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Meinhard von Pfaundler
Austrian paediatrician, born June 7, 1872, Innsbruck;
died 1947.
Associated eponyms:
Hurler's syndrome
A metabolical disease characterized by dwarfism, hunchback, gargoyle like facies, mental retardation, and a large number of other abnormalities.
Pfaundler's reaction
Fadenreaktion auf Koli- und Proteusbazillen (German).
Biography:
Meinhard von Pfaundler attended the University of Graz and received his doctorate there. He trained with Franz Hofmeister (1850-1922 in Strasburg and was a pupil of Theodor Escherich (1857-1911). He was habilitated for paediatrics at Graz in 1900, becoming ausserordentlicher professor and head of the children’s clinic 1902. In 1906 he went to Munich as director of the university clinic there. He retired in 1941 and moved to the Austrian Tyrol in 1944 when his house in Munich was destroyed in a bombing raid. Pfaundler was one of Germany's leading paediatricians in his time.
Bibliography:
With Arthur Schlossmann (1867-1932) Pfaundler was co-publisher of:
- Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde. Leipzig, 1906.
2nd edition in 6 volumes, Leipzig, F. C. W. Vogel, 1910-1912.
4th edition, 1931. English translation, 1912-1924. Translated into Russian.
In volume 1 of the 4th edition Pfaundler wrote the chapters:
- Biologisches und Allgemein-Pathologisches über die Frühen Entwicklungsstufen.
- Konstitution und Konstitutionsanomalien. Allgemeines, Begriff, Wesen, Grundlagen.
- Zur Anatomie der Nebenniere.
Sitzungsberichte der k. k. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 1892, 101: 515.
- Über Magencapacität und Gastrektasie. Stuttgart, 1898.
- Physiologisches, Bacteriologisches und Klinisches über Lumbalpunctionen an Kindern. Vienna and Leipzig, 1899.
- Über Kalkabsorption und Rachitistheorien. Vienna, 1904.
- Physiologie der Laktation.
Handbuch der Milchkunde, Wiesbaden, 1909.
- Die K. Univer.-Kinderklinik im Dr. von Haunerschen Kinderspital zu München. Munich, 1911.
Hauner is August von Hauner (1811-1884) who founded a private children’s hospital in Munich in 1845.
- Physiologie des Neugeborenen.
In Albert Döderlein (1860-1941) publisher: Handbuch für Geburtshilfe. Volume 1. Munich and Wiesbaden, 1915; 2nd edition, 1924.
- Körpermasstudien an Kindern. Berlin, 1916.
- Bekämpfung der Ansteckung in Kleinkinderanstalten. Berlin, 1931.
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