Walter Birk

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Walter Adolf Christian Birk (born October 14, 1880 in Wanzleben ; † December 28, 1954 in Tübingen ) was a German doctor and university professor .

Life

Birk was born the son of Ernst Paul Otto Birk and his wife Anna Charlotte Bertha Christine Arndt . After visiting the school , he studied in Tübingen , Halle , Berlin and Leipzig medicine . In the summer semester of 1900 he became a member of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen . In 1905 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD and approved at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . He then became a medical assistant at the children's clinic in Breslau with Adalbert Czerny and at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Viktoria-Haus in Charlottenburg with Arthur Keller .

From 1911 to 1918 he worked at the Princess Heinrich Hospital in Kiel and completed his habilitation there in 1912. As a volunteer he was seriously wounded at the beginning of the First World War . Until 1918 he was acting head of the children's clinic in Kiel. He then took over the management of the children's hospital in Tübingen and a chair at the university . In 1933 he was head of the university children's clinic. Birk remained head of the children's clinic and professor of pediatrics even after the end of the war . He retired in 1947.

1950 Birk was made an honorary member of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine (DGKV eV).

Awards

Fonts

  • Investigators on the metabolism of the newborn child . Leipzig, 1912.
  • Guide to Infant Diseases. For students and doctors . Bonn, A. Marcus & E. Weber (A. Ahn) 1914; last edition: Birk W. Infant Diseases (Guide to Pediatrics for Students and Doctors, Part One). Eighth, revised edition. Berlin, A. Marcus & E. Weber 1937
  • Guide to teething troubles. For students and doctors . Bonn, A. Marcus & E. Weber 1920; last edition: Birk W. Children's Diseases (Guide to Pediatrics for Students and Doctors, Part Two). Fourth, revised edition. Berlin, A. Marcus & E. Weber 1940
  • Radiation treatment for childhood diseases . Berlin, 1924.
  • Studies on the metabolism of the child in a fever . Berlin, 1926.
  • Textbook of maternal, infant and toddler care for nurses, sisters and mothers . Stuttgart, 1928.
  • The Württemberg Children's Aid . Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1931.
  • The transmission of paratyphoid Breslau by the Stomoxys calcitrans . Jena, 1932.
  • Preventable teething problems . Stuttgart, 1936.
  • Child cramps . Stuttgart, F. Enke 1938.
  • Hippocrates, Paracelsus and Liek in their meaning for today's medical profession . Stuttgart, 1946.
  • Infant diseases . Berlin, 1948.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 311.
  2. ↑ Proof of the appointment as an honorary member of the DGKH eV [1]
personal data
SURNAME Birk, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birk, Walter Adolf Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanzleben
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1954
Place of death Tübingen