Einar Ljunggren

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Einar Ljunggren

Einar Jordan Carlsson Ljunggren (born June 16, 1896 in Trelleborg , † August 10, 1986 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish surgeon. As the Nestor of Urology in Sweden, he represented his country in European professional societies for decades.

Life

Ljunggren's father, Carl August Ljunggren, was a hospital doctor in Trelleborg and suffered from kidney tuberculosis. Einar Ljunggren studied medicine at Stockholm University . He completed his surgical training from 1922 in Stockholm at the Ersta Hospital (1923-1927) and with his uncle Einar Key at the Maria Hospital (1928-1933). To thank them for their decades of training in Germany, the Swedish doctors invited the Association of Northwest German Surgeons to their summer conference in Lund in 1927. Ljunggren gave his first lecture in a foreign language at that time. He received his doctorate in 1930 with a urological doctoral thesis. From 1932 to 1937 he was a lecturer in surgery at the Karolinska Institute. He was a senior physician at the hospitals in Sundsvall (1933–1936) and Sollefteå (1936–1945). At the Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg since 1945, in 1950 he hosted and chaired the 83rd meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in Gothenburg. From 1952 to 1962 he was also professor of surgery at the University of Gothenburg . It was only after his retirement that the first chairs for urology were established in Sweden : Gustav Giertz at the Karolinska University Hospital (1968), Gösta Jönsson at the University of Lund (1969) and Lennart Andersson at the University of Umeå (1970). Ljunggren died in the same year as Carl Erich Alken , the nestor of urology in Germany.

Like no other, Ljunggren connected the Scandinavian with the German urologists. For over 50 years he never missed a congress of the German Society for Urology. He was a member of the international surgeon and urologist associations, the German and Swedish Society for Surgery and the Belgian, British, German, French, Italian and Austrian Society for Urology. In 1958 he was accepted into the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg . On August 16, 1964, he retired. In 1968 his memoirs appeared. In June 1977, at the age of 81, Ljunggren attended the 119th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons, one of the first in the new Medical Academy in Lübeck .

Honors

literature

  • Axel Widstrand (red.): Svenska läkare i ord och picture. Uppsala 1939 ( digitized ).
  • Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling: Germanophilia or Germanophobia? Contacts between Scandinavia and Germany in the field of urology 1930-1960. In: Dirk Schultheiss , Friedrich H. Moll (Ed.): Urology under the Swastika. Davidsfonds (European Association of Urology) o. J. (2017), pp. 212–219, here: Einar Ljunggren and his contacts with German colleagues, bridging three political eras. Pp. 216-218.
  • Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder , Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017. Kaden, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , p. 206 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Negotiation report of the German Society for Urology: 22nd meeting (1968)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Studies on the clinical picture and prognosis of Grawitz's kidney tumors. At the same time a contribution to the question of the genesis of hematuria .
  3. ↑ N. Hansson, T. Halling: Einar Ljunggren and his contacts with German colleagues, bridging three political eras .
  4. ↑ En kirurg ser tillbaka [A surgeon looks back]. Stockholm 1968.
  5. ↑ The Surgeons' Smile (1977)
  6. ↑ Honorary members of the German Society for Urology
personal data
SURNAME Ljunggren, Einar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ljunggren, Einar Jordan Carlsson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish urologist, university professor in Gothenburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Trelleborg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1986
Place of death Gothenburg