Ernst Lehnhardt

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Ernst Lehnhardt (born April 26, 1924 in Crivitz ; † December 1, 2011 in Hanover ) was a German doctor ( ENT doctor , especially audiology ) and surgeon.

Life

Lehnhardt was the son of the pastor in Crivitz and after military service in the Second World War he studied medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel with a doctorate in 1950 and then dentistry at the University of Rostock with a doctorate in 1953. He then completed his specialist training in ENT Doctor in Rostock with Walter Hesse and habilitated there in 1959 on noise-related hearing loss of the inner ear. From 1960 he was senior physician at the Charité with Konrad Fleischer in Berlin. After the Wall was built, he fled to the West in 1961 and became a senior physician with Rudolf Link at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In 1968 he became a professor at the Hanover Medical School , where he set up and managed the ENT clinic and retired in 1993.

Lehnhardt made fundamental contributions to modern hearing diagnostics (audiometry) and wrote a textbook and standard German work (originally by Bernhard Langenbeck , continued by Lehnhardt from 1970).

At the MHH he was responsible for the further development and establishment of cochlear implants in the 1980s and thus a pioneer in Germany and also in Europe as a whole (the procedure originally came from Australia). In 1990 he founded the first cochlear implant center worldwide at the MHH.

In 1965 he gave the main lecture at the German ENT congress on occupational noise damage in the inner ear and in 1984 on the clinic of inner ear hearing loss . It was from him that the term sudden hearing loss was introduced into German-language literature (1958).

From 1969 to 1973 he was chairman of the Working Group of German Audiologists and Neurootologists and from 1989 to 1993 President of the German Society for ENT Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery, of which he became an honorary member in 1996. He is the bearer of the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. He is an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Rostock and Posen and an honorary citizen of Crivitz.

He was editor of ENT magazine for over ten years . He wrote over 130 scientific publications well into old age (most recently in 2005).

Fonts

  • Practice of Audiometry , 9th edition, with Roland Laszig and contributions by Gerhard Hesse, Thieme 2009 (originally by Langenbeck, continued by Lehnhardt from the 4th edition in 1970)
  • ENT medicine for dentists , Thieme 1992
  • Clinical aspects of inner ear deafness , Springer Verlag 1986
  • The Clinic of Inner Ear Deafness, Archive Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Supplement 1, 1984, pp. 58-218
  • The occupational damage of the ear , Archive Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, Volume 185, 1965, p. 11

literature

  • Gerhard Hesse: In memory of Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Dr. hc mult. Ernst Lehnhardt. In: ENT. No. 2, 2012, p. 167 ( online , PDF; 53 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literature citation Laszig in Schnecke , No. 70 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schnecke-ci.de
  2. ↑ Obituary at the German Cochlear Implant Society ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Lehnhardt, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Crivitz
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2011
Place of death Hanover