Egbert Schmiedt

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Egbert Schmiedt (left) 1974 in Kiel

Egbert Schmiedt (born November 20, 1920 in Plauen ; † December 11, 2011 ) was a German urologist and surgeon.

Schmidt became a private lecturer in Munich in 1960, an extraordinary professor in 1966, an associate professor in 1967 and a full professor in 1968.

He was director of the urological clinic and polyclinic at the University of Munich , where he had been a full professor of urology since 1968. In 1980 he and his colleagues ( Christian Chaussy , Dieter Jocham and others) carried out the first successful extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy . The process was developed at his chair, with which he took considerable risks at the time, as the process (originally from aircraft technology under the technical direction of the Dornier company) was controversial.

From 1977 to 1989 he was editor of the magazine Der Urologe .

Honors

  • 1973: Admission to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • 1986: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Promotion Prize for European Science 1985
  • Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Urological Association (AUA) 1989
  • Medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Order of Cyril and Method of the Bulgarian Government
  • Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1988
  • Honorary member of the Chilean Society of Urology
  • Honorary diploma from the Sofia Medical Academy
  • Pro Munere Grates medal from the University of Pretoria and its honorary doctorate
  • Honorary member of the South African Society of Urology

He was president and honorary member of the German Society for Urology and received its Maximilian Nitze Medal.

He was founding president of the German Society for Laser Medicine, the Southeast German Society for Urology and the Bavarian-Austrian Urologist Association.

Fonts

  • with Donald R. Smith General Urology , Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich 1968 (translated from English and edited by Schmiedt)
  • Editor Urology , in Rudolf Zenker Surgery of the Present , Volume 6, Urban and Schwarzenberg, 1973/74

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung December 17, 2011
  2. ↑ Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009
personal data
SURNAME Schmiedt, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2011