Walter Teller

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Walter Teller (born October 10, 1928 in Essen , † February 10, 1999 ) was a German pediatrician.

Life

Teller's parents were the government builder Dr.-Ing. Paul Teller and his wife Edith geb. Shoemaker. The Second World War led to the early death of his father in 1939. The mother had to support four small children alone. As a flak helper , Walter Teller was called to the Reich Labor Service in 1944 and drafted into the Wehrmacht infantry in March 1945 . Bombed out by the air raids on the Ruhr area in Essen, the fatherless family moved to Mülheim an der Ruhr . There Teller attended the municipal high school . After graduating from high school , he enrolled at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburgfor medicine. As a scholarship holder, he passed the Physikum after five semesters with first-class results. In the summer semester of 1951, he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . During the reconstitution of the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg , he became the fox of the Corps. As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1954 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He spent his first years as a doctor in Altoona (Pennsylvania) , at the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf and at the Mayo Clinic . This was followed by pediatric training at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School . Back in Germany, he completed his habilitation in Marburg with Friedrich Linneweh in pediatrics and pedology . With Horst Bickel in Heidelberg he was briefly senior physician and department head for pediatric endocrinology. In 1968 he followed the call of the University of Ulm to her chair for paediatrics. From 1979 to 1981 he was Vice Rector . He supervised 14 habilitation theses. Two senior physicians were appointed to chairs. He was an honorary member or corresponding member of pediatric societies in Germany, Egypt, Hungary, Finland, Austria and Paraguay, in Switzerland and in the United States. In 1978/79 he was President of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology. In 1989 he headed the 85th annual conference of the German Society for Pediatrics . After 28 years of service, he was retired . His farewell lecture on March 21, 1997 was on the subject of "Growth and Development - A Law of Nature". In the same year he made himself available to his corps as chairman of the old rulers. His last big trip took him to Marco Island in 1998 , the first time he was charged . Teller died cross-country skiing at the age of 70.

Teller was married to Ursula born in 1958. Heidenhain. The marriage resulted in a daughter and two sons.

Visiting professorships

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary for Walter Teller . Hasso-Borussen-Post 1/2000.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 67/523.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Experimental studies on the thermal hemolysis of human erythrocytes .
  4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The excretion of C 19 and C 21 steroids in the urine under normal and pathological conditions of development and maturation .
  5. ↑ Dieter Knorr: On the death of Prof. Dr. W. Teller (SpringerLink)
personal data
SURNAME Teller, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1999