Friedrich Bernhard (physician)

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Friedrich Bernhard (born September 24, 1897 in rows , Grand Duchy of Baden ; † December 9, 1949 in Gießen ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Gießen.

Life

Friedrich Bernhard was the son of a sawmill owner. He attended elementary school in his hometown row and the secondary school in Sinsheim . He graduated from high school in Heidelberg . He registered as a war volunteer in 1916 and in the same year suffered a shrapnel injury to his leg, which made it necessary to stay in a hospital for about a year. During this time Bernhard decided to study medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-University . He became a member of the Vineta Heidelberg fraternity . After being drafted again in 1918, he continued his studies in Heidelberg and Leipzig, completing the state examination in 1921. He then worked at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute in Mannheim under Hermann Loeschcke and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He received his training as a surgeon at the surgical clinic in Mannheim under the direction of Franz Rost . There he also worked with the physiologist Ernst Josef Lesser . In 1926 he went to Bremen , where he worked in the surgical department of the municipal hospitals. He also gained experience as a ship's doctor and during guest stays at Vienna clinics.

In 1928 Bernhard joined the surgical clinic at the Hessian Ludwig University as an assistant doctor . This happened at the suggestion of the director of the clinic, the surgeon Peter Poppert (1860-1933), who became his sponsor and teacher. In the following year Bernhard completed his habilitation. From 1930 private lecturer in Gießen, he became head of the polyclinic in 1932 and later the clinic's first senior physician. Under Wilhelm Fischer he was first associate professor in 1935 and when he left Giessen in 1938, full professor . He was a consulting surgeon in the western campaign and operated on many vascular and lung injuries in the reserve hospital at the Giessen clinic. After the end of the war he played a key role in the reconstruction of the clinic. The military government in the American zone of occupation initially banned him from working and confiscated the house in which he lived with his wife and three daughters.

Bernhard wrote over a hundred scientific articles, including the "Textbook of Surgery" and "Surgery", and published the series "Pathological-Physiological Basics of Surgery". As a surgeon, he specialized in biliary tract , pancreas and thorax . In 1948 he successfully operated on coarctation of the aorta (narrowing of the isthmus ), which was the first procedure of its kind in Germany. The following year he was the first European to transplant a preserved piece of aorta. A month later he died after a brief illness at the age of 52.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 905 No. 397, p. 530 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the influence of the muscles on the shape of the skeleton .
  3. ↑ a b c Friedrich Bernhard In: Hans Georg Gundel, Peter Moraw, Volker Press: Giessener scholars in the first half of the 20th century. Part 1, Elwert, Marburg 1982, p. 75.
  4. ↑ Trial lecture: The current problems in surgery for acute pancreatic diseases .
  5. ↑ Children's heart surgery ukgm.de. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rows , Grand Duchy of Baden
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1949
Place of death to water