August Martin (physician)

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August Eduard Martin

August Eduard Martin (born July 14, 1847 in Jena , † November 26, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

Life

Martin was born on July 14, 1847 as the son of Eduard Arnold Martin , a professor of obstetrics, in Jena. Martin studied medicine in his hometown and in Berlin, where he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the Burgkeller in 1866 , received his gynecological training from his father at the Berlin University Women's Clinic, to which Eduard Martin has since been appointed, and received his doctorate in 1870 and 1871 him and Karl Schroeder . In 1872 Martin passed the state examination; his habilitation took place in 1876 in the same clinic.

Among other things, because of personal intrigues, Martin left the university clinic, so that he could not pursue an academic career for the time being. Therefore, Martin founded a private clinic in Berlin and offered surgical courses for doctors there as a private lecturer. In 1893 he was appointed associate professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and stayed there until 1899.

By April 1, 1899, Martin had already published 192 publications and 11 literary works. Together with Alfons von Rosthorn, he was the editor of the monthly for obstetrics and gynecology and 34 scientific publications of his colleagues. Martin is primarily regarded as a representative of vaginal surgery. He went there also areas that from today's perspective abdominal and endoscopic , as Tuboovarialabszesse , adnexal tumors, ovarian cysts and tumors . Therefore doctors from other countries came to learn from Martin.

When Martin was appointed head of the gynecological clinic in Greifswald on April 1, 1899 , he was already considered one of the "most important German gynecologists" and the "nestor of operative gynecology". He moved to Greifswald to receive his longed-for full professorship because the medical faculty there had a very good reputation at the time and he had connections to Friedrich Theodor Althoff and the Prussian finance minister. They promised Martin help to restore what they believed to be a run-down clinic. Until 1907, renovation and expansion work took place on the clinic, so that it finally doubled in size.

In 1902, Martin founded the Pomeranian Gynecological Society , which became the second gynecological society in northern Germany. From 1904 Martin got into a dispute with Althoff over the appointment of the full professor. As a result, Althoff's funding for the clinic was suspended and she was harassed. Martin asked for his release in 1907 because of this and because of his ear problems.

As a result, Martin settled again in Berlin. In 1923 he published his autobiography Werden und Wirken einer German gynecologist . He died about ten years later in Berlin.

Martin was considered an excellent surgeon who developed various gynecological and obstetric surgical methods and especially perfected the vaginal operations. For example, the "Martin operation", which enables the vaginal removal of a fibroid from the corpus uteri and the surgical control of sterility by splitting the fallopian tube , was named after him. Martin also used plastic surgeries against positional anomalies in the uterus . He also developed methods for interventions in uterine abnormalities and on the cervix . Martin introduced eight different medical tools into operative practice and they bear his name. Martin also wrote numerous works in the field of gynecology and was an honorary member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics .

literature

  • August Eduard Martin: Becoming and working of a German gynecologist. S Karger, Berlin 1924, ISBN 978-3-8055-3249-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 322.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Manfred Stürzbecher:  Martin, August Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 284 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b c August Eduard Martin (1847–1933). In: gyncoll.uni-egoswald.de. Obstetric-Gynecological Collection - Medical History, archived from the original on December 29, 2014 ; Retrieved October 5, 2013 (original website no longer available).
  4. ^ Biography, Eduard Martin. In: sammlungen.hu-berlin.de. Scientific collections at the Humboldt University of Berlin, accessed on October 10, 2013 .
  5. ^ A b c d Matthias David, Andreas D. Ebert (ed.): History of the Berlin University Women's Clinics . 1st edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-022373-6 , p. 56-57 ( book online [accessed October 5, 2013]).
  6. ↑ Honorary members: German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. In: dggg.de. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics V., accessed October 10, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Martin, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, August Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1933
Place of death Berlin