for Alexander Pagenstecher's eye clinic in Wiesbaden . In the subject of his dissertation, Investigations into the Chemical Differences between Human and Cow Milk, in 1869, he showed his interest in infant nutrition. In the war of 1870/71 he took part as a volunteer doctor and then settled as a military doctor in Worms. Here, among other things, he continued his research on milk as a child nutrition. In 1877 he moved to the Bürgerspital in Hagenau in Alsace as a senior physician, where he worked the following year as a district doctor, from 1889 as a medical adviser and from 1895 as a professor. In 1883 he was a founding member and board member of the German Society for Paediatrics - until today the scientific specialist society of German paediatricians. He created the standard work Das Kind, its physical and mental care from birth to maturity and was the inventor of Biedert's creamy mix . He received numerous awards for his activities, which earned him the honorary title of "Father of Pediatrics"; Among other things, he became the Imperial Secret Chief Medical Officer and received a plaque in Worms .

Biedert's cream mix

Children who did not tolerate cow's milk as a substitute for mother's milk were given Biedert's cream mixture , named after Biedert , for the production of which one carefully skimmed about 1/16 of fresh milk after standing in a cool place for two hours, mixed it with boiled water, boiled it and then added it added some milk sugar and gradually increasing quantities of pure milk. It was one of the first ready- to-use baby foods on the market.

Works

  • The research institute f. Nutrition, a scientific, state and humanitarian necessity (Munich 1899)
  • Child mortality and socio-economic conditions (Stuttgart 1897)
  • Textbook of teething troubles (new version of Vogel's textbook in 8th edition 1887; 11th edition 1894)
  • Dietetics and cookbook for digestive patients (together with his assistant Langermann, Stuttgart 1895)
  • The Pure Cultures in the Reich Health Office (Berlin 1884)
  • Chronic pneumonia, phthisis and miliary tuberculosis (together with Sigel, Virchow's Arch. XCVIII 1884)
  • Child nutrition in infancy , (Stuttgart 1880, 4th edition 1900)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 97 , 766

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personal data
SURNAME Biedert, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederflörsheim
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1916
Place of death Haguenau in Alsace