Alfred Güttich

Alfred Güttich

Alfred Johannes Fritz August Güttich (born April 12, 1883 in Hecklingen , Anhalt , † January 10, 1948 in Cologne ) was a German university professor for ear, nose and throat medicine .

Life

Alfred Güttich received his medical training in Dresden, Frankfurt and Berlin. His teachers included Georg Schmorl , Gustav Spiess and Carl Adolf Passow . In the latter, he completed his habilitation at the Charité in 1917 . In 1926 he followed a call to the Prussian University of Greifswald . Two years later he was appointed to the University of Cologne . When he took office in Cologne, Güttich had received verbal approval from the mayor at the time, Konrad Adenauer, to build a new university ENT clinic. However, this commitment was not implemented until 1961 under Güttich's successor. At least Güttich managed to renovate and enlarge the old buildings and set up larger laboratories. In 1941 the clinic received an X-ray department for ENT applications, which was granted to him to avert a call to Bonn. A department for voice and speech medicine was also set up under Alfred Güttich. Güttich's most important students include the ordinaries Ernst Müller (Kiel), Hermann Frenzel (Göttingen), Leonhard Seiferth (Cologne) as direct successor to A. Güttich and the chief physicians Karl-Heinz Preusse (Wiesbaden) and Julius Löer (Cologne-Mülheim), Honorary member of the ENT Society.

Güttich had been married to Elfriede Johanna Erxleben since 1919. The marriage had two children. His son Helmut later followed in his father's footsteps, trained with Hermann Frenzel in Göttingen and qualified as a professor with Alexander Herrmann in Munich.

Alfred Güttich died in 1948 at the age of 64 in the Cologne University Clinic as a result of colon cancer.

Scientific achievements

Alfred Güttich's scientific interest lay primarily in the field of physiology and the clinical picture of the organ of equilibrium . He made decisive contributions to unraveling the difficult connections between the ear and the central nervous system. His observations and research results on this topic led to great expansions of the state of knowledge at that time and found their way into a number of standard works of ENT medicine. He learned the hearing-preserving surgical treatment of cerebellar bridge angle tumors and acoustic neuromas via an access beyond the inner ear labyrinth from Herbert Olivecrona in Stockholm and also introduced it in Germany, where he was the only German otologist who could perform this procedure for years . He also perfected the surgical removal of pituitary adenomas through the nose. Güttich was considered one of the most accomplished surgeons in his field and was happy to go his own way there.

Honors

In 1940 Alfred Güttich was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

• Archive for ear, nose and larynx medicine as well as the adjacent areas (editor and co-author). Jumper. 1935-1945.
• Neurology of the ear labyrinth . Thieme. 1944.
• Brief textbook on diseases of the ear, nose and throat . Thieme, 1948.

literature

• Konrad Fleischer, Hans Heinz Naumann: Academic training centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology . Springer 1996, ISBN 978-3-642-80066-5 , pages 187-188.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death certificate no. 146 from January 12, 1948, registry office Cologne I. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved September 29, 2018 . 
2. ^ LB Seiferth: A. Güttich on the 60th birthday . In: Archive for ear, nose and larynx studies . 1943, p. 107-109 .
3. ^ Member entry by Alfred Güttich at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 1, 2018.