Hans Eppinger

Hans Eppinger Jr. ( born January 5, 1879 in Prague, † September 25, 1946 in Vienna ) was an Austrian internist and professor at the University of Freiburg, Cologne and Vienna. He was the son of Hans Eppinger senior.

Life

After his medical training in Graz and Strasbourg, he graduated with a doctorate in 1903 for Dr. med in Graz, he became an assistant at the local medical clinic. From 1908 he worked as an assistant under Carl von Noorden Harko ( 1858-1944 ) and Karel Frederik Wenckebach ( 1864-1940 ) in Vienna. In 1909 he habilitated for internal medicine specialist and associate professor in 1918. In 1926 he was appointed to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1930 in Cologne. From 1933 he worked as a professor and director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine at the General Hospital in Vienna. 1936 Eppinger was called to Moscow to treat the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

Eppinger, since 1938 a member of the Nazi Party, was in 1944 with the agent for health care Karl Brandt, member of the scientific advisory board. In 1940, Eppinger was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Eppinger, whose interest was particularly the study of liver diseases and circulatory disorders and created the so-called " Permeabilitätspathologie " was involved with inmates in the Dachau concentration camp together with Wilhelm Beiglböck instrumental in experiments. Thus, for example, 90 Sinti and Roma to experiments in which the potability should be explored by sea water used. This sämtliches drinking water, the subjects were deprived of, among other things, and they only got to drink sea water. Most of them died within a very short time.

1945 Eppinger was, although relieved of his position as Chairman of the Vienna clinic, the medical officer of the Soviet High Command in Austria.

A month before he was to testify in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial, he took poison life. Beiglböck was sentenced by the court.

1976, the crater Euclides D was named on the moon by Eppinger, to honor his contributions to the field of research into liver disease and circulatory disorders. The designation was created in 2002, was canceled by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature ( WGPSN ), a working group of the International Astronomical Union.

Eppinger as a name

. Cauchois - Eppinger - Frugoni syndrome, English: Frugoni 's syndrome Chronic recurring inflammation and thrombosis of the portal vein, possibly the splenic vein; leads to splenomegaly or hepatosplenomegaly, anemia, leuco - and thrombocytopenia, possibly to esophageal varices, ascites, fever, skin and digestive tract bleeding. - Cf. Budd -Chiari syndrome

Publications

  • With Leo Hess: vagotonia. Clinical study. Berlin: Hirschwald, 1910 (. Collection clinical treatises on pathology and therapy of metabolic and nutritional disorders H. 9 /10)
  • The hepato - splenic disease. ( Pathology of the interactions between spleen, liver and bone marrow). Contains: . Ranzi, Egon: The operations of the spleen in the hepato - lineal disorders. Berlin: Springer, 1920
  • About the cardiac asthma. Attempt to peripheral circulatory pathology. Berlin: Springer, 1924
  • The diseases of the liver with the inclusion of hepatolienalen affections. Leipzig: Thieme, 1926
  • The failure of the circuit. Dynamic and energetic causes. Berlin: Springer, 1927
  • The serous inflammation. Vienna: Springer, 1935
  • The liver diseases. General and special pathology and therapy of the liver. Vienna: Springer, 1937
  • The Permeabilitätspathologie as the doctrine of the illness. Vienna: Springer, 1949
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