Alfred Gebauer

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Alfred Gebauer (born June 17, 1909 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia , † January 27, 2005 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German internist and radiologist . He was a pioneer in X-ray diagnostics.

Life

Gebauer was born the son of a jeweler. After graduating from high school in Groß Strehlitz , he studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and at the University of Innsbruck from 1929 to 1934 . In 1934 he passed his state examination at the University of Breslau .

From 1934 to 1935 he was an intern at the Physiological Institute in Breslau. In 1936, he was in Wroclaw with the work studies on the construction of the hanging belly in pregnant Doctor of Medicine doctorate . From 1936 to 1937 he was at the Pharmacological Institute in Königsberg, East Prussia, and until the 1940s he was a research assistant at the Medical University Clinic in Breslau with the gastrointestinal specialist Kurt Gutzeit . At Gutzeit he was involved in the field of gastroenterology , and the semi-flexible endoscope was developed in Wroclaw during this time . The internist training was interrupted by military service as a medical officer in Russia.

After the end of the Second World War, Alfred Gebauer went to Erlangen as senior physician and head of the X-ray department of the Medical University Hospital . He brought with him the experience of endoscopic procedures ( gastroscopy , laparoscopy , thoracoscopy , bronchoscopy ) and was significantly involved in the reconstruction of German medicine and radiology in post-war Germany. Together with Siemens, he developed the transversal tomography technique , with which the topographical assignment of compact changes was possible, especially in the thoracic area - according to current estimates, a preliminary stage to computed tomography . Gebauer documented the scientific findings in several books. In 1949 he completed his habilitation in Erlangen for internal medicine and radiology on the subject of the transversal slice method . In 1950, Gebauer received the Schleussner-Röntgen-Preis, which the Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft, a foundation of the Frankfurt entrepreneur Carl Adolf Schleussner, has been awarding since 1930, for a work investigating a method for producing horizontal body slice images .

In 1953 Gebauer moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he became head of radiology at the Clinic for Internal Medicine and the Polyclinic. In 1956 he was appointed associate professor at Goethe University.

He continued his collaboration with Siemens and developed technology based on image intensifier television technology. The use of image diagnostics revolutionized X-ray diagnostics .

1978 retired after two extensions at the age of 69. Nevertheless, he continued to be involved in the Frankfurt X-Ray Evening , a respected training institution.

He left behind Maria Baumert, with whom he had been married since 1938; the marriage resulted in four children. Alfred Gebauer had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Palatia Marburg since 1929 and later also of the KDSt.V. Moeno-Franconia Frankfurt am Main, both in CV .

Fonts

  • Alfred Gebauer, Alfred Schanen: The transversal layer method . Thieme, Stuttgart 1955.
  • Alfred Gebauer, Eugen Muntean, Ernst Stutz, Heinz Vieten : The X-ray layer image . Thieme, Stuttgart 1959.
  • Alfred Gebauer: The diagnostic pneumoperitoneum . Thieme, Stuttgart 1959.
  • Alfred Gebauer, Josef Lissner , Ottfried Schott: The X-ray television . Thieme, Stuttgart 1965.

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personal data
SURNAME Gebauer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2005
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe