Ernst Fürstenheim

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Ernst Fürstenheim (born August 18, 1836 in Koethen , † July 2, 1904 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and important urologist . He carried the title of Privy Medical Council .

Life

Ernst Fürstenheim studied medicine in Berlin, Würzburg, Paris and London . In 1859 he became a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg . In 1861 he received his doctorate in Berlin and founded the first urological practice there in 1863. As a result, he modified the Désormeaux endoscope and used it for the first time in Germany. The Berlin urologist Carl Posner was his assistant.

literature

  • Holger G. Dietrich: Ernst Fürstenheim (1836-1904) and the introduction of his self-developed endoscope into the first urological practice in Berlin . In: Martin Skopec (Red.): The Vienna Endoskopiemuseum. Opening symposium 1996 (publications of the International Nitze-Leiter Research Society for Endoscopy; Vol. 1). Literas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85429-146-9 , pp. 96-100.

Individual evidence

  1. Central Gazette for the Diseases of the Urinary and Sexual Organs , Vol. 15 (1904), Google online , accessed on October 11, 2011
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 208 , 214
  3. Julius Pagel : Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Physicians of the Nineteenth Century . Verlag Karger, Basel 1989, ISBN 3-8055-4817-6 , Sp. 570 (reprint of the Berlin 1901 edition, online , accessed on October 11, 2011)
  4. Rolf Winau (ed.): Technology and medicine . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-18-400864-9 , p. 144 ( Google books , accessed October 11, 2011)