Franz Unterberger (gynecologist)

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Franz Carl Christian Unterberger (born September 7, 1882 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † April 11, 1945 ibid) was a German gynecologist . He was a lecturer at the Albertus University in Königsberg and, until his suicide, chief physician at the Hospital of Mercy in Königsberg.

Life

Franz Unterbergers was the nephew of Reinhold Unterberger , a Königsberg gynecologist. After graduating from high school in Königsberg, he studied medicine at the Königsberg Albertina and in Munich. During his studies he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . In 1905 he in Königsberg with his work became operational About violations of the thoracic duct doctorate .

Unterberger was initially an assistant doctor at the surgical university clinic. In 1908 he moved to the pathological-anatomical institute in Geneva and later to the gynecological clinic in Rostock . In 1911 he qualified as a professor there in the field of obstetrics and gynecology with his thesis The mortality in childbed in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the years 1886-1909 . In 1912 he became a midwifery teacher at the Königsberg University Women's Clinic. In 1914, as the successor to his uncle Reinhold, he took over the management of the department for women's diseases at the Deaconess Hospital of Mercy in Königsberg. At the same time he became a private lecturer at the medical faculty of the Albertina.

During the First World War he did military service. After the war he worked again as a clinic director and consultant. He was scientifically active in the field of clinical and experimental medical research. From 1925 he published various works on the procedure of operative fallopian tube implantation and developed a method for establishing the ability to conceive in the case of sterility . Against the background of attempts to transplant tissue and organs, which have arisen since the middle of the 19th century, Unterberger created the epoch term of the "age of transplants". He also dealt with the proof of the endangerment of the germinal tissue by the action of X-rays . Furthermore, Unterberger investigated possibilities of influencing the sex in the act of procreation.

Unterberger experienced the capture of Königsberg by the Soviet Army while he was working in the hospital. According to reports from witnesses, he is said to have had such horrific experiences that he committed suicide two days after the occupation on April 11, 1945. Staff buried him on the hospital grounds.

Publications

  • On the appearance of fat droplets in the muscle cells of the myometrium in so-called metritis chronica. Archives for Gynecology 90/3 (1910).
  • Childbed mortality in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the years 1886–1909. In: Archives for Gynecology 95 (1912).
  • Is ovarian transplantation practical? . German Medical Weekly 1918, pp. 903-904.
  • Experimental hybrid formation and its influence on the offspring. A contribution to the question of the internal secretion of the gonads. In: Monthly for Obstetrics and Gynecology 1924, pp. 41–47. on-line
  • Normal partus after tube implantation . Monthly magazine for obstetrics and gynecology 73 (1926).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Scholz, Paul Schroeder: Doctors in East and West Prussia. Life and achievement since the 18th century. Holzner, 1970. p. 137.
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 510.
  3. ↑ Franz Unterberger: "Does ovarian transplantation have practical significance?", In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 44 (1918 (II), pp. 903–904, here p. 903).
personal data
SURNAME Unterberger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unterberger, Franz Carl Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1945
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)