Franz Hamburger

Franz Hamburger ( born August 14, 1874 in Pitten; † August 29, 1954 in Vöcklabruck ) was an Austrian physician and university teacher.

Life

Hamburger attended high school in Wiener Neustadt and studied medicine at Heidelberg, Munich and Graz. In Heidelberg he became in 1892 a member of the Corps Rhenaniastraße. It was 1898, the medical state examination. After the MD thesis he was temporarily employed as a ship's doctor, then as a doctor in Heidelberg, Vienna and Graz. His specialist training as a pediatrician he graduated in 1900 with Theodor Escherich. In 1906 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on arteigenes and foreign protein and became private. As the Austrian army doctor took Hamburg from 1914 to 1917 in Serbia and Italy in World War I part. In 1916 he became a full professor of pediatrics at the University of Graz. After the death of Clemens von Pirquet in 1930 he received a professorship at the University of Vienna where he was also Head of the University Children's Hospital. In 1944 he became Professor Emeritus, but still took over the management of the children's ward at the hospital in Vöcklabruck.

Works

• Textbook of Pediatrics ( 1920)