Franz Gschnitzer (medic)

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Franz Gschnitzer (born November 29, 1929 in Innsbruck ; † April 30, 2014 there ) was an Austrian surgeon and university professor.

Life

Origin and studies

Franz Gschnitzer came from a Tyrolean family of scholars. He was the second son of the well-known lawyer of the same name , while his brother Fritz Gschnitzer became an important ancient historian . Franz Gschnitzer junior attended elementary school and high school in his hometown. He then completed his medical degree at the Leopold-Franzens University , which he graduated with honors in 1953.

Activity from 1953 to 1973

From 1953 to 1955 he worked at the pathological-anatomical institute of the University of Innsbruck before moving to the Innsbruck University Clinic for Surgery, where he carried out his first surgical interventions under Burghard Breitner . From 1957 to 1961 Gschnitzer worked at the Institute for Surgery at the University of Tübingen , headed by Walter Dick , where he spent several months at the Institute for Surgery at the University of Düsseldorf , headed by Ernst Derra , where he got to know cardiac surgery better.

In 1961 Gschnitzer was licensed as a specialist in surgery and returned to Innsbruck. Since the new building of the Innsbruck University Clinic for Surgery opened up the possibility of setting up a special department for cardiac surgery here too, Gschnitzer, after consulting with the then director of the Paul Huber University Clinic (1901–1975), went back to Düsseldorf soon after to work at Derra for four years receive in-depth cardiac surgery training.

In May 1965 he returned to Innsbruck as a senior physician , where he subsequently established cardiac surgery. In 1968 Gschnitzer completed his habilitation with the study " The minimal perfusion of the pulmonary circulation during the cardio-pulmonary bypass circuit ", which was written in Düsseldorf , and the new university clinic for surgery was opened that year. On November 18, 1969, he performed the first open heart surgery here using the heart-lung machine .

Board of Directors of the University Hospital

State and University Hospital Innsbruck

In June 1973 Gschnitzer was appointed director of the University Clinic for Surgery. During Gschnitzer's time as full professor for general surgery, this subject was able to be developed significantly in Innsbruck. Transplant surgery was further developed, the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed, and he was also interested in the screw pump developed by his colleague Josef Hager , a centrifugal-displacement blood pump designed to support the heart . He established numerous new methods at the University Clinic for Surgery, e.g. As special surgical techniques in oncology, but also discovered already by Haberer practiced gastric resection after Billroth I new.

Together with Ernst Kern and Leonhard Schweiberer, Gschnitzer was co-editor of Burghard Breitner's surgical theory .

On October 11, 1983, a transplant team led by Raimund Margreiter carried out the first heart transplant in Austria on the patient Josef Wimmer with the support of Gschnitzer at the Innsbruck University Hospital . With Gschnitzer's support, the first lung and heart-lung transplantations in Austria were carried out in Innsbruck.

In 1987/88 and 1988/89 Gschnitzer acted as dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck. After 25 years as head of the clinic, Gschnitzer retired in 1998.

Honors (selection)

Among other things, he was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol , and he was an honorary member of the Austrian Society for Surgery and the German Society for Surgery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Raimund Margreiter , obituary Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Gschnitzer , accessed on January 25, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f biography on www.chirurgie-innsbruck.at , accessed on January 25, 2018
  3. ↑ Biography of Prof. Dr. Paul Huber
  4. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000. ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 332.

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personal data
SURNAME Gschnitzer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2014
Place of death innsbruck