Alfred Brunner (physician)

Alfred Friedrich Brunner (born August 30, 1890 in Diessenhofen , † August 17, 1972 in Zurich ) was a Swiss surgeon .

Life

Alfred Brunner, the son of a chemist, attended the canton school in Schaffhausen . He then studied medicine at the Universities of Zurich , Lausanne , Berlin , Vienna and Munich .

From 1915 to 1918 he worked as an assistant to Ferdinand Sauerbruch in Zurich at the Cantonal Hospital . With him he switched to the surgical university clinic in Munich in 1918 as a senior physician. Here he completed his habilitation in 1923 with the groundbreaking monograph "The surgical treatment of tuberculosis" (published in 1924). In 1926 he followed a call to head physician at the St. Gallen Hospital . In this position he improved the rib shears in 1930 and the wire collet in 1933 . From 1941 to 1961, Brunner was the successor to the previous professor, Paul Clairmont, full professor at the University of Zurich and director of the University of Zurich's Surgical Clinic .

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Alfred Brunner is considered a pioneer in thoracic surgery . His methods led to significant improvements in this area of ​​operation.

Brunner was the recipient of many awards and honors, and he was also a member of the learned society of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1952).

Web links

• Thomas Böni: Brunner, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Publications by and about Alfred Brunner in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Alfred Brunner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 240.