Bernhard Fränkel

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Bernhard Fränkel

Bernhard Fränkel (born November 17, 1836 in Elberfeld , † November 11, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor.

Life

His parents were Jeanette Bock and the Bonn-born surgeon Wolfgang Bernhard Fränkel (1795-1851).

After graduating from high school in his hometown in 1855, Bernhard Fränkel studied at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . In 1856 he became a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg and the Corps Neoborussia Berlin . On July 16, 1859 he passed his medical exam and on May 23, 1860 he received his doctorate in Berlin . Even as a medical student, he was lucky enough to count himself among the students of Johannes Peter Müller , Ludwig Traube , Bernhard von Langenbeck and Rudolf Virchow . After graduating, he worked for a period at the pathological institute under Virchow. He then worked as a general practitioner from 1871 to 1875 at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital and then as a private lecturer in Berlin.

In 1887, as a professor, he took over the management of the university outpatient clinic for throat and nose patients, which he founded, more precisely in this year an independent outpatient clinic for laryngology and rhinology was set up in the apartment building at Luisenstrasse 59 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , Bernhard Fränkel was put in charge of it. In 1893 he became director of the newly founded clinic for throat and nose patients ( laryngology and rhinology ) in the Kgl. Appointed Prussian Charité . The polyclinical institute was very popular, so that in 1888 they pushed for the establishment of their own clinic. However, the medical faculty rejected this request that same year. It was also the year in which Friedrich III. died of the consequences of his larynx cancer after a controversial dispute among the attending physicians about the appropriate therapeutic approach .

He was going. Medical Councilor and Honorary Professor . From 1871 to 1875 he was the doctor in charge of the Kaiserin Augusta Hospital and from 1879 to 1888 he was a teacher at the Charité Nursing School. On May 29, 1911, Fränkel proposed the otorhinolaryngologist Gustav Killian as his successor.

His interest in medical status issues was demonstrated in a series of articles and in the co-founding of the German Association of Physicians. Fraenkel was the managing secretary of the Berlin Medical Society for 25 years .

He was editor of the Journal of Tuberculosis and Sanatoriums and the Archives of Laryngology and Rhinology . It also developed a number of medical instruments.

Bernhard Fränkel died just six days before his 75th birthday on November 11, 1911 in Berlin. He was buried on November 15 next to his wife, who had died before, in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery on Chausseestrasse . Bernhard Fränkel's grave has not been preserved.

Works

  • General diagnosis and therapy of diseases of the nose. In: Ziemssens Handbook of Special Pathology and Therapy ", Vol. 4, 2nd edition, Leipzig (1879)
  • Scrofulosis and tuberculosis. In: Gerhardt's Handbook of Childhood Diseases, (1878)
  • Frozen sections on the anatomy of the nasal cavity (1891)
  • Methods of examination of the larynx and trachea. In: Heymanns Handbuch für Laryngologie und Rhinologie (1897)
  • The throat cancer (1889)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology - Catalog of the scientific collections of the Humboldt University in Berlin
  2. ^ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples. (1831) p. 421
  3. From him comes the book: Fränkel, Wolfgang Bernhard: The confession of proselytes: The misfortune of the Jews and their emancipation in Germany. Wilhelm Hassel, Elberfeld 1841.
  4. Kösener corps lists 1910, 12/122; 208/177
  5. ^ A. Kuttner: Bernhard Fraenkel. Biography. Laryngoscope Volume 16, Issue 11, pp. 826-829, (1906)
  6. Website of the Charité, Berlin ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hno-ccm.charite.de
  7. Manfred Stürzbecher:  Fraenkel, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 310 ( digitized version ).
  8. John A. Nakhosteen, Barbara Khanavkar et al .: Atlas and textbook of thoracic endoscopy: bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy: quality assurance, diagnostics and therapy. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg (2009) ISBN 3-540-79939-7 p. 5
  9. ^ Wolf Lübbers: Historical nasal specula. On the history of rhinoscopy. ENT NEWS 2 (2009) (PDF; 235 kB)
  10. Professor Bernhard Fränkel † . In: Berliner Volks-Zeitung , November 13, 1911, evening edition, p. 2. Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial sites . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 97.