Adolf Miehlke

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Adolf Miehlke (born September 16 [differently also September 15] 1917 in Berlin ; † January 24, 2001 ) was a German physician . The specialist in facial nerve diseases was director of the ENT clinic at the University of Göttingen .

Career

Miehlke completed surgical training with Hermann Krauss (1899–1971) at the Göppingen District Hospital from 1945 to 1950 and thus began his career as a general surgeon. Soon there was a turn to ear, nose and throat medicine. From 1950 to 1951 he studied this subject at the University of Giessen . He became Gerhard Eigler's assistant and got to know Paul Falk , who also taught there. When Falk was offered a professorship in Homburg and moved to Saarland University in 1951 , Miehlke followed him and became his student.

Despite the modest circumstances, they worked together to establish a university ear, nose and throat clinic in Homburg . Miehlke wrote his habilitation thesis on the causes of peripheral positional nystagmus in 1953, supervised by Falk . Research reports on diseases of the facial nerves were also produced, which led to a book about it in 1960, which became a standard work . In 1963 he was appointed to the chair of ear, nose and throat medicine by the University of Göttingen. He took up this position on January 1, 1964 and later became director of the university ENT clinic . He found favorable conditions in Göttingen: more employees, better conditions such as a large clinic and contact with neighboring disciplines. He made sure that his facility for the research and treatment of facial nerves achieved a high profile. It was here that the standard work Die Chirurgie des Nervus facialis, which had many editions and was translated into English , was written . Like the Würzburg ENT doctor Horst Ludwig Wullstein , the otologist Miehlke was one of the pioneers in the field of subtle operations in the middle ear area and for nerve reunification. Another credit was the establishment of a phoniatric department . His publication activities (partly together with his assistants) included essays, conference presentations, manual contributions and a student textbook on facial surgery and salivary glands . He also took over the editing of the specialist journal ENT Information , which he made into one of the leaders in its field. In 1985 he retired .

Adolf Miehlke was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (ed.): Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century . Compiled and edited by Konrad Fleischer and Hans Heinz Naumann. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-540-60664-5 , Göttingen, p. 119-125 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Miehlke, Adolf, p. 310 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Herman Diamant: Professor Adolf Miehlke 1917–2001 . In: Acta Otolaryngologica . Volumne 121, Issue 4, 2001, ISSN  0001-6489 , Obituary, p. 436 ( tandfonline.com [accessed March 24, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Volker Zimmermann: "Bringing a Medicinal Faculty into Flor". On the history of the medical faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-940344-98-4 , Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic, p. 70 .
  5. ↑ Miehlke, Adolf, Prof. Dr. Dr. med. hc - single view. In: uni-saarland.de. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 156.

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personal data
SURNAME Miehlke, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1917 or September 16, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2001