Chiari Hans

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Biographical detailsThis section has been translated automatically.

Austrian pathologist, born September 4, 1851 in Vienna, died May 1916 in Strasbourg.

Hans Chiari was born in Vienna in 1851, the son of Johann Chiari (1817-1854), a gynecologist. He studied medicine in Vienna and was an assistant to Carl von Rokitansky (1804-1878) from 1874 to 1875. Subsequently, until 1879, assistant to Richard Ladislaus Heschl (1824-1881).

1878 Habilitation in Vienna for pathological anatomy. Four years later he became extraordinarius in Prague. The following year he was appointed full professor and superintendent of the pathological-anatomical museum in Prague. In 1906 he was appointed full professor of pathological anatomy in Strasbourg, where he remained until his death in 1916.

In 1891 Chiari published in Prague a series of observations entitled: "On changes in the cerebellum, pons and medulla oblongata due to hydrocephaly of the cerebrum". Chiari had thus accepted the theory that the cause of the deformities in the posterior cranial cavity was the hydrocephalus of the child.

Budd-Chiari syndrome is named after the Englishman Georges Budd as well as after Hans Chiari.

LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.

  1. Chiari H (1877) On three cases of primary carcinoma in the fundus and corpus of the uterus. Med Jb, 1877: 364-368.
  2. Chiari H (1891) On gastric syphilis. International contributions to scientific medicin. Festschrift dedicated to Rudolf Virchow. Berlin 2: 295-321.
  3. Chiari H (1904) On the syphilitic diseases of the aorta. Verhandlungen der Deutschen pathologischen Gesellschaft 6: 137-163.

Last updated on: 03.09.2023