Hans-Georg Boenninghaus

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Hans-Georg Boenninghaus (born April 20, 1921 in Breslau ; † May 7, 2005 in Heidelberg ) was a doctor ( ENT doctor ) and university professor .

Life

The grandfather, Georg Boenninghaus senior, and the father, Georg Boenninghaus junior, were professors of ear, nose and throat medicine in Breslau. Hans-Georg attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in his hometown , which he and his friend Dietmar Zoedler left with the Abitur in 1939. The subsequent medical studies at the Universities of Breslau and Innsbruck were interrupted by military service . But Boenninghaus was able to take his state examination in Innsbruck in May 1945 . In 1950 he became a corps bow carrier of Borussia Breslau .

He received his training as an ear, nose and throat specialist at the University of Marburg . Here he then worked as a senior physician at the university clinic. In 1953 he completed his habilitation on the subject of the multiphase course of caloric induced nystagmus . His special interest in traumatology became apparent in 1960 with his monograph The Treatment of Skull Base Fractures . In 1956 Boenninghaus moved to the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main , where he was appointed an adjunct professor. In the period that followed, he wrote his fundamental work in the field of noise-related hearing impairment. In close cooperation with W. Röser ( engineer and audiologist ), the tables that are still valid today were created as a basis for assessing hearing impairments , which were also recommended by the trade associations (Königsteiner Merkblatt 1974). From 1962 to 1965, Boenninghaus headed the ear, nose and throat clinic at the municipal clinic in Karlsruhe as chief physician . In 1965 he was offered the professorship for ear, nose and throat medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He was head of the ENT clinic here for 22 years, which was significantly expanded and modernized under his leadership. Special scientific areas of work were allergology , audiology and vestibular research . A separate department has been set up for phoniatrics and pediatric audiology . An important discovery was the so-called acoustic accident . According to him, Boenninghaus syndrome is known, a hearing impairment caused by noise.

Hans-Georg Boenninghaus was a valued teacher among his students who combined straightforwardness and assertiveness with systematics and pragmatism in his work and who was always committed to clinically oriented science. His textbook Otorhinolaryngology , which was published for the first time in 1970 by Springer Verlag, reached its 14th edition in 2012 and, as “the Boenninghaus”, is a standard work in its discipline. He was co-editor of the journal Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie and its secretary from 1982 to 1985. In 1980/81 he was President of the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery . Hans-Georg Boenninghaus was a warm-hearted, sociable and humorous person. His last years were overshadowed by the death of his wife and serious illnesses of his own.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 78 , 858. In the KCL 1981 he is listed as retired.
  2. ↑ Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Boenninghaus, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2005
Place of death Heidelberg