Hans Chiari

Hans Chiari ( born 14 September 1851 in Vienna, † May 6, 1916 in Strasbourg ) was an Austrian pathologist and university teachers.

Life

The son of the Viennese gynecologist Johann Baptist Chiari attended the Scots College. After graduation he studied medicine at the University of Vienna. 1874/75 he was an assistant to Carl von Rokitansky, the founder of modern forensic medicine. Then, until 1879, when Richard Ladislaus Heschl, he habilitated in 1878 in pathologic anatomy.

Four years later he became associate professor at the spun- German Charles-Ferdinand University. The following year he was appointed Professor and Head of the pathological- anatomical museum in Prague. 1900/ 01 he was rector of the Charles-Ferdinand University. In 1906 he was appointed the Kaiser-Wilhelms- University of Strasbourg on her Chair of Pathological Anatomy. 1914/15 he was also rector. With 65 years, he died in Strasbourg.

Named after him are the Budd- Chiari syndrome and Chiari malformation.

Publications

  • About changes in the cerebellum, the pons and the medulla oblongata as a result of hydrocephalus of the cerebrum. Prague 1891
  • Experience of infarctions in the liver of humans. Journal of Medicine 19 (1898 ), pp. 475-512.
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