Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf
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Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf (born July 3, 1824 in Breslau ; † July 29, 1868 there ) was a German physician and surgeon. He is the founder of the galvano-caustic surgical method .
Life
Middeldorpf was a son of the then well-known theologian and orientalist Hinrich Middeldorpf . From 1842 he studied medicine at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He met the physiologist Johannes Müller and the surgeon Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach . In 1846 he received his doctorate in medicine and was assistant to Jan Evangelista Purkinje for a year .
After a few trips he founded an association for physiological medicine in Wroclaw . In 1849 he became an assistant doctor at the Allerheiligen Hospital , where he carried out experiments on a research method known as akidopeirastics . In 1850 he began his studies on galvanocaustic, which he founded as a surgical operation method in the broadest sense. In 1852 he completed his habilitation in Breslau as a private lecturer in surgery . In 1854 he became professor and in 1856 director of the surgical and ophthalmic clinic and polyclinic .
Middeldorpf served as general doctor in the German-Danish War and the German War . The method of ligation of the arteries by percutaneous piercing, ways of healing gastric abdominal wall fistulas by plastic surgery and the operation of esophageal polyps are also among his special medical services.
He died at the age of 44.
Honors
- Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class with the Ribbon (1864)
Works
- Doctrine of broken bones . Wroclaw 1852.
- The galvanocaust, a contribution to operative medicine . Breslau 1854.
Sources and literature
- Ernst Julius Gurlt : Middeldorpf, Albrecht Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 708-710.
- Gundolf Keil : Middeldorpf, Albrecht Theodor. 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. 987.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Order of St. John Journal, official monthly journal of the Balley Brandenburg; No. 35; Berlin August 31, 1864; P. 219
General surgery: Traugott Wilhelm Gustav Benedict (1814–1856) | Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf (1856–1868) | Hermann Fischer (1869–1890) | Johann von Mikulicz (1890–1905) | Carl Garrè (1905–1907) | Hermann Küttner (1907–1932) | Karl Heinrich Bauer (1932–1943) | Hans Killian (1943–1945) | Wiktor Bross | Stefan Koczorowski | Bogdan Łazarkiewicz
Cardiac surgery: Wiktor Bross (1946–1973) | Anatol Kustrzycki (1973–1987) | Tadeusz Bross (1987-1997) | Roman Krupacz (1997-2001) | Wojciech Kustrzycki
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Middeldorpf, Albrecht Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Middeldorpff, Albrecht Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon, founder of galvano-caustic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1868 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |