Simon van Creveld

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Simon van Creveld (* 1894 in Amsterdam ; † March 10, 1971 ) was a Dutch pediatrician and university professor of Jewish descent.

Career and work

Van Creveld studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam . During his studies he also worked in the biochemical laboratory of Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen . It was there that van Creveld met his future wife Elizabeth van Dam (1897–1973). In 1918 he finished his studies and worked for five years at the Institute for Physiology at the University of Groningen . It was there that both of them isolated insulin for the first time in the Netherlands. In 1923 he went back to Amsterdam, where he specialized in pediatrics. In 1926 he opened a private practice and was also head of the pediatric department at the Wilhelmina Hospital ( Wilhelmina Gasthuis ) in Amsterdam under Isidore Snapper . In 1933 he became professor of pediatrics at the University of Amsterdam. When the National Socialists occupied the Netherlands, van Creveld lost his position in 1941 and was taken to a concentration camp with his wife. Both survived and van Creveld returned to his old position in Amsterdam after the war.

Van Creveld is the author or co-author of over 400 scientific publications. In 1940 he published an article with Scottish pediatrician Richard Ellis on a new disease, both of which called chondroectodermal dysplasia . This hereditary disease was later renamed Ellis-van-Creveld-Syndrome after its first description . An anecdote has it that the two authors met by chance on the train when they were on their way to a medical meeting. During the conversation, they both discovered that each of them was planning a publication about the same disease. They decided to publish it together. Because of the better sound ( euphony ) and the alphabetical order, Ellis became the first author.

Van Creveld later worked in the field of hemophilia .

Publications (selection)

  • S. van Creveld: Prophylaxis in haemophilia. In: The Lancet . Volume 1, Number 7696, February 1971, p. 450, ISSN  0140-6736 . PMID 4100418 .
  • S. van Creveld: Transfusion in hemophilia. In: Bibliotheca haematologica. Volume 34, 1970, pp. 1-8, ISSN  0067-7957 . PMID 4908198 .
  • S. van CREVELD: The clinical course of glycogen disease. In: Canadian Medical Association journal. Volume 88, January 1963, pp. 1-15, ISSN  0008-4409 . PMID 14023832 . PMC 1920899 (free full text).
  • S. Van Creveld: Some Experiments and Remarks on the Possible Transformation of d-Glucose in the Intestine and on the Nature of Blood-Sugar. In: Biochemical Journal . Volume 17, Number 6, 1923, pp. 860-871, ISSN  0264-6021 . PMID 16743225 . PMC 1259589 (free full text).
  • S. van Creveld: Direct evidence of the impermeability of blood cells in humans and rabbits for glucose. 1921

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish Historical Museum: Simon van Creveld. Retrieved January 9, 2012
  2. ^ RD Strous: Antisemitism and the History of Medicine: the Challenge Then and Now.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: IMAJ. Volume 12, 2010, pp. 229-230.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ima.org.il  
  3. ^ HR Wiedemann: Simon van Creveld.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Eur J Pediatr. Volume 150, Number 2, 1990, p. 79. doi : 10.1007 / BF02072042@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / resources.metapress.com  
  4. ^ RW Ellis, S. van Creveld: A Syndrome Characterized by Ectodermal Dysplasia, Polydactyly, Chondro-Dysplasia and Congenital Morbus Cordis: Report of Three Cases. In: Archives of Disease in Childhood . Volume 15, Number 82, 1940, pp. 65-84, ISSN  0003-9888 . PMID 21032169 . PMC 1987729 (free full text).
  5. ^ VC Baum, JE O'Flaherty: Anesthesia for genetic, metabolic, and dysmorphic syndromes of childhood. Edition 2, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, ISBN 0-7817-7938-3 , p. 120. Limited preview in Google Book Search

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personal data
SURNAME Creveld, Simon van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1971