Richard Wagner (medic)

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Richard Wagner (born October 30, 1887 in Vienna , † April 19, 1974 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was an Austrian-American pediatrician .

Life

Richard Wagner, son of Moritz Wagner and Gisela, born Ratzersdorfer, took after graduation in addition to assistant at the biological research institute vivarium a study of medicine at the University of Vienna in which he in 1912 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. As a result, Wagner took up his first professional job as an aspirant at the First Medical Clinic in Vienna, then from 1912 to 1913 at the Physiological-Chemical Institute in Strasbourg under Professor Franz Hofmeister , and in 1914 at the children's department of the Kaiser-Franz-Josef Hospital as well as at the Pharmacological Institute in Vienna before he did military service until the end of the First World War.

Subsequently, Wagner initially worked at the First Medical Clinic and at the Pharmacological Institute in Vienna until he moved to the Vienna University Children's Clinic in 1919 as an extraordinary assistant and student of Clemens von Pirquets . After Wagner at the Vienna University of Pediatrics 1924 habilitation had, he was assigned there with a professor activity. He was also a member of the Society of Doctors in Vienna , the Society for Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in Vienna, the Biological Society in Vienna, the German Society for Pediatrics and the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

In 1938 Richard Wagner, who was of Jewish faith, was revoked the Venia Legendi . Wagner emigrated to the United States, where he became a professor of paediatrics at Boston University after his naturalization . Richard Wagner died on April 19, 1974 at the age of 86 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1979 his remains were transferred to Vienna and buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Richard Wagner placed a scientific focus on the physiology and pathology of metabolism as well as diabetes mellitus in childhood.

Fonts

  • The treatment of the child's sugar urinary dysfunction, Vienna, Julius Spranger, 1925
  • The nutrition of healthy and sick children. The Diet of the Diabetic, 1928
  • With Richard Priesel: Diabetes and their treatment in childhood, Leipzig, G. Thieme, 1932
  • Clemens von Pirquet. His life and work . Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md. 1968

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Wagner's grave in www.viennatouristguide.at

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1974
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts