Gustav Huguenin

Gustav Huguenin ( born July 21, 1840 in Krauchtal; † February 6, 1920 in Zurich; homeland justified in cell and Zurich ) was a Swiss psychiatrist, neurologist, internist and entomologist.

Life

The son of a doctor attended secondary school in Winterthur and studied science and medicine at the Universities of Zurich, Prague and Vienna. His teachers were in Zurich Wilhelm Griesinger, Anton anemia, Bernard of Gudden, Theodor Billroth and Eduard of beef and Theodor Meynert in Vienna, Moriz Benedikt and Johann von Oppolzer. Huguenin doctorate in 1865 in Zurich.

In the summer semester 1867 he habilitated at the University of Zurich, where he was appointed a full professor of psychiatry and director of the lunatic asylum Burgholzli in the winter semester 1872/73 as the successor to Gudden. From the winter semester 1874/75 until the summer semester 1883 he was professor of internal medicine and director of the medical clinic of the Cantonal Hospital in Zurich.

In 1883 he resigned because of a tubercular disease. But he continued to practice, among others in Wissembourg in the Simmental, but also in Algeria, Corsica and Italy, and devoted himself to the study of tuberculosis. Huguenin was also involved in entomology, leaving the Entomological Museum of the ETH Zurich is a large collection.

Writings (selection )

• About the Trachomdrüsen or lymphoid follicles of the conjunctiva. Pressure of D. Grossmann, 1865 miles (Dissertation, University of Zurich ).
• Pathological posts. J. Schabelitz, Zurich 1868 (contains: the marantic sinus thrombosis and to pathology of acute exanthema, Habilitation thesis, University of Zurich. ).
• General pathology of diseases of the nervous system: a textbook for physicians and study Rende. Part 1: Anatomical Introduction. Zurich & Furrer, Zurich 1873 ( no further parts appeared ).
• Acute and chronic inflammation of the brain and its membranes. In: Hugo by Ziemssen (eds. ): Handbook of special pathology and therapy. Vol XI, 1 bird, Leipzig 1876, pp. 329-756.