Fritz Brenner

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Fritz Brenner (born December 16, 1877 in Osthofen , † December 26, 1969 in Johannesburg ) was a German doctor and pathologist .

Life

Fritz Brenner, born in Osthofen on 16 December 1877 grew up in Frankfurt am Main , devoted himself to the High School a study of medicine at the universities of Strasbourg , Freiburg and Heidelberg , where he in 1904 to Dr. med. received his doctorate. Brenner, who expressed a marked interest in the pathologist, received an assistant position in the same year with the then famous pathologist Eugen Albrecht in Frankfurt.

In 1896 he became a member of the Strasbourg fraternity Germania and in 1902 a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity .

In 1910 Fritz Brenner moved to German South West Africa , where he took up a doctor's position in Swakopmund . Regardless of the fact that Germany lost its colony to South Africa after the First World War , Fritz Brenner stayed in Swakopmund. In 1922 he moved to Windhoek , before finally settling in Johannesburg in 1935, where he ran a doctor's practice until his retirement.

Fritz Brenner and the Brenner Tumor

The clinical picture of today's so-called Brenner tumor was first described by EG Orhtmann in 1899, but in 1907 Fritz Brenner provided a more detailed description of the disease in connection with three new cases. In a publication that appeared in the same year, he named the tumor oophoroma folliculare. In 1932, the disease was renamed Brenner tumor on a suggestion by Robert Meyer .

After Fritz Brenner was no longer registered in the western world after his emigration to South West Africa, he was forgotten. Coupled with a combination of chance and skilful detective work, Harold Speert managed to locate the author of the work " Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones" , Brenner. By chance he learned that a Dr. Fritz Brenner was in South Africa and could be the pathologist he was looking for. He followed up on this lead, contacted a colleague at Witwatersrand University , from whom he received the surprising answer that Brenner was ordaining in Johannesburg.

Speert then contacted Brenner, who was very surprised that the illness he described had been named after him. He also told Speert that he originally wanted to return to Germany to spend his old age there, but information about National Socialism and World War II kept him from doing so .

Other publications (selection)

  • Guide to the gynecological surgery course, Leipzig, 1899, 2nd. Edition, 1905, translation in Russian
  • Vademecum for histopathological examinations in gynecology, Berlin, 1901, translation into English

literature

  • Harold Speert: Obstetrical-gynecological eponyms: Fritz Brenner and Brenner tumors of the ovary, 1956, 9 (2), pp. 217-221
  • William B. Ober: History of the Brenner tumor of the ovary, In: Pathology Annual, 1979, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 107-124
  • Harold Speert: Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones, New York, In: The Parthenon Publishing Group, 1996
  • Barry G. Firkin, Judith A. Whitworth: Dictionary of Medical Eponyms, In: The Parthenon Publishing Group, 1989, 2nd edition, 2002
  • John L. Powell: Fritz Brenner, MD (1877-1969), In: Journal og Pelvic Medicine and Surgery, 2007 13 (1), pp. 43-44.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 135.
personal data
SURNAME Brenner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Osthofen
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1969
Place of death Johannesburg