Bernd Spiessl

Gravestone in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel

Bernhard Spiessl (born July 7, 1921 in Nittenau ; † December 2002 in Wittnau , Switzerland ) was a German maxillofacial surgeon and university professor.

Life

Spiessl passed his Abitur in 1940 in Regensburg and then did military service on the Eastern Front . From 1944 to 1947 he was a prisoner of war in the Western Allies.

Spiessl then studied medicine and dentistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU), where he received his doctorate in 1952. In 1960 he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg and completed his habilitation in 1962 . In 1965 he received a call as associate professor at the newly created chair for maxillofacial surgery at the University of Basel . In 1987 he retired.

Spiessl created important foundations of modern medicine, especially in the area of ​​tumor surgery in the head and neck area. He was one of the first to propagate osteosynthesis as a treatment method in traumatology and defect surgery in the facial area.

literature

• Bernd Spiessl . In: Hans Strodel (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 19th edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich [ua] 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 3234 ( degruyter.com - constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).
• Joachim Prein: Bernd Spiessl on his 80th birthday. In: Oral and maxillofacial surgery. Vol. 5, H. 6, November 2001, pp. 339 f., Doi: 10.1007 / s100060100332 .
• Personnel. In: Oral and maxillofacial surgery. Vol. 7, H. 2, March 2003, p. 127 f., Doi: 10.1007 / s10006-003-0464-1 .
• Christina Luzi: Bernd Spiessl (1921–2002). The importance of his life's work for the development of maxillofacial surgery in Basel and in Switzerland. AO Publishing, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-905363-05-4 ( medical dissertation, University of Basel, 2006).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Spiessl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Spiessl on the website of the Bernd Spiessl Symposium