Alkmar von Kügelgen

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Alkmar von Kügelgen (1965)

Alkmar von Kügelgen (born January 12, 1911 in Wyk auf Föhr , † April 9, 1975 in Kiel ) was a German anatomist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Dresden , v. Kügelgen from 1930 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Medicine . He was a fellow of studienstiftung and famulierte at Alfred Benninghoff , Kurt Goerttler and Robert Schroeder . He was a medical intern with Alfred Brauchle in Dresden, in the Niebüll district hospital and with Robert Schröder, who was appointed to the gynecological chair at the University of Leipzig. Since the position was unpaid and he had to give up the examinations on the ovary , he switched to Goerttler in autumn 1938, who had been given leave of absence from the University of Hamburg to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg at Bernhard Rust's request . His work on the functional anatomy of the fallopian tube had to be done by v. Also cancel Kügelgen because he was called up as a medical officer in the army (Wehrmacht) in autumn 1939 . In 1941 he returned to Heidelberg as the only assistant for a time. Although he had yet to serve in the military hospital of Heidelberg, received his doctorate he in the same year summa cum laude for Dr. med. Recalled for medical service in the West, he was taken seriously ill and taken prisoner of war . In June 1945 he was dismissed as incapacitated by a French medical commission.

In the post-war period he initially helped in his father-in-law 's doctor's practice near Konstanz and in agriculture . At the same time he pushed ahead with his scientific work. With Goerttler, who had gone to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , he was able to complete it in 1952 with a habilitation . Meanwhile senior assistant, he was appointed private lecturer in 1953 and associate professor in 1958. In 1960 he followed the reputation of the University of Kiel to an associate professorship . The following year he was made a full professor. He turned down the call to RWTH Aachen that he had received in 1965 . His lectures were the best attended at the Kiel preclinical .

Was married to v. Kügelgen since 1944 with Ursula Freiin v. Stackelberg . The marriage had five children. In the I. Medical University Clinic of the CAU v. Kügelgen had a rectal carcinoma at the age of 64 .

“Doctors have fuzzy names for illnesses; but everyone knows what is meant. The lawyers have sharp definitions, but nobody understands them. "

- Alkmar v. Kügelgen

Admission to medical studies

Like no other physician, v. Resolve themselves with the problem of the criteria according to which applicants should be admitted to the study of medicine . He put character traits above high school grades. The CAU had good experiences with the process. When the Abitur became decisive on official instructions, the Central Office for the Allocation of Study Places (ZVS) was established in Dortmund . The CAU quoted v. Kügelgen's approval mode and stuck with it for a few years.

"If you want to become a capable doctor, you should have built a glider as a boy, played the cello in a chamber music line-up until early Haydn and, if possible, didn't sit down."

- Alkmar von Kügelgen

Works

  • with Barbro Kuhlo, Wolfgang Kuhlo and Klaus-Jürgen Otto: The vessel architecture of the kidney . Stuttgart 1959.
  • Introduction to preclinical medical studies at the University of Kiel . Kiel 1963.
  • Belly landing after flying high . 1969.
  • Course in anatomy on the living. Exercises on the anatomy of the musculoskeletal system . Kiel 1974.

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Anatomical Institute (UKE) ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ On the development of an embryonic heart anlage transplanted homoplastically into the spleen into a pulsating cyst in white rats. Dissertation.
  3. ↑ a b Obituary W. Bargmann
  4. ↑ Study of the Great Veins of Man. Overview of their demands and services, as well as contributions to the knowledge of their wall construction. Habilitation thesis.
  5. ↑ Medicine studies: On the wild. In: Der Spiegel. 35/1966.
personal data
SURNAME Kügelgen, Alkmar from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wyk on Föhr
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1975
Place of death Kiel