Benno Baginsky

Benno Baginsky 1848-1919

Benno Baginsky (born May 24, 1848 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † November 30, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German ear, nose and throat doctor and publicist .

Life and work

Baginsky was the son of the businessman Abraham Baginsky and his wife Amalie, nee Lustig, and the younger brother of Adolf Baginsky . After graduating from high school in Ratibor, he studied medicine in Berlin. In 1870 he wrote the dissertation Syphilitische Afecctionen in the extremities and skull bones and received a doctorate . He participated as an assistant doctor in the Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871. After the end of the war he worked as a general practitioner in Berlin in 1872 and since 1880 exclusively as a doctor for laryngology , rhinology and otology . Since 1883 as a private lecturer for ear, nose and throat medicine at the University of Berlin and then in 1897 adjunct professor .

Benno Baginsky worked as an assistant doctor in Hermann Munk's physiological laboratory at the Berlin Veterinary School . In collaboration with Albert Eulenburg, he worked on the Real Encyclopedia of all medicine . One of his assistants was Jacob Katzenstein .

The function of the cochlea. 1883.
The development of the cochlea. 1886.
On the origin and central course of the acoustic nerve of the rabbit. 1886.
On the origin and the central course of the acoustic nerve of the rabbit and the cat. 1890.
About the behavior of nerve organs after cutting through the associated nerves. 1894.

Benno Baginsky . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 1 : Aachen – Boguslawski . KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-23161-X , p. 268 .
Baginsky, Benno. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
Julius Pagel : Baginsky, Benno . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Col. 78–79 .

personal data
SURNAME	Baginsky, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ear, nose and throat doctor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ratibor , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1919
Place of death	Berlin