Alfred Dührssen
Alfred Jacobus Dührssen (born March 23, 1862 in Heide , Duchy of Holstein , † October 11, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German gynecologist .
Life
Dührssen studied at the University of Marburg , where he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia , as well as at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education , where he became a member of the Corps Suevo-Borussia and received his doctorate in 1884 ( on chronic parotitis with consecutive salivary swelling together with a compilation the previously published cases of Sialodochitis Stenoniana and Whartoniana ). Then he was a military doctor in Berlin and assistant to his uncle Rudolf Dohrn at the women's clinic in Königsberg . In 1886 he became Adolf Gusserow's assistantat the Berlin Obstetrical Polyclinic. In 1888 he became a midwifery teacher and completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin . In 1895 he was appointed professor and in 1892 founded a private clinic for gynecological diseases and obstetrics. He left the university faculty in 1913.
Alfred Dührssen died in Berlin in 1933 at the age of 71. His grave is in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend .
The doctor's granddaughter was the well-known doctor, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Annemarie Dührssen (1916–1998).
Merits
Dührssen is considered to be one of the founders of modern surgical gynecology . He became known for his vaginal surgical methods, including the vaginal caesarean section . In 1919, Dührssen proposed setting up outpatient clinics. From the point of view of hygiene, he called for institutional births to be ideally offered to every pregnant woman. He also suggested that every pregnant woman should present to the institution four weeks before the due date in order to identify possible birth defects or abnormalities before the birth. Here he also saw advantages for the education of students.
Publications
- Obstetric vademecum for students and doctors (1890)
- The vaginal caesarean section - together with a report on a successful vaginal extirpation of the ruptured uterus immediately post partum. (1896)
- On the cure and prevention of women's diseases (1900)
- The New Obstetrics (1923)
Journal articles (selection)
In: The Socialist Doctor .
- Vote against § 218. 7th year (1931), issue 4 (April), pp. 99-100 digitized
literature
- Dührssen, Alfred. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 352.
- Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking physicians , Volume 1, p. 137, Munich 2002.
- D. Korth: Dührssen, Jakob Alfred . In: Olaf Klose (ed.): Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon, Vol. 1, Neumünster: Wachholtz 1970, pp. 130-131.
- Manfred Stürzbecher: Dührssen, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 158 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Sabine Major: Dissertation on the history of out-of-hospital obstetrics in the GDR
- Literature by and about Alfred Dührssen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 472.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dührssen, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dührssen, Alfred Jacobus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gynecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | pagan |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1933 |
| Place of death | Berlin |