Erich Martini (surgeon)

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Erich Martini

Erich Karl Wilhelm Georg Martini (born April 10, 1843 in Schwerin , † February 12, 1880 in Hamburg ) was a German surgeon .

Live and act

Grave of Erich Martini in Jacobipark in Hamburg-Eilbek , the former cemetery of St. Jacobi
"Erich Wilhelm Carl Georg Martini", Ohlsdorf cemetery

Martini was born in Schwerin as the second of five sons of a lawyer. He grew up in Rostock and studied medicine at the local university . His academic teachers included Carl Bergmann , Gustav Simon and Theodor Thierfelder . Following a study trip to Prague , Vienna and Berlin , he took on a position as an assistant doctor in the surgical department at St. Georg Hospital in February 1869 . In the fall of 1871 he left the clinic and initially settled in Hamburg. In 1876 he took over the deputy clinic management, a year later in November the directorate of the surgical clinic at St. Georg Hospital . He died in 1880 at the age of only 36 of sepsis , which he developed as a result of an injury sustained during an autopsy .

Honor

A tomb was erected for him in the St. Jacobi cemetery . In memory of Erich Martini, friends, colleagues and patients founded the Dr. Martini Foundation in 1880, which has awarded the Dr. Martini Prize for the promotion of young scientists every year since 1883 .

In the Ohlsdorf cemetery is on the collective grave memorial plate Allg. St. Georg Hospital of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery reminds of Erich Karl Wilhelm Georg Martini, among others.

A street in Hamburg-Eppendorf is also named after Erich Martini.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Erich Martini's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

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personal data
SURNAME Martini, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martini, Erich Karl Wilhelm Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1880
Place of death Hamburg