Franz Hamburger
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| birth_place = Pitten, Austria
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| death_place = Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, Austria
| nationality = Austrian
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Franz Hamburger (14 August 1874 in Pitten – 29 August 1954 in Vöcklabruck) was an Austrian medical doctor and university lecturer.Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronik der Wiener Krankenanstalten. Wien, Köln, Weimar 2007, S. 371
Biography
Hamburger attended high school in Wiener Neustadt, and studied medicine at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Munich and Graz. In Heidelberg in 1892 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania.Verzeichnis der am 1. November 1937 lebenden Heidelberger Rhenanen. o. O. [1937], S. 37f. In 1898 he passed the state medical examination for qualification as a doctor. After gaining his doctorate in medicine he became a ship's doctor, then worked as a doctor in Heidelberg, Vienna and Graz. Following specialist training as a pediatrician, he graduated in 1900 with Theodor Escherich. In 1906 he completed his habilitation thesis and worked as a lecturer. From 1914 to 1917 he fought in Serbia and Italy during World War I. In 1916 he became a full professor of pediatrics at the University of Graz. After the death of Clemens von Pirquet in 1930 he was invited to the University of Vienna, where he became Director of the Pediatric Clinic. One of his staff was Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician and pioneer in the study of autism. In later years, Asperger spoke of Hamburger with great admiration as a man of impressive skill, and said that his teaching had been of immense influence upon his career.{{cite book |first=Adam |last=Feinstein |year=2010 |title=A History of Autism: Conversations with the Pioneers | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | isbn=978-1-4051-8653-7 | page=15 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VdR7C6yI4LcC&q=asperger+hamburger+franz&pg=PA15|title=Development and Brain Systems in Autism|editor=Marcel Adam Just, Kevin A. Pelphrey|page=15|isbn=978-1-84872-640-6|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2013}} He joined the Nazi Party in 1934, at a time when it was still banned by the Austrofascist dictatorship of Engelbert Dollfuss.{{Cite book|title=Asperger's children: the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna|last=Edith|first=Sheffer|publisher=|year=2018|isbn=978-0-393-60964-6|edition= First|location=New York|page=46|oclc=1005104504}} In 1944 he retired, but remained as manager of the children's ward at the hospital in Vöcklabruck.
Works
- Kinderheilkunde, lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studenten (1920){{cite book |title=Kinderheilkunde, lehrbuch für ärzte und studenten |website=Open Library |date=1940 |publisher=F. Deuticke |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL16776241M |ol=16776241M}}
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Category:20th-century Austrian physicians
Category:Academic staff of the University of Graz
Category:Academic staff of the University of Vienna
Category:Austrian pediatricians
Category:Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I