Walter H. Hitzig

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Walter Hermann Hitzig (born May 9, 1922 in Mexico City ; † October 9, 2012 ; resident in Zurich and Burgdorf ) was a Swiss pediatrician and transplant specialist .

Life

Hitzig spent the first three years of school at the German secondary school in Mexico because his father Theodor Hitzig worked as a doctor in Mexico City. He studied medicine at the University of Zurich and graduated in 1947 with the state examination. 1949 doctorate Hitzig to Dr. med. with his dissertation on the development of the pig placenta. After years of assistance ( psychiatry , internal medicine , pediatrics ) in Basel , Bern and from 1953 at the Children's Hospital Zurich , he was a Research Fellow in Pediatrics at the Boston Children's Hospital in the United States in 1955/56 . There he acquired knowledge of clinical and experimental immunology , which he implemented back at the Children's Hospital in Zurich, thereby expanding pediatric immunology in Switzerland into a promising specialty.

Hitzig discovered an inherited hemoglobin anomaly ( Hb Zürich ). He founded child immunology in Europe. Hitzig's first description of congenital severe combined immunodeficiency ( SCID ) in 1958 was a pioneering achievement. As a result, Hitzig campaigned for the affected children to be cured through a bone marrow transplant , which was first achieved in Switzerland in 1987. Hitzig achieved an international reputation for his immunological and scientific work. In 1974 he described the immunodeficiency in transcobalamin -II deficiency.

He was in 1961 with the writing at the University of Zurich The blood protein image in infancy: Specific Protein determinations with special reference immunochemical methods habilitation and 1963 assistant professor appointed. 1965 Hitzig was extraordinary and in 1977 full professor of pediatrics. From 1975 he worked as deputy head physician, later as head of pediatric hematology until his retirement in 1989 at the Children's Hospital in Zurich.

His specialties within paediatrics were hematology, immunology and oncology .

From 1987 to 2000, Hitzig worked at the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) in Basel, from 1986 to 1992 he was its vice-president and from 1992 to 2000 the president of its central ethics committee . In 2000 he was made an honorary member of the SAMS.

The Pediatric Immunology Working Group awards the Walter Hitzig Prize to young scientists in the field of pediatric immunology. The Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency at the University Medical Center Freiburg awards scholarships for young scientists as part of the Walter Hitzig program.

Fonts

  • On the development of the pig placenta. In: Acta Anatomica Vol. 7 (1949), No. 1/2, pp. 33-81, doi: 10.1159 / 000140374 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1949).
  • The blood protein picture in infancy: Specific protein determinations with special consideration of immunochemical methods. In: Helvetica paediatrica acta. Vol. 16 (1961), No. 1, pp. 46-81 ( habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1961).
  • (with Paul Frick and Urs G. Stauffer ) The Hemoglobin Zurich Syndrome. In: Swiss Medical Weekly . 91: 1203-1205 (1961).
  • For the quantitative determination of specific protein fractions: Methodical investigations with special consideration of immunochemical methods. In: International Archives of Allergy and Applied Immunology. Vol. 19 (1961), No. 5, pp. 284-311, doi: 10.1159 / 000229218 .
  • The plasma proteins in clinical medicine: results of specific determinations with special consideration of immunochemical methods. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1963; 2nd, revised edition: Blood protein: Pathophysiology and Clinic. Springer, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-540-08035-X .
  • Pediatric Immunology: New Findings. Keynote speeches at the annual conference of the Swiss Society for Pediatrics, Zurich, 14./16. June 1974, with additions. Karger, Basel 1975, ISBN 3-8055-2190-1 .
  • Epidemics in old and new times (= quarterly journal of the Natural Research Society in Zurich. Vol. 131, 1986, no.5). Natural Research Society, Zurich 1987.
  • Children's life and children's suffering: changes in four centuries (= New Year's sheet of the learned society in Zurich for the best of the orphanage. Vol. 154). Beer, Zurich 1991.
  • Family tree of the Hitzig family. Zurich 2007.
  • Ferdinand Hitzig: January 30, 1836– August 14, 1860. Letters from the years 1852 to 1860. Zurich 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Obituary notice  ( 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. of the Children's Hospital Zurich -Eleonorenstiftung in the Tages-Anzeiger of October 12, 2012, p. 20@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / imageshack.us  
  2. ↑ Th. Hitzig was a secondary doctor at Hermann Eichhorst's clinic
  3. ↑ Historic address books: Dr. Theodor Hitzig Mexico, Mexico. Retrieved October 13, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c Regula Heusser-Markun : Interview - When is a person a corpse? NZZ Folio , November 1, 1995, accessed on October 12, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b Reinhard Seger: pioneer of research. ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Research magazine 3/2009 Knowledge creates help , Children's Hospital Zurich-Eleonorenstiftung, pp. 18–20 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kispi.uzh.ch
  6. ↑ Laurels 2000. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: University of Zurich , accessed on October 13, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uzh.ch
  7. ↑ Walter Hitzig Prize ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Pediatric Immunology Working Group (kinderimmunologie.de); Retrieved November 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kinderimmunologie.de
  8. ↑ Walter Hitzig Program of the CCI at the University Medical Center Freiburg; accessed on January 7, 2014
  9. ↑ Article about Ferdinand Hitzig, Hermann Hitzig's brother . In: Tages-Anzeiger from May 3, 2010 ( «There is an enormous number of rabble here» )
personal data
SURNAME Hitzig, Walter H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hitzig, Walter Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pediatrician and transplant doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2012