Albert Lezius

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Albert Lezius (1951)

Albert Lezius (born January 5, 1903 in Dessau , † November 19, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Lezius attended the humanistic grammar school in Koethen . After graduating from high school, he began to study medicine at the Eberhard Karls University . As the third member of his family , he was appointed to the Corps Rhenania Tübingen in 1923 . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In Munich he met Rudolf Nissen . He was on friendly terms with him all his life. In the spring of 1927 Lezius passed the state examination.

Mainz, Frankfurt and Clichy

Through Nissen, Lezius found his way as an assistant to Wilhelm Jehn (1883–1934), a student of Ferdinand Sauerbruch in Munich, who had taken over the management of the surgical clinic in the Mainz City Hospital. In Mainz Lezius wrote his doctoral thesis, which he in 1931 Sauerbruch in Berlin to Dr. med. received his doctorate. After Jehn's tragic end in 1934/35, Lezius was entrusted with the provisional management of the Mainz clinic. From 1935 to 1939 he was an assistant doctor to Martin Kirschner in the surgical clinic of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1938 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the revascularization of insufficient coronary vessels . She made him known internationally. In Germany, he was one of the first surgeons who dealt with the surgical treatment of heart valve defects . Kirschner appointed him senior physician.

On April 1, 1939, he became chief physician at the Bürgerhospital (Frankfurt am Main) . As soon as he was trained, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht after five months . For three years he headed the surgical department of the great hospital of the Air Force in Clichy . When he became a prisoner of war in November 1944 , the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main awarded him the title of professor . In the post-war period he returned to the Bürgerhospital in March 1946.

Lübeck and Hamburg

Albert and Hildegard Lezius grave,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

After just one year, in 1947, he took over surgery at the Lübeck City Hospital East. Here Lezius could develop; In a very short time a center for thoracic surgery, which had been missing in northern Germany for a long time, was established . In the university district of Lübeck , a street is named after him.

In 1950, Lezius followed the long hesitation in calling the University of Hamburg to her chair for surgery. In the successor to Georg Ernst Konjetzny , he was director of the surgical clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In the same year, in 1950, Lezius carried out a closed heart operation for the first time in Hamburg, a detonation of the mitral valve . He had already dealt extensively with anesthesiological questions and promoted the independence of the "anesthesia subject" operated by Karl Horatz . This also benefited him because he wanted to expand lung and heart surgery . In 1951 he was chairman of the 68th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . He had completed the chapter on cardiovascular surgery for Bier-Braun-Kümmell's surgical studies . With Nissen and Karl Vossschulte , he founded the first German specialist journal for thoracic surgery. With Nissen, he initiated the establishment of a German section of the International College of Surgeons . While preparing a monograph on cardiac surgery, he suffered a heart attack on November 10, 1953 , which he succumbed to nine days later. His successor at the UKE was Ludwig Zukschwerdt .

Albert Lezius was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg in grid square AC 13 (north-west of the north pond ).

Honors

Fonts

  • The lung resections . Stuttgart 1953 (revision: Herman Christian Nohl-Oser, Rudolf Nissen, Hans Wilhelm Schreiber: Surgery of the lung , Thieme, 1981)
  • with Rudolf Nissen: Thoracic Surgery , 1953.

literature

  • Rudolf Nissen: In memory of Albert Lezius . German Medical Weekly 79 (1954), p. 88
  • Paul-Georg Tegtmeyer: Results of the treatment of pertrochanteric femoral fractures with the Lezius-Herzer round nail. Report of 354 cases from 1952-1968 . 1970. GoogleBooks
  • Jens Alnor: Albert Lezius , in this: The history of surgery in Hamburg-Eppendorf . Med. Diss. Univ. Hamburg 1985, pp. 114-138.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (Central Journal for Surgery)
  2. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1960, 128/774.
  3. ↑ Hans Rudolf Berndorff : A life for surgery. Obituary for Ferdinand Sauerbruch. In: Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition Bertelsmann, Munich 1956, pp. 456–478, here: p. 460.
  4. ↑ Dissertation: About a case of an operated pancreatic echinococcus .
  5. ↑ The End of Jehn (GoogleBooks)
  6. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The anatomical and functional basis of the artificial blood supply of the heart muscle through the lungs with coronary artery occlusion .
  7. ↑ a b c d Albert Lezius: A surgeon with heart and soul  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 2.7 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / hochschulstadtteil.de
  8. ↑ The East Clinic later came to the University of Lübeck and is now the Lübeck campus of the Schleswig-Holstein University Medical Center
  9. ^ Albert-Lezius-Strasse in Lübeck
  10. ↑ UKE (2004)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 736 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.uke.de
  11. ↑ Michael Goerig: On the history of anesthesiology in the UKE ( Memento from May 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 548 kB)
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Teichmann , Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder : 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009
  13. ^ August Bier , Heinrich Braun and Hermann Kümmell
  14. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Lezius, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1953
Place of death Hamburg