Alban Koehler

Alban Köhler (born March 1, 1874 in Petsa , † February 26, 1947 in Niederselters ) was a German radiologist.

Life

Köhler was the son of a farmer, attended grammar school in Altenburg and studied medicine in Berlin , Erlangen and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1893 he became a member of the Franconia Freiburg fraternity . In 1897 he was awarded a Dr. med is doing his doctorate. After working as an assistant to the pathologist Georg Schmorl (1861–1932) and then to Friedrich Cramer (1847–1903) in Wiesbaden, he became a radiologist in 1903.

In 1905, Köhler was a co-founder of the German Radiological Society .

Works

X-ray bone disease. Wiesbaden, 1901.
The technique of producing almost orthodiographical heart photograms using X-ray instruments with a small source of electricity. Wiener Klinische Rundschau, Vienna, 1905, 19: 279-282.
Radiographic representation of the normal and pathological anatomy of the hip and thigh. Hamburg, 1905.
X-ray diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis. Hamburg, 1906.
About a common, so far apparently unknown disease of individual children's bones. Munich Medical Weekly, 1908, 55: 1923-1925. (About Freiberg-Köhler Syndrome) ..
Limits of the normal and the beginnings of the pathological in X-rays. Thieme-Verlag Hamburg, 1910; 6th edition 1931; trans. into English, French, Italian and Spanish
X-ray procedure in surgery. Berlin, 1912.

literature

Jean A. Laissue, Hans Blattmann, Daniel N. Slatkin: Alban Köhler (1874-1947): Inventor of Lattice Therapy , in: Journal of Medical Physics 22/2 (June 2012), pp. 90–99.
Jürgen Freyschmidt : Alban Köhler. In: Fortschr. Röntgenstrasse Volume 163, 1995, pp. 463-468.
Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Koehler, Alban. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 770 f.

Web links

Alban Köhler at www.whonamedit.com
Literature by and about Alban Köhler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 262.

personal data
SURNAME	Koehler, Alban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Petsa
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1947
Place of death	Niederselters

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 262.