Rudolf Hecker (doctor)

Rudolf Hecker (born October 21, 1868 in Munich , † February 27, 1963 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German pediatrician and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school in Munich, Rudolf Hecker devoted himself to studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed in 1892 with the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. After a brief activity as a ship's doctor , Hecker held assistant positions in Augsburg , Berlin , Prague and Vienna before moving to the University Children's Hospital in Munich in 1896, where he completed his habilitation in 1898 . Hecker received an extraordinary professorship there in 1910 , which he held until 1937.

In 1898, Hecker and Joseph Trumpp founded a children's outpatient clinic in Munich, which was taken over to the Schwabing hospital a short time later . The focus of his research was on nutritional damage and rickets in infants.

Hecker's son Peter Hecker , who was born in 1899, was District Administrator of the Munich district from 1948 to 1970.

Fonts

• On tuberculosis in children and infants, dissertation , In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift , Numbers 20 and 21, 1894
• Contributions to the histology and pathology of congenital syphilis as well as to the normal anatomy of the fetus and newborns, habilitation thesis , Lippert & co., 1898
• The so-called hardening of children, Bergmann, 1903
• With Joseph Trumpp: Atlas and floor plan of paediatrics, Lehmann, 1905
• Education for military capability: From infancy to military service. After a public lecture given in Munich, O. Gmelin, 1915
• With Bernhardine Woerner: The child and his care: An auxiliary book for mothers, edition 3, Hanfstaengl, 1918
• Migraine in childhood and adolescence, Karger, 1936
• With Bernhardine Woerner: New school textbook for infant care: edited for girls' schools, Wega-Verlag, 1941
• With Walther Schmelz, Walter Bachmann: Outline of Health Care, Reinhardt, 1954
• Performance and recovery ability in childhood and adolescence with special consideration of circulation and breathing, Munich., 1960

literature

• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 4. KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , page 472.
• Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 1: A - Q. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 . Page 257, 258.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Hecker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography of Rudolf Hecker in "The History of the Schwabing Children's Hospital" (PDF; 256 kB) in www.kind.med.tu-muenchen.de ( Memento from July 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )