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Honorary membership: a Tribute to Christoph Ernst Hedinger, Zürich
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cradle of the scientific development of our discipline. Each European country has given important contributions for the progress of pathology in the last two hundred centuries. I quote in this connection such famous Czechoslovak pathologists as Victor Bochdalek, Vaclav Treitz, Vilem Dusan Lambl or Jaroslav Hlava. The foundation of the European Society of Pathology in 1964 was a compelling necessity to concentrate the endeavours of European pathologists and to unite the voice of Europe in the world-wide medical discussion. But European pathology will be more than pathology in Europe. The first step in this direction is the foundation of a commission with the title "Diploma for a European Pathologist". The aim is the harmonizing of the different European education programmes with regard to timing, training catalogue and practical occupation as pathologist. It was established with a view to unifying the general requirements for all European pathologists. We must attain closer contacts between the national societies and common scientific programmes with a scientific exchange of pathologists. It is more easy to obtain common aims if all scientific groups have a common scientific level. Under these aspects I would like to say yes to the initial question "Has pathology a future?". We are in a phase where pathology experiences a renaissance. We must give new priorities and integrate new methods. We must adapt our institutes to the new requirements. We need many
Honorary membership: a Tribute to Christoph Ernst Hedinger, Zurich The award of honorary membership is the greatest distinction which the European Society can confer. During the IXth European Congress of Pathology in Hamburg in 1983, the first diplomas of honorary membership were awarded to the three "Founding Fathers" of the European Society of Pathology: Professor Pierre Dustin (Belgium), Professor Alfonso Giordano (Italy) and Professor Carl Krauspe (FRG) "In honour for their pioneer work in forming the Society". On the occasion of the Xth European Congress of Pathology in Athens in 1985 Professor Janusz Groniowski (Poland), Professor Christian Nezelof (France) and Professor Alexandra Piringer-Kuchinka (Austria) received honorary memberships: Professor Groniowski for his great merit as pioneer and organizer of the 1st Congress of the European Society of Pathology in Warsaw (1966), and Professor Neze1<;>f and Professor PiringerKuchinka for their active promotion of the aims of the European Society of Pathology during their presidency.
efforts and singneless of purpose to attain this aim. Especially the young generation is called upon to realize the chance of future. We need not only new efforts, but also a clear goal for the further development of pathology in the sense of the words of the English writer Gilbert Chesterton: "What is the use of redoubling our efforts, if we have forgotten our goal?". Under these optimistic aspects I hope this 11th European Congress of Pathology will be an important milestone on the way to a European pathology. Tribute to Professor Hedinger as Honorary Member At the end of my opening address I have the great honour to award the honorary membership to Professor Christoph Ernst Hedinger, Director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Zurich (Switzerland). The award of honorary membership is the greatest distinction which the European Society of Pathology can confer. The diploma of honorary membership is awarded to Professor Hedinger "In honour for his permanent advancement of the aims of the European Society of Pathology and the consolidation of scientific and personal contacts between the pathologists of all European countries". With this award of a famous European pathologist the Xith Congress of the European Society of Pathology is opened.
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During the Xith European Congress of Pathology in Prague in 1987 the diploma of honorary membership was awarded to Professor Christoph Ernst Hedinger (Switzerland) "In honour of his permanent advancement of the aims of the European Society of Pathology and the consolidation of scientific and personal contacts between the pathologists of all European countries". Christoph Ernst Hedinger integrates within his person many attributes of the Swiss: independent and critical mentality, personal modesty and discretion, systematic scientific method of working and sympathetic helpfulness. One proverb says "Knowledge makes humble. The more wise, the more humble." Another proverb adds "Knowledge without order is household effect on a rack-waggon". And a third proverb of Normandie says "If you have success once, it can be chance. If you have success twice, it can be fortune. If you have success three times, it is ability and diligence". These three proverbs characterize the special attributes of Professor Hedinger. With regard to the award of the diploma I would like to interpret this act in the double sense, namely "The diploma honours not only the man, but the man also honours the diploma". His origins and the stages of his professional and scientific life are the basis of his great charisma in the development of pathology in Europe. Christoph Hedinger was born on February 5, 1917 in Basel as the third child of Ernst Hedinger, Professor of pathology at the University in Basel and later in Zurich. Christoph Hedinger completed the study of medicine at the Universities of Geneve, Berlin and Zurich from 1935 until 1941. In the following years he was assistant doctor of the Institute of Pathology in St. Gallen (1941-1945) and the Department of Internal Medicine of the Inselspital in Bern (1945-1950). Afterthis time he was assistant medical director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Zurich (1950-1956), and in 1953 was nominated "Privat-Dozent" by the Medical Faculty of the University in Zurich. After a scientific guest stay at the Institute of Pathology, University of San Francisco in California he was appointed to the chair of the new Institute of Pathology at the Kantonsspital in Winterthur. During his successful work in Winterthur Christoph Hedinger was nominated in 1959 as titular professor and in 1965 as "Extraordinarius" professor of the University of Zurich. The next stages of his scientific way were the appointment as Director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Lausanne in 1966, and in 1970 to the Director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Zurich. The special quality of Professor Hedinger's scientific work is the association of clinic and morphology under functional aspects. The reason for this ideal combination is his time as resident of the Department of Internal
