Adolf Gusserow
Adolf Ludwig Sigismund Gusserow (born July 8, 1836 in Berlin ; † February 6, 1906 there ) was a German gynecologist .
Life
Gusserow studied medicine at the universities of Berlin , Würzburg and Prague . In 1859 he received his doctorate , the habilitation took place in 1864 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . He then became a private lecturer there .
Gusserow was a full professor at the University of Utrecht from 1866 , but moved to the University of Zurich in 1867 , where he was rector in 1870/71 . In 1872 he became a professor at the University of Strasbourg and in 1878 full professor for obstetrics at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. In 1880 he married Clara Oppenheim (1861–1944), the youngest daughter of the lawyer Otto Georg Oppenheim , maternal granddaughter of the banker Alexander Mendelssohn and great-great-granddaughter of the businessman and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn .
In 1870 Gusserow was the first to describe the rarer type of cervical cancer , adenocarcinoma ( adenoma malignum ). He published the findings in his work on Sarcomas of the Uterus .
In 1882 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Together with Christian Gerhard Leopold , Gusserow was editor of the journal Archiv für Gynäkologie .
His students included Alfred Dührssen (1862–1933) and Paul Zweifel (1848–1927).
Adolf Gusserow died unexpectedly on February 6, 1906 at the age of 69 in Berlin. He was buried in the local Trinity Cemetery I in front of the Hallesches Tor . In the lattice grave that has been preserved, a black granite obelisk with a base serves as a tombstone.
Works
- Obstetrics and Gynecology in the UK - A Travelogue. in the Google book search Engelhardt, Leipzig 1864.
- Over sarcomas of the uterus. In: Arch Gynecol Obstet. 1 (1870), pp. 240-251. doi: 10.1007 / BF01814006
- On the study of the metabolism of the fetus. Engelhardt, Leipzig 1872.
- About menstruation and dysmenorrhea. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1874.
- The neoplasms of the uterus. Enke, Stuttgart 1886. (Reprint: Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-1464-7 )
literature
- J. Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin / Vienna 1901, pp. 660–661.
- W. Nagel: Adolf Gusserow (1836–1906). In: BJOG . 9 (2005), pp. 385-386. doi: 10.1111 / j.1471-0528.1906.tb09001.x
- A. Hegar : The sarcoma of the uterus. In: Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2 (1871), pp. 29-47. doi: 10.1007 / BF01680047
- K. Ishii et al: Cytologic and Cytochemical Features of Adenoma Malignum of the Uterine Cervix. In: Cancer Cytopathology . 87 (2000), pp. 245-253. doi : 10.1002 / (SICI) 1097-0142 (19991025) 87: 5 <245 :: AID-CNCR2> 3.0.CO; 2-0
- A. Ebert, W. Pritze: Adolf Gusserow (1836–1906), founding of the 2d University Gynecologic Clinic of the Charité and the Berlin Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In: Zentralbl Gynakol. 115, 1993, pp. 181-187. PMID 8503238
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Gusserow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography in the catalog of the scientific collections of the Humboldt University in Berlin
- Portrait in the portrait collection of Berlin professors at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- Overview of Adolf Gusserow's courses at the University of Zurich (winter semester 1867 to summer semester 1872)
Individual evidence
- ^ Family tree Moses "Dessau" Mendelssohn ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Professor Dr. Adolf Gusserow † . In: Berliner Tageblatt , February 7, 1906, evening edition, p. 2.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 225.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gusserow, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gusserow, Adolf Ludwig Sigismund (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gynecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1906 |
| Place of death | Berlin |