Walter Marget
Walter Marget (born August 1, 1920 in Stuttgart ; † January 21, 2013 ) was a German pediatrician.
Life
Walter Marget worked at the University Children's Clinic in Freiburg from 1951 to 1961 , where he set up the department for pediatric infectious diseases with laboratory diagnostics . He completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1961. He first went to Tübingen and in 1967 to the Dr. from Haunersche Children's Hospital . There he was head of the Infectious Diseases and Immunology department until his retirement .
The focus of his scientific work was the sepsis pathogenesis and epidemiology in children. He was the founder and long-time editor of INFECTION magazine . Marget was a co-founder in 1983 and has been an honorary member of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (www.espid.org) since 1997. An annual training course ( Walter Marget Educational Workshop ) at ESPID is named after him.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (June 29, 1988)
- Moro Prize of the German Society for Pediatrics
- 1999: ESCMID Award for Excellence in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
literature
- Dieter Adam : Prof. Dr. med. Walter Marget . Special issue, MMW-progress of medicine 1980.
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1980
Web links
- Walter Marget Association at the German Society for Infectious Diseases
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ Biographical data of Walter Marget in: Who's Who - The German Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 910, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
- ^ Habilitation thesis: Contribution to the epidemiology of staphylococcal diseases .
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marget, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2013 |