Alfred Thinker

Portrait of Alfred Denker (1863–1941)

Alfred Friedrich Amandus Denker (born April 19, 1863 in Rendsburg , † October 21, 1941 in Munich ) was a German professor of ear, nose and throat medicine .

Live and act

Alfred Denker became a member of the Stormaria Kiel student association in 1884 (today Hansea-Stormaria in the CC ). From 1881 he was a specialist. As such, he settled in Hagen in 1891 , became head of the clinic in Erlangen in 1902 and accepted an appointment as professor in Halle in 1911 . He specialized in otology , became rector in Halle and worked in Munich towards the end of his life. His successor to the professorship in Halle was Adolf Eckert-Möbius . Denker was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten and, since 1933, a supporting member of the SS .

The Denker operation (a radical maxillary sinus operation, mostly used on tumors) is named after him. In 1905 he enabled a connection between the canine fossa and an artificial nasal window (see also opening of the maxillary sinus ) through radical bone removal in the area of the piriform aperture . However, there is a risk of neuropathic pain after the operation due to impairment of the existing nerves .

Memberships and honors

President of the International Congress of Otologists in 1912
Member of the Leopoldina (since 1907)
Honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine

Works (selection)

Alfred Denker, Wilhelm Brünings: Textbook of the diseases of the ear and the airways: Including the oral diseases. Fischer, (1912)

literature

Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 315
Alfred Kressner: Thinker, Alfred Friedrich Amandus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 601 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Alfred Denker in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Alfred Denker in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

↑ Max Mechow, Renowned CCER, Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, page 40
↑ Directors since the establishment of the clinic. university hospital Erlangen
^ European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, Volume 108, Numbers 3–4, September 1921, ISSN 0937-4477
↑ the bony, pear-shaped, anterior nostril
↑ small bony pit below the infraorbital foramen . This is where the levator anguli oris muscle originates .
↑ Nasal window is a surgically created connection from the nasal cavity to the maxillary sinus in the lower nasal passage , meatus nasi inferior, as it is also carried out in the Caldwell-Luc operation .
^ J. Thomas Lambrecht: The opening of the maxillary sinus. Switzerland. Monthly Zahnmed., Vol 108: 12/1998

personal data
SURNAME	Thinker, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thinker, Alfred Friedrich Amandus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 21, 1941
Place of death	Munich

[1] Max Mechow, Renowned CCER, Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, page 40

[2] Directors since the establishment of the clinic. university hospital Erlangen

[3] European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, Volume 108, Numbers 3–4, September 1921, ISSN 0937-4477

[4] the bony, pear-shaped, anterior nostril

[5] small bony pit below the infraorbital foramen . This is where the levator anguli oris muscle originates .

[6] Nasal window is a surgically created connection from the nasal cavity to the maxillary sinus in the lower nasal passage , meatus nasi inferior, as it is also carried out in the Caldwell-Luc operation .

[7] J. Thomas Lambrecht: The opening of the maxillary sinus. Switzerland. Monthly Zahnmed., Vol 108: 12/1998