Albrecht glasses

Albrecht Gläser (born July 27, 1928 in Chemnitz ; † June 7, 2013 in Leipzig ) was a German surgeon and university professor. In the GDR he made Leipzig and Halle (Saale) centers for oncology .

Life

Glasses studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1947 . After two and a half years in internal medicine and pathology, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In January of the same year he began his surgical training with Herbert Uebermuth . The clinic had its own histological laboratory in which all surgical specimens and quick sections were examined. Glasses headed it from 1958 to 1968. The connection between clinical pathology and oncological surgery was the basis of his scientific work. Since 1960, specialist and senior doctor , habilitated glasses to 1961. In Leipzig he led the pancreaticoduodenectomy which hemipelvectomy and the evisceration of the pelvis with neobladder and enterostomy one. At the end of the 1960s, he founded the interdisciplinary working group for clinical oncology in Leipzig . As a lecturer , professor with teaching assignment (1966) and full professor (1969), he was first senior physician and sole chief deputy for more than 21 years. Several appointments to other university hospitals failed because he refused to join the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . In 1983, the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg appointed him director of the (not yet divided) surgical clinic. After the German reunification , his integrity was recognized by a new appointment. He remained loyal to oncology even after his retirement at the end of 1994. Since the fall of the Wall, he promoted psychosocial cancer counseling and from 1994 to 1998 he devoted himself to oncological rehabilitation in Saxony-Anhalt .

Glasses supervised over 100 doctoral and diploma students. Eight employees completed their habilitation with him. He was the editor and advisor to several medical journals. Since 1958 he was a member of the German Society for Surgery . He was also involved in the European Association for Cancer Research . With Wolfgang Genschorek he wrote and edited biographies of Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1979), Carl Gustav Carus (1980), Walter Stoeckel (1980), Robert Koch (1981), Ernst Ludwig Heim (1982), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1982), Janusz Korczak (1983), Albert Schweitzer (1986) and Theodor Brugsch (1988).

Works

• Clinical pathology of tumors , 4 vols. VEB Verlag Georg Thieme, Leipzig 1974, ISBN 978-3-437-10385-8 .
• Cancer surgery . Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag , Leipzig 1993, ISBN 978-3-335-00280-2 .

editor

• Langenbeck's Archive for Surgery (since 1991)

Honors

• Founding member (1968) and chairman (1981–1987) of the Society for Combating Tumors in the GDR
• Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (1984)
• Presidium of the German Society for Surgery (1990–1993)
• Co-opted board member of the German Cancer Society (1990–1994)
• Honorary member of the Saxony-Anhalt Cancer Society (2000)
• Honorary member of regional surgeon and cancer societies

Web links

• Literature by and about Albrecht Gläser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary of the Saxony-Anhalt Cancer Society (with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: Behavior of some amino alcohols and amines in tissue and their influence on the acetylcholine effect .
2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Clinic and pathology of the head salivary gland tumors .
3. ^ Saxon Academy of Sciences