Franz Mörl
Franz Mörl (born November 6, 1899 in Kostenblatt in Bohemia , today Kostomlaty pod Milešovkou ; † May 30, 1979 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German surgeon and university professor.
Life
The son of the district doctor Karl Mörl (1873-1941) and his wife Hermine (1875-1946) took part in the Austrian army in the First World War after graduating from high school . He then studied medicine at the University of Graz and the Charles University . In 1925 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He worked for Hermann Schloffer in the surgical university clinic for nine years . From 1935 to 1942 he was chief physician of the Saaz district hospital on the Eger , from 1942 to 1945 chief physician of the surgical department of the hospital in Brüx . After the Second World War he worked as an assistant doctor in the St. Georg Municipal Hospital in Leipzig from 1945 . In 1946 he became senior physician at the Leipzig University Surgical Clinic. In 1948 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig. It was also the first medical habilitation at the University of Leipzig after the Second World War. From 1949 to 1956, he was Ernst Heller's successor and headed the surgical department of what is now the St. Georg District Hospital . In 1956 he was appointed full professor at the surgical clinic of the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1960 Mörl was one of the initiators of the mandatory vaccination against tetanus in the GDR . In 1965 he retired .
In 1932 he married Erika Payr (1908–1985), the daughter of a Bregenz architecture professor, in Prague . The couple had three sons: Franz (1932–2017) was the chief physician of the 1st surgical clinic at the St. Georg General Hospital in Hamburg ; Hubert (* 1935) was the chief physician of the medical clinic at the deaconess hospital in Mannheim ; Manfred (* 1941) was the chief physician of the 2nd Medical Clinic of the DRK hospitals in Wesermünde .
Honors
- Member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1953)
- Honored Doctor of the People (1958)
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1959)
- Senator of the Leopoldina (1963)
source
Information No. 22/56 - Subject: Mood among the doctors at the St. Georg Hospital in Leipzig v. June 16, 1956, in: Henrik Bispinck (edit.): The GDR in view of the Stasi 1956. The secret reports to the SED leadership, Göttingen 2016, available online at [1] .
literature
- Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1992.
- Rolf Haupt, Karsten Güldner (Ed.): 800 years of St. Georg in Leipzig. From the hospital of the Canons' Monastery of St. Thomas to the medical and social center. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-563-5 , pp. 253 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Mörl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eberhard Sander: Mörl, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 677 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Entry on Franz Mörl in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the late circulatory disorders after arteriovenous aneurysm and their ability to regress .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mörl, Franz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cost sheet , Bohemia |
DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1979 |
Place of death | Halle (Saale) |