Ernst Heller (doctor)

Ernst Heller (born November 6, 1877 in Eichenwalde , Naugard district , Pomerania ; † November 2, 1964 in Leipzig ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

As the son of a landowner, Heller studied preclinical medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After the Physikum (1898) he moved to the University of Leipzig . There he met Ferdinand Sauerbruch , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. He was approved in 1901 and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He spent two years with Paul Leopold Friedrich in the surgical polyclinic. In 1903 he went with him to the Royal University of Greifswald , where Sauerbruch also came.

After Friedrich followed the call of the Philipps University of Marburg and Erwin Payr became his successor, Heller stayed in Greifswald . With him he completed his habilitation on July 28, 1908. With his boss, Heller went to the Albertus University in Königsberg as first senior physician in 1910 and to Leipzig in 1911 - still as a private lecturer . He promoted thoracic surgery and modified the gastrotomy to include an additional incision of the posterior wall and dilatation (1913). After receiving the Venia legendi in 1912 and an unscheduled extraordinary position in 1914 , he took part as a medical officer in the entire First World War. On January 1, 1920, he took over surgery as chief physician at the St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig .

In the post-war period in Germany, Hans-Georg Gadamer entrusted the 70-year-old Heller on March 18, 1947 with the provisional management of the surgical university clinic - the largest in Germany. He continued to head the St. George Clinic. In recognition of his enormous services, he was appointed full professor and clinic director on May 27, 1949 . On July 31, 1950, at the age of 73, he retired . In 1950/52 Herbert Uebermuth followed him to the chair , at St. Georg Franz Mörl .

His marriage to Carmen Scheuch in 1928 remained childless. Heller died four days before his 87th birthday.

Memberships

• National Socialist People's Welfare (since 1938)
• National Socialist Teachers' Association (until 1940)
• National Socialist German Lecturer Association (until 1943)

Honors

• National Prize of the GDR (1953)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald (1956)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig (1957)
• Honorary member of the German Society for Surgery (1957)
• Honorary member of the surgery section of the German Society for Clinical Medicine

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar (1931)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Heller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernst Heller in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig (with picture)
• Overview of Ernst Heller's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1912 to summer semester 1914)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: On the knowledge of the fibromas on the hand and fingers .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Christian Schwokowski: Memory of Ernst Heller - for the 125th birthday of a hero in surgery (Ärzteblatt Sachsen 3/2003)
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Experimental study on the role of the bacterium Coli commune in inflammatory venous thrombosis .
4. ↑ Ernst Heller: extramucosal cardio plastic in chronic Cardiospasmus with esophageal dilation . Messages from the border areas of medicine and surgery 27 (1914), pp. 141–149