Carl Schirren (medic, 1922)
Carl Gerhard Theodor Schirren (born June 24, 1922 in Kiel ; † April 25, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German dermatologist and andrologist .
Life
Carl Schirren came from a family of dermatologists: both his grandfather Carl Schirren and his father were dermatologists. After completing primary school, Carl Schirren attended the Kiel School of Academics from 1932 to 1940. As a senior prime minister , he was drafted into military service in 1940 at the age of 18 . He was wounded several times.
During the war, Schirren studied medicine for a semester at the University of Kiel . After the war he resumed his studies in Kiel and passed the state examination in 1951. In May 1951 he was with his dissertation on the subject of the opening of the cervical canal already at the end of pregnancy doctorate . For this he worked temporarily at the gynecological clinic of the St. Franziskus Hospital in Flensburg with Felix von Mikulicz-Radecki .
Carl Schirren completed his further training at the 2nd Medical Clinic and at the Dermatology Clinic of the Eppendorf University Clinic . In 1957 he was recognized as a specialist in skin and venereal diseases .
In the spring of 1958, Carl Schirren was on a study visit of several weeks in Great Britain . There he got to know methods of examination for infertility in men and learned surgical procedures, which he introduced after his return to Eppendorf University Hospital.
In 1960 Carl Schirren completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg in the subject of skin and venereal diseases with the habilitation thesis Experimental and clinical investigations for the diagnosis of fertility disorders in men and their therapy with hormones . After the appointment as a private lecturer , the license to teach was extended to dermatology, venereology and andrology.
On September 12, 1966, Carl Schirren was initially appointed adjunct professor by the University of Hamburg and appointed professor in 1971. Here Carl Schirren founded the Center for Reproductive Medicine in 1983 , of which he was the first director until his retirement in 1987. He strove to merge the departments for gynecology and the center for reproductive medicine under the roof of the university women's clinic, but this did not succeed.
In the course of his career, Carl Schirren devoted himself more and more to his actual specialty, andrology . He created an andrological outpatient clinic at the clinic, from which emerged the department for andrology of the university skin clinic, which he headed, and set up an andrological working group within dermatology, which later became the “andrology” section of the German Society for the Study of Fertility and Sterility e. V. (founded in 1967 at Schirren's suggestion). In 1975 Schirren founded the German Society for Andrology and became its first president.
In 1969 he founded the magazine andrologia , of which Carl Schirren was sole editor until 1973. In 1974 the journal became an organ of the International Committee for Andrology, which he oversaw until 1990 as head of the editorial board. Schirren died at the end of April 2017 at the age of 94.
Memberships
- 1967: Corresponding member of the drug commission of the German medical profession
- 1972–1978: Full member of the Drugs Commission of the German Medical Association
- 1970–1975: President of the German Society for the Study of Fertility and Sterility
- Honorary President of the German Society for Andrology
Awards
- 1961: Dr. Martini Prize of the Hamburg Dr. Martini Foundation
- 1973: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1997: Friedrich Schiller Medal from the University of Jena
- 2006: Paracelsus Medal of the German Medical Association
Namesake
- 1978: Foundation of a "Carl Schirren Lecture for Andrology" of the Pan American Congress for Andrology
Publications (selection)
- author
- Practical andrology. Diagnostics, clinical examination, sperm morphology, sperm plasma biochemistry, testicular histology, therapy. Diesbach, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89303-033-6
- 100 years of dermatology in one family. Four generations of harnesses. Schmidt and Klaunig, Kiel 1996 ISBN 3-88312-144-4
- editor
- Max Klinger , Carl Schirren . Correspondence 1910–1920. Kramer, Hamburg 1988 ISBN 3-926952-03-2
- Unfulfilled desire to have children. Practical Guide to Reproductive Medicine. 3rd edition, Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 2003 ISBN 3-7691-0410-2
literature
- Carl Schirren 75 years. Practical Dermatology (3) 1997, special supplement
- Brief portrait of the writer in Schleswig-Holstein eV ( Memento from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. med. Carl Schirren. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 99 (38) 2002, A 2505 (PDF file; 46 kB)
- Paracelsus Medal for Prof. Dr. med. Carl Schirren - laudation
- Gerhard Bettendorf (Ed.): On the history of endocrinology and reproductive medicine. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1995, ISBN 978-3-642-79153-6 , pp. 485-487 (autobiography).
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Schirren in the catalog of the German National Library
- International Journal Andrologia .
- German Society for Andrology eV
- Carl Schirren: Andrology experienced 50 years. (PDF file; 1.1 MB; pp. 68–72)
- Hans-Christian Schuppe , Hermann M. Behre , Frank-Michael Köhn , Wolf-Bernhard Schill : Obituary Prof. Dr. med. Carl Schirren. German Society for Andrology
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Gerhard Theodor Schirren: Obituary notice. In: The Island Messenger. May 6, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schirren, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schirren, Carl Gerhard Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dermatologist and andrologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 2017 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |