Alexander von Winiwarter

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Alexander von Winiwarter

Alexander von Winiwarter (born April 22, 1848 in Vienna , † October 31, 1917 in Liège ) was an Austrian-Belgian surgeon .

family

His grandfather was the lawyer and university professor Joseph von Winiwarter . He was the older brother of Felix von Winiwarter and cousin of Natalie Bauer-Lechner , after whom and Leo Buerger the endangiitis obliterans is also called Winiwarter-Buerger's disease.

education and profession

He completed his medical degree in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1870. He then worked as a surgical assistant at the Vienna University Clinic with Theodor Billroth and later took over the management of the surgical department of the Crown Prince Rudolf Children's Hospital . The habilitation as a private lecturer followed in 1876 and in 1878 he accepted a position as a full professor of surgery at the University of Liège . He later acquired Belgian citizenship. He led a withdrawn and modest life in Belgium until the beginning of the First World War in 1914.

power

Billroth considered Winiwarter to be one of his best students, who had carried out the esophagus , larynx and stomach operations together with him in animal experiments. As an academic teacher, von Winiwarter was very much appreciated in Liège. Here, however, he hardly had time to continue his experimental work. He now mainly devoted himself to the surgical treatment of various forms of cancer . Winiwarter first introduced an effective manual clinical lymphatic drainage protocol for the treatment of lymphedema .

He was best known for his work on the 9th – 16th centuries. Edition of Billroth's standard work General surgical pathology and therapy (Berlin 1880–1906).

Works

  • Investigations on the cochlea of ​​mammals . Seat area dk Akad. d. Knowledge 1870
  • On the pathological anatomy of the liver . Viennese med. Year 1872
  • Malignant lymphoma and lymphosarcoma . Langenbeck's Arch 1874
  • Contributions to the statistics of carcinomas . Stuttgart 1878
  • For biliary tract surgery . Festschrift in honor of Billroth 1892
  • The surgical diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue . Stuttgart 1893
  • The Doctrine of Surgical Operations and Surgical Dressings . Stuttgart 1895

literature

personal data
SURNAME Winiwarter, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Belgian surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1917
Place of death Liege