Burghard Breitner

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Burghard Breitner, sculpture in the Mattsee Abbey Museum
Memorial plaque on the birthplace

Burghard Breitner (born June 10, 1884 in Mattsee ; † March 28, 1956 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian surgeon, university professor and author.

Life

Breitner was born the son of the writer and archaeologist Anton Breitner . He attended elementary school in Mattsee and completed high school in Salzburg . He was interested in literature and adored the writer Joseph Victor von Scheffel . During his high school years, his first poem appeared in the Graz student magazine Jungbrunnen under the pseudonym Bruno Sturm .

In 1901 he began studying medicine in Graz. He became the dramaturge of the city theater and successfully staged a number of plays, vacillating between a career as a writer or a doctor. He wrote several plays and writings under the pseudonym mentioned. His works have been forgotten, the style is bombastic for our current feeling. In 1904/05 he passed the first Rigorosum , then the first half of the one-year military service with the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger followed . With the beginning of the clinical semester, he finally turned to studying medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the University of Vienna . Since he passed all exams with distinction, he completed the medical degree sub auspiciis Imperatoris .

On October 1, 1909, Burghard Breitner was admitted to the First Surgical University Clinic in Vienna as an operating child. He took part in the First Balkan War in 1912/13 and acquired his first knowledge of war surgery. In 1913 he became an assistant doctor to Anton von Eiselsberg . The beginning of the First World War awakened Breitner's enthusiasm for war. He took a train to the front to take part in the war. So he took part in the offensive, which ended catastrophically, and in the first weeks of the war he was taken prisoner by Russia , where he worked as a camp doctor in the Nikolsk-Ussuriski POW camp north of Vladivostok . In June 1920 the camp was reached by a hospital ship so that Breitner could finish his work and return home in 1920.

Breitner was celebrated as the Angel of Siberia on his return to Austria . He became an assistant to Anton Eiselsberg and completed his habilitation in 1922. In the same year he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Graz . In 1927 he was appointed associate professor . He was not taken into account when new chairs were filled. In 1929 he became a primary physician in Vienna's Rudolf Hospital . On October 1, 1932, he became head of the Surgical University Clinic in Innsbruck . 1952/53 he was rector of the University of Innsbruck .

His ordinariate fell during a transitional period in surgery . The time in which one could master all of the surgery was coming to an end. Breitner sent employees abroad. He wrote over 200 scientific papers. He recognized the importance of blood transfusion , sexual medicine, and sports medicine . Breitner enjoyed an international reputation and was invited to numerous lectures abroad. He was best known for his work on the goiter . He  reports on his invitation to the United States (1928) in his Book of Mormons and Medicine Men  (1930).

politics

1951 election poster

Breitner had a German national orientation. He joined the NSDAP in 1932 with a low membership number . After the NSDAP was banned in the corporate state (Austria) , he resigned from the party. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he was unable to provide the great Aryan certificate because the origin of his paternal grandmother could not be clarified. He rejoined the NSDAP on December 1, 1939 and received a high membership number.

Breitner was nominated by the Association of Independents as a non-party candidate for the federal presidential election in Austria in 1951 . He achieved 15.4% of the votes and was third behind the SPÖ candidate Theodor Körner and ÖVP candidate Heinrich Gleißner .

Functions

Honors

Works

The German National Library has 47 writings.

  • Siberia. 1914-1920. Caught unharmed . Darmstadt and Leipzig 1935.
  • Mormons and medicine men . Vienna 1930.
  • Hand on two plows . Innsbruck 1958.
  • Breitner Surgical Operations , reference work. The now 14 volumes were last published on DVD in 2008 .

literature

  • Franz Daxecker : The surgeon Burghard Breitner. Poet or healer? Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 139 (2005), ISSN  0044-409X , pp. 580-585.
  • Margret Handler: The partial estate of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Burghard Breitner (1884–1956). Order, inventory, indexing, listing. Term paper as part of the basic training for employment group A - Library Documentation and Information Service, Vienna 1999.
  • Lothar Höbelt (ed.): Festschrift for Burghard Breitner. Freiheitliches Bildungswerk, Vienna 1994. (Personal history series of the Freiheitliches Bildungswerk 5).

Web links

Commons : Burghard Breitner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal Register - TFBVI | Mattsee | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Medicine Univ. Innsbruck ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chirurgie-innsbruck.at
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 51 , 55
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  5. ↑ 21 writings and dramas are listed at the end of the book.
personal data
SURNAME Breitner, Burghard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturm, Bruno (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mattsee , State of Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1956
Place of death innsbruck