Ferdinand Siegert
| Born | 1865 |
| Died | 1946 |
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Biography of Ferdinand Siegert
Ferdinand Siegert attended the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Giessen, and Strassburg, obtaining his doctorate at the latter in 1889. He was secondary physician at the Hyrtl-Krankenhaus in Möding near Vienna, assistant at the Geneva pathological institute under Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845-1904), as well as assistant and head physician at the university children’s clinic in Strassburg under professor Oswald Kohts (1844-1912), where he was habilitated for paediatrics in 1896.
As the first Kommunal-Fürsorgearzt he founded the Säuglingsfürsorge (an infant care institution) as well as, in 1901, a large Säuglingsheilstatt (infants' nursing home). In 1904 he became ausserordentlicher professor of this discipline at Halle an der Saale, and that same year was appointed ordentlicher professor at the Akademie für praktische Medizin. In 1919 he moved on to the same tenure at Köln. He retired in 1931.
Siegert's work concerns infectious diseases, particularly diphteria, infant and the normal and pathological anatomy of the child skeleton. Of particular importance were his studies on the nutritional demands, in particular children's demand for white of egg, and his demonstration of the importance of heredity in rachitis.
Bibliography
- Vier Jahre vor und nach der Einführung der Serumbehandlung der Diphterie.
Berlin, 1900. - Die Chorea minor. Würzburger Abhandlungen aus dem Gesamtgebiet der Medizin 8, H. 3, Würzburg, 1907.
- Erkrankungen der Schilddrüse.
Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde, 2nd edition, volume 3, Leipzig, 1910. - Die Athyrecose im Kindesalter.
Handbuch der inneren Sekretionen, volume 3, 1; Leipzig, 1928.