Ernst Küster (surgeon)

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Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster

Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster (born November 2, 1839 in Kalkofen auf Wollin , † April 19, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German surgeon .

biography

Küster passed his Abitur in Stettin and studied in Bonn (where he joined the Frankonia fraternity in 1859 ), Würzburg and Berlin . After receiving his doctorate in 1863, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Guard Artillery Regiment from 1864 to 1865 .

In 1866 he got a job as an assistant at the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin , but soon afterwards he had to interrupt his work because of the participation in the campaign against Bohemia . In 1867 he went to the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin and became a student and assistant to Robert Friedrich Wilms . During the Franco-Prussian War he worked in field hospitals and in the headquarters of III. Army Corps in Versailles .

From 1871 he headed the barracks hospital at Invalidenpark and the surgical department in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital . In 1875 Küster qualified as a professor for surgery and in 1879 became an associate professor. After the Empress Augusta repeatedly prevented him from going to universities abroad, after her death in 1890 he accepted an appointment as professor of surgery at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In his inaugural speech in 1895 as Rector of the University of Marburg with the title “ Nursing in the past and present, ” Küster advocated recognizing lay nursing as equal to denominational nursing.

Ernst Küster was one of the pioneers of the antiseptic surgery developed by Joseph Lister in Germany. He developed a method of complete wound closure. He also made important contributions to kidney surgery , the treatment of suppurations in rigid-walled body cavities and ear, nose and throat surgery.

Violent arguments in the Marburg faculty led to his early retirement in 1907. He returned to Berlin as a surgeon without teaching obligations and worked as a specialist writer in Charlottenburg . During the First World War he supported the Berlin hospitals as a consulting surgeon.

membership

Küster took part in the founding congress of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH) in 1872. The 1903 annual meeting elected him chairman for a year. In 1922 he became an honorary member of the society.

During his time in Marburg, Küster represented his university in the Prussian mansion .

Publications

  • Surgery of the kidneys, ureters and adrenal glands . Enke, Stuttgart 1896-1902, 2 vol.
  • Basics of general surgery and surgical technology for doctors and students . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1908
  • History of modern German surgery. Edited by P. von Bruns , Enke, Stuttgart 1915 (= Neue Deutsche Chirurgie , 15).
  • Nursing past and present . Speech given when the rectorate took over at the University of Marburg on October 13, 1895, NG Eiwert, Marburg 1895.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 284.
  2. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Küster at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Ernst Küster , in: Hubert Kolling (Hrsg.): Biographical lexicon for nursing history "Who was who in nursing history," Vol. 6 hpsmedia Hungen 2012, pp. 164 + 165.
personal data
SURNAME Sexton, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Küster, Ernst Georg Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Lime kiln
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1930
Place of death Berlin