Ernst Trömner

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Ernst Trömner (born August 24, 1868 in Meerane , † May 27, 1930 in Hamburg ) was a German neurologist .

Life

Trömner was the son of a pharmacist . He attended the Friedrichgymnasium Altenburg . He then studied medicine at the University of Leipzig , interrupted by stays at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (SS 1890 and WS 1890/91) and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1893 he received his doctorate in Leipzig . This was followed by an assistantship in Jena , Leipzig , Heidelberg , Dresden and Berlin . In 1895 Trömner set up a private practice in Hamburg . From 1898 to 1918 he headed a polyclinic for nervous diseases that he founded. During the First World War he was the medical director of a hospital. From 1919 until his death Trömner headed the neurology department of the St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg. In 1928 he was appointed professor by the health authorities .

Ernst Trömner was married to Lieselotte Pulvermacher, the couple had a daughter and a son.

Act

Ernst Trömner pursued a lively publication activity, encompassing a broad spectrum of neurology. In particular, case reports as well as papers on reflex testing, stuttering , sleep disorders and hypnosis have been published by him.

Trömner reflex hammer

In 1910 he designed a reflex hammer with two rubber heads of different sizes (for use on tendons of different widths ) and a tapered handle (for testing the Babinski sign ). This Trömner reflex hammer is one of the most widely used reflex hammers today, with head and handle available in variations. In 1927 Henry Woltman brought some examiners with him to the United States, where he soon enjoyed great popularity and became a symbol of neurologists at the Mayo Clinic .

Trömner also described the finger flexion reflex named after him (Trömner reflex). When snapping or hitting the palmar side of the middle finger phalanx, reflex flexion of the finger phalanx including the thumb occurs.

literature

  • Valdeci J. Pomblum, Timo Siepmann: Ernst Trömner: beyond the reflex hammer. In: Neurological Sciences. September 19, 2018 (Epub ahead of print) doi : 10.1007 / s10072-018-3571-3 . (With photo Trömner)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Kühne: eighty-first news of the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Altenburg over the school year Easter 1887 to Easter 1888 . Printed by Oskar Bonde, Altenburg 1888, p. 15. ( digitized in the Internet Archivehttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dachtzigste00gymnuoft~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3DDigitalisat%20im%20Internet%20Archive~PUR%3D )
  2. ↑ Valdeci J. Pomblum, Timo Siepmann: Ernst Trömner: beyond the reflex hammer. In: Neurological Sciences. September 19, 2018 (Epub ahead of print) doi : 10.1007 / s10072-018-3571-3 .
  3. ^ Official directory of the staff of teachers, civil servants and students at the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Summer semester 1890. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1890, p. 88.
  4. ^ Official directory of the staff of teachers, civil servants and students at the royal Bavarian Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Winter semester 1890/91. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1890, p. 88.
  5. ↑ Ernst Trömner: On the characteristics of the cortical language disorders . Leipzig 1893.
  6. ↑ a b c Pomblum, p. 2.
  7. ^ O. Foerster, K. Mendel: Meeting on Thursday, September 18. In: German journal for neurology . 115, 1930, pp. 155f. doi : 10.1007 / BF01668628 .
  8. ↑ History of the day. In: Clinical weekly. 7, 1928, p. 2132, doi : 10.1007 / BF01735629 .
  9. ↑ Ernst Trömner: A new reflex hammer; at the same time a contribution to the examination of tendon reflexes. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift . 47, 1910, pp. 997-998.
  10. ↑ DJ Lanska: The history of reflex hammers. In: Neurology. 39, 1989, p. 1542, doi : 10.1212 / WNL.39.11.1542 .
  11. ↑ Pomblum, p. 3.
  12. ↑ Ernst Trömner: A case of spastic syphilitic spinal paralysis (Erb). In: Neurological Centralblatt. 31, 1912, pp. 603-604.
  13. ↑ Peter B. Urban (Ed.): Clinical-neurological examination techniques . 2nd Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-13-167052-6 , pp. 88 .
personal data
SURNAME Trömner, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerane
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1930
Place of death Hamburg