Burkhard Kommerell

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Burkhard Kommerell (around 1936)

Burkhard Friedrich Kommerell (born April 12, 1901 in Strasbourg ; † June 5, 1990 in Stuttgart ) was a German doctor for internal medicine and radiologist .

Burkhard Friedrich Kommerell should not be confused with the gastroenterologist Burkhard Kommerell (1925–1995).

Life

Burkhard Kommerell belongs to the Tübingen line of the Kommerell family. He was the only son of the civil engineer Otto Kommerell (1873–1967) and his wife Martha geb. Kirn (born July 7, 1872). He was in Strasbourg, in what was then the German Empire belonging Alsace born when his father since 1900 Regierungsbaumeister at the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine was. Burkhard Kommerell spent his childhood in Strasbourg until the family moved to Berlin in 1908.

From 1910 to 1920 Kommerell attended the Schiller-Gymnasium in Berlin . He then studied at the University of Tübingen medicine . In the summer semester of 1920 he joined the Igel Academic Association in Tübingen . He also studied temporarily at the University of Munich . In 1925 he put in Tübingen the state exam and was with a dissertation titled eye disorders in encephalitis lethargica for MD PhD.

Luise Kommerell b. Grüneisen (around 1936)

Kommerell then worked in several cities as an assistant doctor at clinics specializing in pathology and internal medicine : Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Occupational Physiology in Berlin under Edgar Atzler , Medical Clinic of Leipzig University under Paul Morawitz , Charité Berlin Internal Clinic under Richard Siebeck .

In 1931/32 he spent six months researching at the research laboratory for thyroid metabolism at the Tufts School of Medicine in Boston , USA .

From 1932 to 1934 Kommerell worked in the Dortmund Municipal Hospitals under Hans Heinrich Berg (1889–1968), who was considered the leading diagnostic radiologist of the time. During this time he married Luise Grüneisen (born August 23, 1909 in Berlin ; † October 8, 2009 in Saarbrücken ) in Berlin on October 1, 1932, which was soon to become his residence for a long time . In 1934 Kommerell was appointed head of the radiological department at the Charité's 1st Medical Clinic . There he noticed a vascular anomaly of the main artery in a patient , and in 1936 he was the first to describe it in a living patient. This anomaly was later named Kommerell's diverticulum after him.

On February 12, 1936 , Kommerell completed his habilitation in Berlin with a thesis on X-ray diagnostics of the gallbladder (CO 2 -containing gallstones , self-dissolution of stones).

At the beginning of World War II Kommerell worked in hospitals of the Wehrmacht in occupied Poland : first in Łódź , later in Radom . In 1941 he was appointed adjunct professor of radiology at the Ludolf Krehl Clinic in Heidelberg , where he stayed until the end of the war.

In 1946 Kommerell opened a practice in Heidelberg , but in 1950 he gave it up again to take over the position of head of the radiological department of the AOK in Stuttgart . He held the position at AOK Stuttgart until 1963 when he was released into retirement. He continued to live in Stuttgart until his death in 1990. Under the pseudonym "Drusus Lleremmok" he wrote and published poems and poetry collections such as B. "Kleines Liebesbrevier" and "Propfzieher" and devoted himself intensively to piano playing and composition.

Publications

Burkhard F. Kommerell was involved in around 50 medical specialist publications.

  • Displacement of the esophagus by an abnormally extending subclavian artery (Arteria lusoria) . In: "Advances in the field of X-rays and nuclear medicine" 54, 1936, pp. 590-595
  • The problem of gallstone formation from the point of view of radiology . In: "Klinische Wochenschrift" 21, 1942, pp. 963–969 ( doi : 10.1007 / BF01783911 )

children

Kommerell had four children, all of whom were born in Berlin.

  • Hadumoth (born May 20, 1934)
  • Guntram (born May 26, 1935)
  • Luithard (born February 18, 1937)
  • Landfried (born June 7, 1941)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Burkhard Kommerell (gastroenterologist)
  2. ↑ Otto Kommerell: Family Chronicle Kommerell ... , P. 181/182
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Otto Kommerell: Familienchronik Kommerell ... , p. 186
  4. ↑ a b c d e Jacques AM van Son; Igor E. Konstantinov: Burckhard F. Kommerell ...

literature

  • Jacques A. M. van Son; Igor E. Konstantinov: Burckhard F. Kommerell and Kommerell's Diverticulum . In: "Texas Heart Institute Journal" 29, 2, 2002, pp. 109-112
  • Otto Kommerell: Family Chronicle Kommerell. Family tree with 79 pictures and 15 tables drawn up between 1915–1942 , Frankfurt a. M.: Kramer 1943
personal data
SURNAME Kommerell, Burkhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kommerell, Burkhard Friedrich (full name); Kommerell, Burckhard (incorrect spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor for internal medicine and radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH June 5th 1990
Place of death Stuttgart