Ernst Marquardt (doctor)

Ernst Marquardt (born February 2, 1924 - † September 28, 2016 in Ebenau , Austria ) was a German university professor and orthopedist .

Career

Ernst Marquardt studied human medicine in Kiel during the Second World War , interrupted by military service in the navy . After the end of the war he played first violin in the city orchestra in Kiel, which financed his further studies.

After his license to practice medicine, he worked at the Annastift Orthopedic Healing and Teaching Institute in Hanover under Kurt Lindemann , who was appointed professor of orthopedics in Heidelberg in 1954 and followed there in 1955.

He completed his habilitation in Heidelberg in 1965 and then became a professor of orthopedics and head of a “Department of Dysmelia and Technical Orthopedics” at the Heidelberg Orthopedic University Clinic in Schlierbach.

He was also the Horowitz Visiting Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University . For many years he was a member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as the German representative for technical adaptations .

In addition, he was first vice-president and then from 1983 to 1986 president of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO).

After his retirement he lived in Ebenau in the Salzburg region .

research

Ernst Marquardt, he mainly dealt scientifically with the further development of prostheses and their application in the care of amputees .

One focus of his orthopedic research was the supply of prostheses and rehabilitation of thalidomide victims . Above all, the development of special prostheses for children, an improvement in the control of arm prostheses and the development of a vehicle conversion kit for armless driving succeeded .

In addition, he developed several surgical techniques on the stump, which primarily served to improve the function:

• a variant of the tenomyoplastische Chopart amputation, so a disarticulation in the tarsal joints in the midfoot, to prevent the otherwise frequent equinus position
• a stump cap plastic for children, which prevents the stump from being speared through the bone that continues to grow
• the Marquardt angle osteotomy , in which the distal part of a long upper arm stump is angled so that the upper arm prosthesis has a better hold and is rotationally stable.

Honors

The German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (DGOOC) awarded him the "Lexer Prize" in 1994, which is now known as the "Prize for Reconstructive Orthopedics and Surgery".

He was a bearer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, first class, also the Austrian Albert Schweitzer Medal and was Cavaliere Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana .

literature

• Georg Neff: Obituary for the death of Prof. Dr. Ernst Marquardt . Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery Announcements and News, December 2016, page 611.
• Spiegel 21/1963 on the development of pneumatic arm prostheses for children with thalidomide damage by Ernst Marquardt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice
2. ↑ Lexer Prize