Albin Lambotte

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Albin Lambotte (* 1866 in Brussels ; † August 1, 1955 in Antwerp ) was a Belgian surgeon . With his compatriot Robert Danis , the Austrian Lorenz Böhler and the German Gerhard Küntscher , he was one of the pioneers of trauma surgery with his surgical treatment methods for bone fractures ( what he called osteosynthesis for the first time ), who are seen as role models by the working group for osteosynthesis issues .

Life

Albin Lambotte was the youngest of seven children of a Brussels professor of comparative anatomy. When he died, Albin was 7 years old. After studying medicine at the University of Brussels , he first worked in the Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek hospital with his brother, the surgeon Élie Lambotte (1856–1912). After his untimely death, he went to the Stuyvenberg Hospital in Antwerp in 1891 . He proved himself in the cholera - and diphtheria - epidemics . In 1894 he operated on his first gastrectomy . Since 1900 chief surgeon of his hospital, he performed the first laminectomies and craniotomies . As one of the first surgeons, he called for surgical resection of tubercular bone infections . Although already known outside of Belgium , he met with indifference and rejection from his colleagues. In 1902 he began developing implants for the surgical treatment of bone fractures in his own workshop . The term osteosynthesis , which is used worldwide today, goes back to him. After failures with corroded metal materials , he developed the first biodegradable implants. As early as 1902 he used the first unilateral external fixators (developed by him) . For each operation, Lambotte drew the findings and the implants used. "With reproductions of X-ray images and functional photographs of the patients, an unusually rich documentation of his two (never translated) textbooks was created".

In 1921 Lambotte founded the Belgian Society for Orthopedic Surgery .

Artists and craftsmen

He played in a string quartet - on instruments he made himself. He had learned violin making and made violins , violas and cellos . They are owned by the Crown of Belgium , the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles , the Conservatoire de Paris and the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerp . For fly fishing , he built feather-light fishing reels and fishing rods from bamboo split lengthways . He was also a draftsman and wood carver .

"A man's greatest crime is inaction."

- Albin Lambotte on the eve of his death

Works

  • The intervention opératoire dans les fractures récentes et anciennes envisagée particulièrement au point de vue de l'ostéo-synthèse avec la description de plusieurs techniques nouvelles . Brussels 1907, archive.org
  • Surgery of the fractures . Paris 1913, digitized

literature

  • R. Baumgartner: The osteosynthesis of Lambotte between 1895 and 1907 . German Orthopädisches Geschichts- und Forschungsmuseum (Yearbook) 2 (2000), pp. 21–29
  • P. Kinnaert, R. de Marneffe: Albin Lambotte - a great surgeon and artist friend . Revue Medicale de Bruxelles 23 (2002), pp. A469-72
  • Thomas Schlich: Lambotte, Albin. 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. 821.
  • Jean Verbrugge: Livre jubilaire. Offer au docteur Albin Lambotte par ses amis et ses élèves . British Journal of Surgery 24 (1937), p. 830

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chu brugmann
  2. ^ Leonard F. Peltier: Fractures - a history and iconography of their treatment
  3. ↑ A street in Schaarbeek is named after Élie Lambotte
  4. ↑ Stuyvenberg Hospital
  5. ↑ Bracket fixator from Lambotte  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vetmed.fu-berlin.de  
  6. ↑ Urs FA Heim: The AO phenomenon. Foundation and first years of the working group for the study of osteosynthesis . Verlag Hans Huber, Bern 2011, p. 19, ISBN 3-456-83638-4
  7. ^ Acta Orthopedica Belgica
personal data
SURNAME Lambotte, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1955
Place of death Antwerp