Christian Schwokowski

Christian Schwokowski

Christian Schwokowski (born February 15, 1941 in Lötzen , East Prussia ) is a German visceral surgeon , medical historian and professor emeritus at the University of Leipzig .

Life

During the Red Army's first forays into East Prussia in autumn 1944, the family fled to Saxony-Anhalt . In 1946 Schwokowski started school in Meseberg . After graduating from high school in Osterburg (Altmark) , he studied preclinical studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . After the Physikum he moved to the Medical Academy in Erfurt , where he passed the medical state examination in 1964. With a doctoral thesis with Werner Usbeck , he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . After the compulsory assistantship with Gerhart Jorns in Arnstadt , he worked for a year as a company doctor in an outpatient clinic in Bischofferode (Am Ohmberg) .

In 1965 he began training as a surgical specialist in Weimar . Already scientifically committed back then, he went to Werner Kothe at the Leipzig University Hospital in 1968 . Helmut Wolff was one of his teachers . Specialist since 1969, he mainly devoted himself to animal experimental and clinical pancreatic surgery . In 1983 he completed his habilitation. In the same year he went to the Gondar College of Medical Sciences in Ethiopia as an Associate Professor . Returned in 1984, he received the Venia legendi . As a senior physician he also worked under Kothe's successor, Siegfried Kiene . In the same year he was appointed associate professor . With Friedrich Götz ( Grevenbroich ) he performed the first endoscopic cholecystectomy in Leipzig in 1992 using a minimally invasive technique. Schwokowski was acting clinic director in 1992/93 and was appointed associate professor in 1993 and C3 professor in 1994. In the autumn of 1992 he was appointed deputy clinic director by the faculty and university management. For several years he sat on the faculty council .

In the 1980s, Schwokowski turned to the history of his clinic, which he published in a monograph with Kiene in 1988 . In 1994 and 2000 he organized symposia in honor of the previous professors Friedrich Trendelenburg and Herbert Uebermuth . Schwokowski retired in 2006 and was a member of the examination committee of his specialty at the Saxon State Medical Association until 2009. In 2009 he was still operating in the Dölau Clinic (Halle) . As in his 2015 book, he deals with the history of surgery at Leipzig University in readings and lectures.

Publications

• Friedrich Trendelenburg 1844–1924: Reminiscences of his 150th birthday . Steinkopff Verlag, Darmstadt 1994.
• as editor with Manfred Schönfelder: Herbert Uebermuth 1901–1980. Life and work of a surgeon . Lieback, Leipzig 2001.
• Friedrich Trendelenburg 1844–1924 , in: G. Wiemers (ed.): Sächsische Lebensbilder , Vol. 5., Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2003.
• Erwin Payr 1871–1946 , in: Gerald Wiemers (ed.): Sächsische Lebensbilder , Vol. 6, Saxon Academy of Sciences 2009.
• Traditional, experienced and knowledge - reflections on surgery at the University of Leipzig . Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-943-5 .

Honors

• Seal of the German Society for Surgery (2020)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The first Soviet forays into East Prussia and the flight of part of the East Prussian population in the autumn of 1944. In: Documentation of the expulsion of the Germans from East Central Europe. Retrieved May 24, 2020 (1954/2003).  
2. ↑ Dissertation: Observations and results in the clinical picture of arthrogenic ulnar paralysis
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Elke Wagler: Prof. Dr. med. habil. Christian Schwokowski on his 75th birthday (Ärzteblatt Sachsen 3/2016)
4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Animal studies after subtotal small bowel resection and surgical procedures for the treatment of short bowel syndrome
5. ↑ 175 years chair for surgery at Leipzig University . Digitized version (PDF; 3.2 MB)
6. ↑ Review (Ärzteblatt Thüringen 3/2017)
7. ^ Seal of the DGCH