William Silberschmidt

William Silberschmidt (1914)

William Silberschmidt (born January 17, 1869 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , † April 8, 1947 in Zurich ) was a Swiss medic .

Life

William Silberschmidt's father had immigrated from Germany and set up the first watch factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Silberschmidt graduated 1887 Matura at the Gymnasium in Porrentruy . He studied medicine at the University of Bern , with two semesters abroad at the University of Munich . In 1892 he passed the state examination , and in 1893 he received his doctorate under Ernst Tavel . After a stay at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he was given the position of assistant under Oskar Wyss at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Zurich. In 1895 he received his habilitation in Zurich . From 1906 he was extraordinary , and from 1910 full professor for hygiene with including the school hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Zurich. In 1912 the Hygiene Institute and the Pharmacological Institute moved into a new building on Gloriastrasse. In 1935 he resigned.

The historian Max Silberschmidt was his son.

Fonts (selection)

• Experimental investigations on the factors of the intestinal contents that are effective in the development of perforation peritonitis. In: Communications from clinics and medical institutes in Switzerland. Series 1, no. 5, 1894, pp. 431-466 (dissertation, University of Bern, 1893).
• Contribution à l'étude de la swine-plague du hog choléra et de la pneumoentérite des porcs. In: Annales de l'Institut Pasteur. February 1895, pp. 66-103 (habilitation thesis, University of Zurich, 1895).
• Garbage (with household rubbish). In: August Gärtner (Ed.): Handbook of Hygiene. 2nd Edition. Vol. 2, Section 4, Barth, Leipzig 1918, pp. 573-714.
• Spread and social significance of cancers. In: Cancer Disease. Three lectures. Rascher, Zurich 1918.

literature

• Festschrift, Prof. Dr. W. Silberschmidt, director of the hygienic institute in Zurich on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Dedicated by his students and friends. Schwabe, Basel 1929.
• Arthur Grumbach : William Silberschmidt 1869–1947. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . Vol. 92 (1947), H. 2, p. 282 f. ( online ).
• Arthur Grumbach: William Silberschmidt (1869-1947). In: Quarterly journal of the Natural Research Society in Zurich . Vol. 92 (1947), H. 2, pp. 140-144 ( online ).
• Professor William Silherschmidt. January 17, 1869 to April 8, 1947. In: University of Zurich: Annual Report 1947/48. P. 68 f. ( online ).
• Maria Loretan: William Silberschmidt 1869–1947. Hygienist and bacteriologist. Juris, Zurich 1988 (Diss. Med., University of Zurich, 1988).