Oskar Naegeli

Oskar Naegeli ( born February 25, 1885 in Ermatingen, Canton of Thurgau, † November 19, 1959 in Fribourg ) was a Swiss dermatologist and chess master.

Biographical Background

Oskar Naegeli came from a family of doctors. His father Otto Naegeli (1843-1922) was a founder of manual therapy, equal- older brother professor of internal medicine and director of the Medical University Hospital in Zurich.

A great-nephew Oskar Naegeli is the graffiti artist Harald Oskar Naegeli (the " Sprayer of Zurich ").

Dermatologist

After studying at the universities of Geneva, Zurich, Munich and Heidelberg Oskar Naegeli received his doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1909. He worked in Freiburg im Breisgau, at the Pathological Institute at Ludwig Aschoff and at the Medical University Polyclinic under Paul Oskar Morawitz, later at the medical clinic in Zurich.

Finally, he was an associate professor in 1917 and head physician of dermatology at the University Hospital of the University of Bern island. In Bern he had previously qualified as a professor in the fields of Dermatology and Venereology. Named after him Naegeli syndrome is an inherited skin disease which he first described in 1927.

Chess Master

Naegeli was also known as a chess player. In the years 1910 and 1936 he won the Swiss championship. In 1933 he was defeated in a race to the Czechoslovak world class player Salo Flohr with 2:4. He was a participant of the strong tournaments in Bern in 1932 and Zurich 1934.

He represented Switzerland at the Chess Olympiads in 1927, 1928, 1931 and 1935 as well as the unofficial Chess Olympiad in 1936 in Munich.

Works

• Cerebri About the recent research in the field of physiology and pathology of the hypophysis, Freiburg im Breisgau 1911