Albert Hoffa

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Albert Hoffa

Albert Hoffa (born March 31, 1859 in Richmond , Cape Colony ( Namakwa / South Africa ); † December 31, 1907 in Cologne ) was a German surgeon and orthopedist .

Life

Hoffa's father was Moritz Hoffa , the first German doctor in Pretoria from Kassel . The mother was Mathilde Hoffa geb. Lelienfeld .

Albert Hoffa came to Germany as a child. After graduating from high school in Kassel, Hoffa studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1879 he became active in the Corps Hasso-Nassovia . As an inactive he moved to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , which made him Dr. med. PhD.

Wurzburg

With Hermann Maas he went to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . At the Juliusspital , where he worked surgically, he qualified as a professor for surgery in 1886 . In 1893 he married Sophie Günther (1867–1938). In 1892 he founded the journal for orthopedic surgery , of which he was editor until his death. Since 1895 apl. Professor , he taught orthopedics and founded a private clinic for orthopedics, therapeutic gymnastics and massage with Ernst Bumm in Würzburg in 1887 . He ran the orthopedics department and was one of the founders of the German Society for Orthopedic Surgery in 1901 . His textbook on orthopedic surgery , first published in 1891, is a summary of the possibilities of conservative and surgical treatment methods in orthopedics at the time. His students included Hermann Gocht , August Blencke , Hans Spitzy , Alfred Schanz , Gustav Drehmann and Gustav Albert Wollenberg.

Berlin

The Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin appointed him in 1902 as associate professor and director of the University Polyclinic for Orthopedic Surgery. Hoffa pushed the surgical emphasis on orthopedics, but at the same time made technical orthopedics and physiotherapy under medical responsibility. He succeeded in the first open reduction of a congenital hip dislocation . He expanded his orthopedic training to include neurological, radiological and internal medicine. In the appendix to his world-famous textbook on orthopedic surgery (1905) the first orthopedic bibliography that he had created with August Blencke appeared.

death

Albert Hoffa had been suffering from diabetes and a heart condition for about ten years when, during a trip to Antwerp on Christmas 1907 for professional reasons , he developed severe heart problems that forced him to go to bed. He had to interrupt the return journey, which he had made anyway, in Cologne and finally be admitted to the Augusta Hospital there, where he died on New Year's Eve at the age of 48. At the autopsy, atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries was found. Albert Hoffa was buried on January 4, 1908 in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Charlottenburg (today's district of Berlin-Westend ). The grave is preserved.

His wife survived him by more than 30 years. Elisabeth Hoffa of his five daughters also became a doctor.

Social medicine

Hoffa recognized the socio-medical problems with disabilities . He initiated the first comprehensive statistics on all crippled children (1906) and promoted specialist supervision of school and vocational training. For the purpose of welfare , he pushed through the establishment of appropriate special institutions. The children's homes in Bad Sodenthal and Groß-Lichterfelde , the Cäcilienheim for bone and joint tuberculosis in Hohenlychen , the Berlin-Brandenburg Cripple Education Institute as the predecessor of the Oskar-Helene-Heim and the Humboldt Sanatorium on Tenerife owed the establishment to him.

Works

  • Textbook of orthopedic surgery (Stuttgart 1891 u. Ö.), Translated into many languages.
  • The outpatient treatment of tuberculous hip joint inflammation using portable devices . Lipsius & Fischer 1893.
  • On crippling and care for cripples , 1906.
  • Technique of massage (1893); 9th edition with Hermann Gocht and Hans Storck (1937)
  • Atlas and ground plan of the association theory (1900) 3rd edition, 1904  - Internet Archive
  • Textbook of fractures and dislocations for doctors and students , 1887/88.
  • The follow-up treatment of the deformities remaining after the end of the coxitis . Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1896.
  • The modern treatment of congenital hip dislocation . Seitz & Schauer, Munich 1898.
  • The more recent research on the pathology and therapy of silicosis , 1898.
  • The chronic ankylosing inflammation of the spine (Strümpell) . Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1899.
  • The osteotomy in the treatment of hip joint deformities . A. Stuber's Verlag (C. Kabitzsch), Würzburg 1899.
  • The modern treatment of clubfoot . Seitz & Schauer, Munich 1899.
  • The modern treatment of spondylitis . Seitz & Schauer, Munich 1900.
  • Orthopedics in the service of neurology , 1900.
  • Prophylaxis in surgery . Seitz & Schauer, Munich 1900.
  • with Ludwig Rauenbusch: Atlas of orthopedic surgery in X-ray images . Enke, Stuttgart 1906.
  • Operations on the skeletal system. In: Georg Joachimsthal : Handbook of orthopedic surgery I , 1905/07.
  • with Gustav Albert Wollenberg: Arthritis deformans and so-called chronic rheumatoid arthritis; a radiological and anatomical study . Enke, Stuttgart 1908.

Honors

literature

  • Markwart Michler :  Hoffa, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 387 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Uwehorst Paul: 150 years of Berlin orthopedics. The path of Berlin orthopedics and the societal nature of its change. In: Uwehorst Paul: 150 years of Berlin orthopedics (= scientific publication series of the Humboldt University ). Humboldt University, Berlin 1985, pp. 9–97.
  • Erdmute Baudach: A study of Albert Hoffa and his response in America taking into account the circumstances of the time. Würzburg 1977 (dissertation, University of Würzburg, 1978).
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Hoffa, Albert. 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. 608.

Web links

Commons : Albert Hoffa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 101 , 407.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About nephritis Saturina .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The nature of anthrax poison .
  4. ↑ Albert Hoffa: Communications from the surgical-orthopedic private clinic of the private docent Dr. A. Hoffa zu Würzburg . Munich 1889.
  5. ↑ Nicolae Buschinger: Albert Hoffa - a biographical presentation and interpretation of his life and work in Würzburg . Dissertation Würzburg 1971.
  6. ^ August Rütt (Ed.): History of orthopedics in the German-speaking area . Enke, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-432-25261-7 , p. 36.
  7. ^ A b Klaus Vassel: Corps history of Hasso-Nassovia in Marburg 1839–1954. A retelling. 2 volumes Marburg 1979 and 1981.
  8. ↑ Albert Hoffa: The bloody operation of the congenital hip dislocation . Wuerzburg 1901.
  9. ↑ The orthopedic literature . Stuttgart 1905.
  10. ↑ Albert Hoffa †. In: Berliner Tageblatt . January 2, 1908, evening edition, pp. 1–2. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 474–475.
  11. ↑ Biography, Albert Hoffa (Collections HU Berlin)
  12. ↑ Award ceremony 2013 ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Hoffa, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Cape Colony
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1907
Place of death Cologne