Finkelstein

FINKELSTEIN Heinrich (Heinrich Finkelstein; b. 1865), one of the pillars of German pediatrics; studied in Leipzig and Munich. In 1888, Ph.D., and in 1897, M.D. From 1894 to 1900, he worked as an assistant in the pediatric clinic of Charité, and from 1901 as senior physician of a children's shelter and city orphanage in Berlin. Privat-docent from 1899, and from 1906, professor and then director of the City Children's Hospital. After completing his service, he retired in 1933. A subtle clinician and serious scientist who deeply studied issues of nutrition in early childhood. He developed and established clinical forms of nutritional disorders in children. He fought for the adequacy of children's nutrition (in opposition to the teachings of Biedert). Finkelstein's formula for determining the food ration of newborns is well known, as well as the protein milk F., proposed by him together with L. Meyer in 1910 and which created an era in pediatric dietetics. Of his scientific works, published separately: "Lehrbuch der Säuglingskrankheiten" (3rd ed., B., 1924), which is a classic guide in this field, and "Hautkrankheiten und Syphilis im Säuglings- und Kindesalter" (B., 1921).