Ferdinand Eisenberger

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Ferdinand Eisenberger (born June 14, 1937 in Komotau , Czechoslovakia ; † March 4, 2009 in the mountains near St. Moritz ) was a German urologist , known for his involvement in the development of kidney stone fragmentation with ultrasound (ESWL, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy ). Ferdinand Eisenberger was the father of the surgeon Claus Ferdinand Eisenberger .

Life

He was the son of the head of surgery in the Chomutov District Hospital, where he attended elementary school until the family was expelled in 1945. He went to the humanistic high school in Regensburg , where he graduated from high school in 1957. He then studied medicine from 1957 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU), where he received his doctorate in 1963 and was then a scientific assistant in surgery with Rudolf Zenker and in urology with Egbert Schmiedt . In 1969 he became a specialist in urology and in 1973 he completed his habilitation, after which he was a private lecturer. In 1978 he became professor and director of the urological clinic at the Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart. In 1979 he became an adjunct professor at the LMU Munich. In 2003 he retired.

In addition to Eisenberger, the urologist and surgeon Christian Chaussy , the physicist Bernd Forssmann (from Dornier) and the engineer Wolfgang Hepp were involved in the development of the ESWL, which began in Munich with the first experiments in 1974 . The starting point was an observation of aircraft technology that raindrops caused damage not only to the surface but also to the material during supersonic flight. The first test on the patient was carried out with the prototype of the HM1 device on February 7, 1980 by Chaussy, Dieter Jocham and Forssmann at the Institute for Surgical Research at LMU and Urology (headed by Egbert Schmiedt). The first series device (HM3) was installed three years later at the Urological Clinic in Stuttgart. The treatment then caught on worldwide and replaced the surgical removal of kidney stones.

In 1987 he was President of the German Urological Society.

Awards and honors

  • 1976 CE Alken Award
  • 1981 Maximilian Nitze Prize of the German Society for Urology (together with Chaussy, Forssmann, W. Brendel, D. Jocham, W. Hepp, JM Gokel)
  • 1985 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1986 Prize for European Science
  • 1989 Distinguished Contribution Award, American Urological Association
  • 1990 Ritter von Gerstner Medal
  • 1991 Anniversary Prize of the German Society for Surgery
  • 1992 Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
  • 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Endourological Society.
  • 2001 Honorary Doctorate from Hatieganu University in Cluj
  • 2003 Culture Prize of the Sudendeutschen Landsmannschaft

Fonts

  • Published by Urological Stone Therapy: ESWL and Endourologie , Thieme 1987
  • F. Eisenberger, C. Chaussy, B. Forssmann: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). Chronology of a development , Der Urologe, Volume 46, 2007, pp. 1015-1019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Innovation report on the development of the ESWL
  2. ↑ Prize Winner Nitze Prize
personal data
SURNAME Eisenberger, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Komotau
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2009
Place of death at St. Moritz