Medicine in Bern and his intense involvement in problems of endocrinology. The pathology of endocrine diseases is the main topic of Christoph Hedinger's scientific work, especially his original and substantiated publications on the pathology of thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, testis and the fundamental research of the carcinoid syndrome. As result of these scientific achievements Professor Hedinger has received many scientific awards: honorary member of the "Societe Anatomique de Paris", official member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina" in Halle, degree of "doctor honoris causa" of the Free University of Brussels (1978) and the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (1981). The international classification of thyroid tumours has benefitted from Prof. Hedinger's function as a leader of a WHO international reference centre and the world-wide distribution of his VICC and WHO monographs on thyroid tumours. In this function Professor Hedinger has manifested his ability for integration and diplomatic balance of interests. The European Society of Pathology is indebted to Professor Hedinger for many activities, constructive proposals and important decisions. In 1969, he prepared and organized the lInd European Congress of Pathology in Zurich together with Professor Erwin Uehlinger, who was his teacher in pathology in St. Gallen and Zurich. Professor Hedinger has been an active participant in all European Congresses of Pathology. His manifold contributions to the lectures, symposia or slide seminars and his functions as chairman of many scientific sessions is a document of his untiring efforts to support the aims of the European Society of Pathology. As President of the European Society of Pathology from 1979 until 1981, he was engaged in the improvement of the Statutes with the aim of increasing the effectiveness and continuity of the European Society of Pathology, to unite the voice of Europe in the international medical discussion and to rejuvenate the membership of the Executive Committee. In his President's period the duration of active presidency was reduced from four to two years, and the new functions of President-Elect and Past-President were introduced. Professor Hedinger is a man of very great international reputation. He has always endeavoured to use these world-wide contacts for the further development and progress of the European Society of Pathology. For this unselfish work in the service of the European Society of Pathology the pathologists of all European countries thank Professor Hedinger wholeheartedly and wish him many further years of good health and scientific fulfilment. For his scientific work the aphorism of Schopenhauer is valid: "In age there is no better comfort than that the total power of the youth was integrated in works which do not grow old".
Professor Dr. Gerhard Seifert, Institute of Pathology, University of Hamburg, Martinistr. 52 UKE, D-2000 Hamburg 20, FRG
cradle of the scientific development of our discipline. Each European country has given important contributions for the progress of pathology in the last two hundred centuries. I quote in this connection such famous Czechoslovak pathologists as Victor Bochdalek, Vaclav Treitz, Vilem Dusan Lambl or Jaroslav Hlava. The foundation of the European Society of Pathology in 1964 was a compelling necessity to concentrate the endeavours of European pathologists and to unite the voice of Europe in the world-wide medical discussion. But European pathology will be more than pathology in Europe. The first step in this direction is the foundation of a commission with the title "Diploma for a European Pathologist". The aim is the harmonizing of the different European education programmes with regard to timing, training catalogue and practical occupation as pathologist. It was established with a view to unifying the general requirements for all European pathologists. We must attain closer contacts between the national societies and common scientific programmes with a scientific exchange of pathologists. It is more easy to obtain common aims if all scientific groups have a common scientific level. Under these aspects I would like to say yes to the initial question "Has pathology a future?". We are in a phase where pathology experiences a renaissance. We must give new priorities and integrate new methods. We must adapt our institutes to the new requirements. We need many
Honorary membership: a Tribute to Christoph Ernst Hedinger, Zurich The award of honorary membership is the greatest distinction which the European Society can confer. During the IXth European Congress of Pathology in Hamburg in 1983, the first diplomas of honorary membership were awarded to the three "Founding Fathers" of the European Society of Pathology: Professor Pierre Dustin (Belgium), Professor Alfonso Giordano (Italy) and Professor Carl Krauspe (FRG) "In honour for their pioneer work in forming the Society". On the occasion of the Xth European Congress of Pathology in Athens in 1985 Professor Janusz Groniowski (Poland), Professor Christian Nezelof (France) and Professor Alexandra Piringer-Kuchinka (Austria) received honorary memberships: Professor Groniowski for his great merit as pioneer and organizer of the 1st Congress of the European Society of Pathology in Warsaw (1966), and Professor Neze1<;>f and Professor PiringerKuchinka for their active promotion of the aims of the European Society of Pathology during their presidency.
efforts and singneless of purpose to attain this aim. Especially the young generation is called upon to realize the chance of future. We need not only new efforts, but also a clear goal for the further development of pathology in the sense of the words of the English writer Gilbert Chesterton: "What is the use of redoubling our efforts, if we have forgotten our goal?". Under these optimistic aspects I hope this 11th European Congress of Pathology will be an important milestone on the way to a European pathology. Tribute to Professor Hedinger as Honorary Member At the end of my opening address I have the great honour to award the honorary membership to Professor Christoph Ernst Hedinger, Director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Zurich (Switzerland). The award of honorary membership is the greatest distinction which the European Society of Pathology can confer. The diploma of honorary membership is awarded to Professor Hedinger "In honour for his permanent advancement of the aims of the European Society of Pathology and the consolidation of scientific and personal contacts between the pathologists of all European countries". With this award of a famous European pathologist the Xith Congress of the European Society of Pathology is opened.
