Stavros Zurukzoglu

Stavros Zurukzoglu ( born April 5, 1896 in Smyrna, † November 26, 1966 in Bern ) was a Greek -Swiss physician who worked in Bern.

  • 4.1 anniversary publications
  • 4.2 Dissertations
  • 4.3 Further

Life

Study

Zurukzoglu " visited the Greek - French School in Smyrna. In 1915 he began to study medicine in Berlin. After a brief stay at the University of Geneva joined Zurukzoglu 1919 the University of Bern and graduated here in 1920 his studies. Then he wrote with Prof. Sobernheim at the Institute of Hygiene and Bacteriology in Berne a dissertation on the Methodology of the bacteriological diagnosis of diphtheria ( Promotion Date February 23, 1921 ). The year 1922/23, spent Stavros Zurukzoglu in Munich, where he first worked under Max von Gruber and whose lectures attended. Then he was introduced by Ignaz Kaup in the biological basis of social and racial hygiene. Munich presented at that time a center of racial hygiene theory and science is the Zurukzoglu met through his stay familiar with many important eugenicists, including Fritz Lenz. His time in Munich was interrupted by several months of research stays in the sanatorium Wehrawald / Black Forest. 1924/25, is held on Zurukzoglu in Athens, where he studied the elementary hygienic problems of the Mediterranean countries and acquired the license to practice medicine in Greece. As a result abschliessendes his time in Munich appeared in 1925 in the series border issues of the nervous and psychic life Bergmann Verlag, Munich, Biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized nations. "

Teaching

" 1927 Zurukzoglu habilitation with the work Experimental study on vaccines and herpes at the University of Bern for the subject of hygiene and bacteriology ", where he was a lecturer.

"In the summer term of 1928 he was an assistant with Prof. Sobernheim. In addition, he worked at the Swiss Federal Department of Finance in the revision of alcohol legislation and was a medical expert of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. 1932 Stavros Zurukzoglu Swiss citizens. "

1938 Zurukzoglus "adds lectureship in bacteriology and hygiene with the Social and Erbhygiene ". Zurukzoglu " held, among other lectures on the following topics ":

  • Hereditary health,
  • Forensic Biology,
  • Apartment hygiene,
  • Housing policy,
  • Beverages and tobacco addictions,
  • Bevölkerungsprobem in Switzerland,
  • Broad social hygiene,
  • Industrial hygiene,
  • International Hygiene,
  • Mental Hygiene,
  • Study of the blood groups.

In addition to teaching

  • " He took in 1938 and 1949 as a Swiss delegate to conferences of revision of the international nomenclature of causes of death in part ",
  • He worked " as a research associate of the Swiss Alcohol Board "
  • He led " a training center for social work,"
  • He founded the " International Academy of Spiritual Culture "
  • " He was employed in various commissions for the treatment of alcohol question and wrote to many scientific papers ".

In 1950 he was briefly in correspondence with Carl Albert Loosli.

" In 1951, he applied for an associate professorship for themselves. The request was rejected by the Berne Medical School after lengthy evaluation, 1955. In contrast, the appointment was approved as Honorary Professor at the summer semester 1956 on November 2, 1955. " Thus he became in 1956 an honorary professor of social hygiene and eugenics.

Zurukzoglu was married to a Berne. " On November 26, 1966 Stavros Zurukzoglu died at the age of 71 in Bern. "

Importance

"When life's work left behind Zurukzoglu total of 82 publications. These can be divided into two main groups: bacteriological- serological works of social hygiene and eugenics works. Eugenics is in the broad circle of creative Zurukzoglu only part dar. order to capture his person and their meaning entirely, is the processing of other aspects, such as the use of alcohol or prevention of microbiological studies Zurukzoglus necessary. "

Nevertheless Zurukzoglu is known today primarily as Rassehygieniker.

Zurukzoglu research on eugenics, population theory, alcoholism and criminal biology. "Even the titles of his works testify that the lecturer and honorary professor at the University of Bern especially for the Greek culture, against alcoholism, as well as topics such as racial hygiene 'or' Erbhygiene ',' degeneration 'and' Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring ' expressed, where he ' advocated internment, sterilization and castration, Inferior. "He had a significant influence on the Eugenikdiskurs the 1940s.

"In the congratulatory ads the Swiss Medical Weekly 60th and 70th birthday is Stavros Zurukzoglu described as very quiet, comfortable and, above all, scientifically exact man. His attention to detail and his scientific merits are highly praised. "

" Zurukzoglu is almost the textbook example of a man who knows how to bring together experts of different intellectual directions in order to win together with them a synopsis of complex life and science areas and guidelines for human behavior. "

"Especially Zurukzoglus were honored merits with respect to the alcohol research and prophylaxis, such as his participation in the cash recognition of alcoholism as a disease and the publication of the Manual The alcohol question in Switzerland and its Supplements, Works, which praised both at home and abroad were. "

Writings (selection )

  • Biological problems of racial hygiene and the civilized nations. Munich 1925 ( boundary issues of nervous and mental life. H. 123). ( About this work was a dissertation written )
  • Greek spring. Schwabe, Basel 1928.
  • Term and duties of Anormalenstatistik: Lecture, held am May 9, 1931 at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Association of Special Education Seminar Zurich. Special Education Seminar Zurich, Zurich 1931.
  • Marriage and health: A lecture. Francke, Bern 1934.
  • (Ed.) The alcohol question in Switzerland. 2 vols. Schwabe, Basel 1935-1945.
  • (Ed.) Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring: a critical review and appraisal. Schwabe, Basel 1938. ( About this work was a dissertation written )
  • Alcohol and disease: new findings from a Canton hospital. Schwabe, Basel 1941 ( Supplements to the alcohol question in Switzerland. H. 4).
  • With Walter von Gunten: The causes of poverty: socially biological investigation in the catering establishment Bärau. 2 vols. , 1943.
  • Nature and necessity of health care. EA Hofmann, Zurich 1944 ( Hofmann-Bibliothek. 103).
  • The alcohol question and its solution. Schwabe, Basel 1945 ( Supplements to the health care of the present. H. 1)
  • ' Mankind at the Crossroads: Is a way out of the present moral chaos possible? Gerber, Schwarzburg 1949.
  • By Paul Nussbaum: The meaning of " inferiority complex " for alcoholism: origins, treatment, prevention. Gerber, Schwarzburg 1954.
  • Alcohol-related crime in the Swiss Army during active military service from 1939 to 1945. Bern 1956 ( Supplements to the alcohol question in Switzerland. H. 29).
  • Is alcoholism a disease? The problem of the contribution obligation of health insurance for the treatment drunkard in the field of view of the physician: a survey among physicians. Schwabe, Basel, 1963 ( Supplements to the alcohol question in Switzerland. H. 35).
  • Problems of Erbhygiene. In: Anton Fingerle (ed.): race question today. Munich 1963, pp. 71-80.
  • Alcoholism as a cause of disease: Summary and comparison of different surveys. Basel 1965 ( Supplements to the alcohol question in Switzerland. H. 40/41 ).
  • The problem of damage to the offspring by the alcohol. Basel 1966 ( Supplements to the alcohol question in Switzerland. H. 42).
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