Heinrich Zangger

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Heinrich Zangger (6 December 1874 – 15 March 1957) was a Swiss

toxicologist and coroner. He was one of the "foremost forensic scientists of his generation".[1]

Heinrich Zangger
Born6 December 1874
PhD
, 1902)

Biography

Zangger was the son of a prosperous farmer and studied medicine at the

professor extraordinarius for anatomy and special physiology of domestic animals at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (animal hospital) of the University of Zurich.[2]

On September 7, 1905, he was appointed

professor ordinarius and director of the newly founded Institute for Forensic Medicine.[2]

In 1905 Zangger won international fame as a hero for his role in guiding the rescue in the commune Courrières of over 100 French coal miners trapped underground by an explosion. Officials in the French government had contemplated abandoning the rescue attempt when Zangger's examination of the mine shafts brought conviction to continue the rescue effort.[3]

He was a leading expert not only in forensic medicine, but also in the aspects of law, politics, and ethics related to medicine.[1] In 1932 he was elected to the International Committee of the Red Cross, of which he was an active member until 1947 and later an honorary member.[4] He was involved in drafting the Zürcher Strafgesetzbuch (Zurich Criminal Code) and the Liability Act. He was also a pioneer of environmental protection and disaster medicine.[2]

In 1924 he received the

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[7]

In 1906 he married Mathilde Mayenfisch.[2] Robert Schulmann had a hint from Gina Zangger, Heinrich's daughter, that Evelyn Einstein, who was the adopted daughter of Hans Albert and Frieda Einstein, might have been Albert Einstein's illegitimate daughter.[8]

Heinrich Zangger's body was buried at Friedhof Sihlfeld [de]. His fonds are in the manuscript department of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.

Friendship and correspondence with Albert Einstein

Zangger had known

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) with the right to award doctorates. At the time, Einstein was negotiating for a professorship in Utrecht and was thus also able to exert influence.[9] Marie Curie and Henri Poincaré wrote letters of recommendation for Einstein.[11]

Perhaps the best known letter of Einstein to Zangger is the November 1915 letter in which Einstein suggested that David Hilbert was the only colleague who was able to understand Einstein's newly developed theory of general relativity.[12] In that famous letter, Einstein complained about his wife Mileva and claimed that Hilbert was attempting to take credit for general relativity.[13]

After Einstein and his first wife separated and Einstein remained in Berlin, Heinrich Zangger greatly assisted Einstein's estranged wife and two sons, who lived in Zurich. Zangger's assistance lasted "well into the 1930s".[1]

Sources

  • E-Periodica
    )
  • Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein, Suhrkamp 1993
  • Christof Rieber: Albert Einstein. Biografie eines Nonkonformisten. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7995-1281-7

Selected publications

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780691141749
    .
  2. ^ a b c d "Zangger, Heinrich". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz HLS.
  3. ISBN 9780141002217
    .
  4. doi:10.1007/BF02464179
  5. ^ "1924, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Zangger, Toxikologie". Schweizer Wisseschafts—preis Marcel–Benoist.
  6. ^ Zangger, H. (1925). "Eine gefährliche Verbesserung des Automobilbenzins (A dangerous improvement in automotive gasoline)". Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift. 55 (2): 26–29.
  7. ^ "Heinrich Zangger". Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  8. ISBN 9781429997386
    .
  9. ^ a b Fölsing, Albert Einstein, Suhrkamp 1993, p. 330
  10. ISBN 9780141002217
    .
  11. ISBN 9780743264747. p. 176, p. 177
  12. ISBN 9780691141749
    .
  13. doi:10.1063/1.2138403
    . (translated and annotated by Bertram Schwarzschild)
  14. ^ Goenner, Hubert. "review (in German) of Seelenverwandte. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Albert Einstein und Heinrich Zangger (1910–1947)". pro-physik.de.

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