110 . G. Seifert
During the Xith European Congress of Pathology in Prague in 1987 the diploma of honorary membership was awarded to Professor Christoph Ernst Hedinger (Switzerland) "In honour of his permanent advancement of the aims of the European Society of Pathology and the consolidation of scientific and personal contacts between the pathologists of all European countries". Christoph Ernst Hedinger integrates within his person many attributes of the Swiss: independent and critical mentality, personal modesty and discretion, systematic scientific method of working and sympathetic helpfulness. One proverb says "Knowledge makes humble. The more wise, the more humble." Another proverb adds "Knowledge without order is household effect on a rack-waggon". And a third proverb of Normandie says "If you have success once, it can be chance. If you have success twice, it can be fortune. If you have success three times, it is ability and diligence". These three proverbs characterize the special attributes of Professor Hedinger. With regard to the award of the diploma I would like to interpret this act in the double sense, namely "The diploma honours not only the man, but the man also honours the diploma". His origins and the stages of his professional and scientific life are the basis of his great charisma in the development of pathology in Europe. Christoph Hedinger was born on February 5, 1917 in Basel as the third child of Ernst Hedinger, Professor of pathology at the University in Basel and later in Zurich. Christoph Hedinger completed the study of medicine at the Universities of Geneve, Berlin and Zurich from 1935 until 1941. In the following years he was assistant doctor of the Institute of Pathology in St. Gallen (1941-1945) and the Department of Internal Medicine of the Inselspital in Bern (1945-1950). Afterthis time he was assistant medical director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Zurich (1950-1956), and in 1953 was nominated "Privat-Dozent" by the Medical Faculty of the University in Zurich. After a scientific guest stay at the Institute of Pathology, University of San Francisco in California he was appointed to the chair of the new Institute of Pathology at the Kantonsspital in Winterthur. During his successful work in Winterthur Christoph Hedinger was nominated in 1959 as titular professor and in 1965 as "Extraordinarius" professor of the University of Zurich. The next stages of his scientific way were the appointment as Director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Lausanne in 1966, and in 1970 to the Director of the Institute of Pathology, University of Zurich. The special quality of Professor Hedinger's scientific work is the association of clinic and morphology under functional aspects. The reason for this ideal combination is his time as resident of the Department of Internal
Medicine in Bern and his intense involvement in problems of endocrinology. The pathology of endocrine diseases is the main topic of Christoph Hedinger's scientific work, especially his original and substantiated publications on the pathology of thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, testis and the fundamental research of the carcinoid syndrome. As result of these scientific achievements Professor Hedinger has received many scientific awards: honorary member of the "Societe Anatomique de Paris", official member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina" in Halle, degree of "doctor honoris causa" of the Free University of Brussels (1978) and the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (1981). The international classification of thyroid tumours has benefitted from Prof. Hedinger's function as a leader of a WHO international reference centre and the world-wide distribution of his VICC and WHO monographs on thyroid tumours. In this function Professor Hedinger has manifested his ability for integration and diplomatic balance of interests. The European Society of Pathology is indebted to Professor Hedinger for many activities, constructive proposals and important decisions. In 1969, he prepared and organized the lInd European Congress of Pathology in Zurich together with Professor Erwin Uehlinger, who was his teacher in pathology in St. Gallen and Zurich. Professor Hedinger has been an active participant in all European Congresses of Pathology. His manifold contributions to the lectures, symposia or slide seminars and his functions as chairman of many scientific sessions is a document of his untiring efforts to support the aims of the European Society of Pathology. As President of the European Society of Pathology from 1979 until 1981, he was engaged in the improvement of the Statutes with the aim of increasing the effectiveness and continuity of the European Society of Pathology, to unite the voice of Europe in the international medical discussion and to rejuvenate the membership of the Executive Committee. In his President's period the duration of active presidency was reduced from four to two years, and the new functions of President-Elect and Past-President were introduced. Professor Hedinger is a man of very great international reputation. He has always endeavoured to use these world-wide contacts for the further development and progress of the European Society of Pathology. For this unselfish work in the service of the European Society of Pathology the pathologists of all European countries thank Professor Hedinger wholeheartedly and wish him many further years of good health and scientific fulfilment. For his scientific work the aphorism of Schopenhauer is valid: "In age there is no better comfort than that the total power of the youth was integrated in works which do not grow old".
Professor Dr. Gerhard Seifert, Institute of Pathology, University of Hamburg, Martinistr. 52 UKE, D-2000 Hamburg 20, FRG