Arthur Barth (surgeon)

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Arthur Barth

Arthur Barth (born February 20, 1858 in Untergreißlau , Province of Saxony , † May 7, 1927 in Schwerin ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Barth's father Franz Barth was a general practitioner in Naumburg (Saale) . After selling the doctor's office , he ran farming on his property. Arthur Barth spent a carefree childhood there. His first teachers were the governess, a primary school teacher, and his father. In 1868 he came to the school in Weißenfels and in 1870 to the Pforta state school . After graduating from high school, he began to study medicine at the University of Jena in 1877 . He moved to the Philipps University of Marburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . After the state examination in 1882 in Jena he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In Dresden and Vienna he completed a course in obstetrics . He got to know surgery “in countless clinics all over Germany”.

In 1883/84 he was a volunteer assistant with Ernst Küster at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital in Berlin. In 1884/85 he worked at the Gdansk City Hospital. He then returned to the Augusta Hospital as an assistant doctor. When Küster accepted the call to Marburg in 1890 , Barth followed him as first assistant. In 1891 he became deputy clinic director. He completed his habilitation in 1892 and became a private lecturer . Appointed associate professor in 1896 , he returned to Danzig in the same year . For more than 25 years he was chief physician and director of the surgical clinic of the city hospital, from which the Medical Academy Gdansk emerged in 1935 . Barth was a recognized specialist in joint, abdominal and jaw surgery; but his main interest was kidney and prostate surgery . In 1907 he and Ludwik Rydygier were among the founders of the German Society for Urology .

He was married to Charlotte geb. Nebelthau , daughter of Friedrich Nebelthau . With her he had five well-off children. When the First World War broke out , the two sons were drafted into the German Army and sent to the war fronts . The son Helmut Barth fell. From the Supreme Army Command as an advisory surgeon to the XVII. Ordered the Army Corps (German Empire) , Barth also came to the fronts in Poland and France. Badly hit by the loss of his son and the outcome of the war, Barth contracted flu-like myocarditis . Therefore, at the age of 66, he had to give up surgery. He moved to Schwerin, where he wrote his memoirs for the family and died at the age of 69. He was cremated in Lübeck ; the whereabouts of the funeral urn is unknown.

His daughter Ingeborg was the wife of General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach . One son was Eberhard Barth . Christian A. Barth is a grandson.

corps

Arthur Barth as a high school student

After his brothers Max Barth and Richard Barth (1855–1885), Barth was the third member of his family to become a member of the Corps Franconia Jena . On Dec. 9, 1877 recipiert , he was active throughout the study. He was only too happy to return to Jena from the other universities when his corps needed him because of a lack of young people. He clung to the first , twice the second, and three times the third batch . From his memoirs, his wife pulled out the section about his university days. It is printed in the Franconia corps report to Jena WS 1930/31. Friedrich Schäfer, head of the Ev. Regional Church of Thuringia:

"The Corps owes him an inestimable amount and, on the occasion of the 100th Foundation Festival, honored his exceptional services by awarding him honorary membership."

- FS

Honors

Fonts

  • About histological findings after bone implantation . In: Archive for clinical surgery 46 (1893), pp. 409-417
  • About osteoplasty in a histological way . In: Archive for clinical surgery 48 (1894), pp. 466–477
  • About artificial production of bone tissue . In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift 33 (1896), pp. 8-11
  • The Origin and Growth of the Free Joint Bodies , 1898
  • My university days , 1931 (posthumous)

literature

  • Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, col. 98-99.
  • Maximilian von Pfuel: Arthur Barth . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 44 (1927), No. 4, p. 115 f.
  • Rüdiger Döhler , Thaddäus Zajaczkowski and Jörg Wiesner: Great man of the second row - the Danzig surgeon Arthur Barth . Chirurgische Allgemeine Volume 18, Issue 9 (2017), pp. 436–439.

Web links

Commons : Arthur Barth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: About the ratio of the transverse diameter of the pelvic narrow to that of the pelvic entrance
  2. ↑ a b c Th. Zajaczkowski (2013)
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About the histological processes involved in the healing of kidney wounds and the question of replacing kidney tissue
  4. ↑ Festschrift 1921 (GoogleBooks)
  5. ↑ The family's obituary , Mecklenburgische Zeitung, May 7, 1927
  6. ↑ GoogleBooks
  7. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 124/439
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Ernst Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor in Gdansk
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Untergreißlau , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1927
Place of death Schwerin , Mecklenburg