Eugen Hahn (surgeon)

Eugene Hahn

Grave of Eugen Hahn, Alter Luisenstadt Kirchhof I, Berlin-Kreuzberg

Eugen Hahn (born April 27, 1841 in Ortelsburg , † November 1, 1902 in Berlin ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Hahn studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg and at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . He was a member of the Corps Baltia Königsberg and the Corps Silesia Breslau . He passed the medical state examination in 1866. He then became a Dr. med. PhD .

He took part in the German War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 .

In Berlin, Hahn became chief physician in the surgical department of the Friedrichshain hospital in 1880 . He remained in this position until his death. Together with surgeons from other Berlin hospitals, he founded the Free Association of Surgeons in Berlin in 1886 , the predecessor of today's Berlin Surgical Society . In addition to his work as a hospital doctor, he was also active in academic teaching.

In 1881 Hahn achieved the world's first surgical fixation of a migrating kidney (so-called nephropexy ). In 1884 he invented a new surgical technique for tibial defects by implanting part of the fibula into the tibia.

Eugen Hahn died in Berlin in 1902 at the age of 61. His grave is in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Kreuzberg (field WM). The portrait medallion on the grave was created by the sculptor Gerhard Janensch .

Works

• Surgical treatment of the movable kidney through fixation. in: Zbl. Chir., 1881, p. 449 ff.
• About extirpation of the larynx. (= Collection of Clinical Lectures, Vol. 260) Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1885.

Honors

• Go Medical Council
• Cross of Merit in gold of the House Order of the Wendish Crown
• Red Eagle Order IV class

literature

• Alfred Neumann: Obituary for Eugen Hahn. In: Archives for Clinical Surgery . Volume 68, No. 5-6, May 1903, pp. I-IV.
• Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, Rolf Winau and Rudolf Häring: First operations in Berlin surgeons 1817–1931. P. 2.
• J. De La Rosette, M. Hatzinger, M. Sohn, P. Alken and S. Langbein: Nephropexy through the ages. In: The Urologist. Volume 46, 2007, Issue 2, pp. 166-169.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 86 , 83; 21 , 413.
2. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: History of the Corps Baltia. Vol. 1.
3. ↑ Message from the Berlin Surgical Society at http://bchirg.de/_geschichte/gruendung-und-gruender/
4. ^ J. De La Rosette, M. Hatzinger, M. Sohn, P. Alken and S. Langbein: The nephropexy in the course of time . In: The Urologist . Volume 46, 2007, Issue 2, pages 166-169.
5. ↑ G. Brandt: The foot and its deformation. In: German journal for surgery . Volume 191, 1925, p. 78.
6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 79.