Bruno Valentin

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Bruno Valentin (born September 20, 1885 in Berlin ; † October 15, 1969 in Hanover ) was a German-Brazilian orthopedic surgeon , university professor and medical historian .

Life

Bruno Valentin, the son of the Jewish wholesale merchant Heinrich Valentin (1841-1925) and Helene, born Mannheimer (1850-1928), passed his Abitur in 1904 at the Königstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin. Then he devoted himself to the study of medicine at the universities of Berlin and Würzburg , in 1909 he graduated in Würzburg the medical exam and received the approbation as a doctor in 1910, he was at Eugen Enderlen to Dr. med. PhD.

Valentin began his professional career in 1909 as an assistant doctor to Moritz Borchardt at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin-Wedding . In 1911 he worked for Georg Joachimsthal at the Orthopedic Polyclinic of the Berlin Charité. After the First World War , in which he had participated as a doctor, he took up the position of assistant doctor at the University Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery in Frankfurt / Main in 1919 , where he completed his habilitation in 1922. In the same year he switched to Eugen Enderlen's assistant and private lecturer to the Surgical University Clinic in Heidelberg , where he was promoted to a non-official extraordinary professor of surgery in 1924. In the meantime he worked as an exchange assistant at the University Surgical Clinic in Utrecht in 1923 . At the end of 1924 he was appointed to succeed Peter Bades as chief physician at Annastift and state cripple physician for the province of Hanover. In addition, he taught as a private lecturer, since 1930 as a non-civil servant associate professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover .

Released in 1936 under pressure from the National Socialists , he emigrated to Brazil in 1938 , where he lived in Rio de Janeiro . Bruno Valentin, who in the meantime had acquired the Brazilian citizenship, returned to Germany in 1967. Bruno Valentin had been married to Martha Hellmann, born in 1911, with whom he had two children. He died in 1969 at the age of 84 in Hanover.

Bruno Valentin, who was a member of the German Society for Surgery , the German Orthopedic Society, the German Society for Cripple Care, the International Society for Orthopedic Surgery and, since 1962, the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , emerged as the author of important specialist publications. Among other things, Bruno Valentin received the King Ludwig Cross , an honorary doctorate in medicine from the medical faculty of the University of Tübingen and in 1965 the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

Bruno Valentin was buried in the Nackenberg district cemetery in Hanover. He left his library, including catalog and research files, to the former Orthopedic Museum in Würzburg.

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Posthumously in 2003 a path in Hermann-Löns-Park in Hanover, near his former place of work, Annastift, was named after the orthopedist.

Works

  • Contributions and comments on the prostatectomia transvesicalis suprapubica, dissertation , Meixner, Würzburg 1910
  • Orthopedics 100 years ago: the orthopedic institutes as forerunners of today's cripple homes, F. Enke, Stuttgart 1935
  • With Paul Diepgen : The history of the plaster cast, F. Enke, Stuttgart 1956
  • History of orthopedics, G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1961
  • History of foot care. Pedicuria, Chiropodie, Podologie, G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1966

literature

Archival material

Archives by and about Bruno Valentin can be found, for example

  • in the Jewish Museum Berlin as the "pedigree of Prof. Dr. Bruno Valentin (1885-1969), sent to the Society for Jewish Family Research “from around 1936 to 1941, with a list of the ancestors, inventory number 2000/505/32
  • Bruno Valentin: Chronicle 1924 - 1936. Ms. owned by Hedi Lattey, Canada

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schulze : Friedhöfe. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 193-196; here: p. 195.
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen: Valentin, Bruno. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 638; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Compare the information provided by the museum with a photo of the pedigree
  4. ↑ Valentin's daughter, she gave interviews about her life: reported in Moving West: German-Speaking Immigration to British Columbia 1945–1961. Diss. Phil. University of Victoria 2008, by Christian Lieb
personal data
SURNAME Valentin, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 1969
Place of death Mannheim