August Socin
August Socin (born February 21, 1837 in Vevey , † January 22, 1899 in Basel ) was a Swiss surgeon.
Life
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Socin was a son of the evangelical pastor August Socin and his wife Jeanne Frédérique Elise. Johannot. He studied medicine in Basel and Würzburg , where he also received his doctorate in 1857. After further specialist surgical training in Prague , Vienna and later in Paris and London , he completed his habilitation in Basel in 1861. In 1859 he became an assistant doctor at the Bürgerspital Basel and in 1861 took over the management of the surgical clinic in Basel. Already in 1862 he was appointed associate professor and in 1864 full professor of surgery at the University of Basel . In 1866 he worked in the Austrian hospital of Verona and August to November 1870 in a military hospital in Karlsruhe . It was during this time that his work on his war surgery experience was created .
He turned down a call to the surgical university clinic in Würzburg , but taught all his life at the university in Basel. It was here that he achieved his special significance by introducing decisive reforms to improve the quality of student education in his department and, for the first time, introducing antiseptic wound treatment in the first years of his activity. Due to his experience in hospitals and the treatment of war wounds, he introduced various surgical innovations and influenced the surgery for radical operations on hernias , resections and gastrointestinal operations for anastomoses through surgical modifications. Socin was less the author of numerous publications than the practitioner who attached great importance to the successful education of his students.
In Basel, the Socinstrasse, which runs from the Spalentor to the Brausebad tram station , and where the Swiss Tropical Institute and a student residence are located, is named after August Socin. He died of typhus . His grave is on the Wolfgottesacker .
Fonts (selection)
- War surgery experience, gathered in Carlsruhe 1870 and 1871 (= surgical and pathological-anatomical contributions to war medicine. Vol. 1). FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1872 ( digitized version ).
- The diseases of the prostate. In: Franz von Pitha , Theodor Billroth (Red.): Handbook of general and special surgery. Volume 3, department 2, delivery 8, half 2, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875 ( digitized ).
literature
- Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Vol. 2, Munich 2002.
- Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein : Socin, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 375-377.
- Samuel Meier: August Socin (1837–1899), life and work of the Basel surgeon. Basel 1985.
- Julius Pagel (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the 19th century. Berlin 1901.
- Hubert Steinke : Socin, August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Gallery of outstanding doctors. In: Munich Medical Weekly . Vol. 89 (1899), supplement.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hubert Steinke : Socin, August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Adolf Lukas Vischer: Professor Dr. med. Fritz Suter (1870–1961), in: Basler Stadtbuch, Christoph Merian Foundation 1963
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Socin, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vevey |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1899 |
| Place of death | Basel |