Carl Erich Alken

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Carl Erich Alken

Carl Erich Alken (born October 12, 1909 in Hönningen ; † December 21, 1986 in Homburg ) was a German urologist and university professor in Saarland.

Life

Alken studied medicine at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald , the Medical Academy Düsseldorf , the University of Graz and the University of Cologne . In 1934 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He completed his urological training from December 1935 to January 1938 with Alexander von Lichtenberg at the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin . During the Second World War he took part as a medical officer in a motorized medical department. In April 1940 he was drafted into the Todt Organization . He came to Saarland in 1946 . He set up a small urological department in what was then the regional hospital in Homburg. After acquiring the Venia legendi for general surgery in 1947 at the Sorbonne in Paris, Alken became an associate professor for urology at the Saarland University in 1948 , while at the same time taking the chair for urology, the first of this subject in German-speaking countries. From 1952 chief physician of the urological clinic, after the connection of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1958 he became a full professor at the University of Saarland. In 1959/60 he was dean of the medical faculty. In 1962 he founded the specialist journal Der Urologe . He retired on March 31, 1975 . One of his students is Jürgen Sökeland . The CE Alken Foundation awards a prize for excellent publications . Alken's staging of prostatic hyperplasia is still in use today.

Together with Egon Wildbolz , Victor Dix and Henry Weihrauch, he founded and published the Urology Handbook in 20 volumes at Springer from 1958 to 1982 .

Honors

literature

  • Wolfgang Müller : Prof. Dr. Carl-Erich Alken (October 12, 1909 - December 21, 1986) - Biographical approaches to the nestor of German urology , in: Karl-Michael Gib (ed.): History of Urology in Saarland , Sulzbach 2005, pp. 18–41 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CE Alken Prize for Innsbruck researchers , Innsbruck Medical University
  2. ^ CE Alken Foundation ( Memento from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Götze, Der Springer-Verlag, Volume 2, 1994, p. 47
  4. ↑ Honorary Senators of the Saarland University
  5. ↑ Leopoldina
  6. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the City of Homburg ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Introduction by Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc mult. CE Alken, Senator hc at Saar University. In: Friedrich v. Zglinicki : Uroscopy in the fine arts. An art and medical historical study of the urine examination. Ernst Giebeler, Darmstadt 1982, pp. 1-3; here: p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Alken, Carl Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hönningen
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1986
Place of death Homburg