Wilhelm Loeffler

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Wilhelm Löffler (1961)

Wilhelm Löffler (born June 28, 1887 in Basel , † November 25, 1972 in Zurich ; resident in Basel) was a Swiss internist .

Life

Wilhelm Löffler, son of the businessman Karl Egon Eduard Löffler, devoted himself to studying medicine at the Universities of Geneva , Basel and Vienna , which he achieved in 1911 with the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. He then worked at the Institute for Pathology at the University Hospital Basel until 1912 , then at the Physiological-Chemical Institute at the University of Strasbourg under Franz Hofmeister until 1913, and finally again at the University Hospital Basel under Rudolf Staehelin until 1921 .

After completing his habilitation in internal medicine in Basel in 1917 , he was appointed associate professor at the University of Zurich and head of the Zurich Polyclinic in 1921 . From 1937 to 1957, Löffler succeeded Otto Naegeli as full professor and director of the medical clinic and then held lectures until 1971 . In 1955 Wilhelm Löffler was entrusted with the care of Thomas Mann , who suffered from thrombophlebitis .

Wilhelm Löffler married Anna Ida, née Herzog (1884–1942), who was born in Basel in 1914. They had three children: Hans Löffler (1916–1997), physician and microbiologist , Susanna Woodtli (1920–2019), Germanist , historian and feminist , and Peter Löffler , director and theater manager . Wilhelm Löffler died on November 25, 1972 five months after he had turned 85 in Zurich.

Act

The versatile physician Löffler introduced the use of insulin in Switzerland . He was the first to describe the two clinical pictures volatile lung infiltrates with eosinophilia (1932) and parietal endocarditis fibroplastica (1936). Wilhelm Löffler published important information about the prevention and control of tuberculosis , especially serial examinations using screen imaging, and its history. The Löffler Syndrome was named after him.

From 1960 to 1964 he was President of the SAMS , founded in 1943 .

Publications (selection)

  • About the behavior of the gas exchange in diabetes after the supply of pure protein bodies and pure carbohydrates, 1919.
  • Limits and sources of error in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, 1931.
  • Experiences with encephalography and brain puncture, 1931.
  • Contribution to the orthodiagraphy of the heart and the great vessels: A method for the simple marking of the central ray with a fixed screen, 1933.
  • Febris undulans Bang as an accident and as an occupational disease, 1934.
  • On sulfanilamide therapy in pneumonia (Dagénan and Ciba 3714), 1940.
  • Effectiveness of various sulfanilamide preparations, 1941.
  • The attack of gout as an allergic phenomenon, 1943.
  • On the accumulation of "icterus simplex" in diabetes, 1943.

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personal data
SURNAME Löffler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss internist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1972
Place of death Zurich