Fritz Lange (doctor)

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Fritz Lange

Fritz Lange (born June 21, 1864 in Dessau , † November 19, 1952 in Wackersberg , Upper Bavaria ) was a German orthopedist.

Life

Fritz Lange was the son of the Anhalt government councilor Adolf Lange (1827–1882) and his wife Luise geb. Jacoby (1839-1899). After graduating from high school , he studied medicine at the University of Jena , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Leipzig . In 1892 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After Lange worked as an assistant doctor in Munich, Dessau and Rostock and in 1894 with his teacher Otto Wilhelm Madelung at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , he received training in conservative orthopedics in Vienna in 1895 with Adolf Lorenz , one of the most famous orthopedists of his time, who ran an outpatient clinic .

In 1896, Lange moved to Munich and opened an orthopedic outpatient clinic. Here he completed his habilitation. In 1903 he was appointed doctor at the cripple welfare organization and associate professor. In 1908, Lange refused to succeed the late Albert Hoffa at the Berlin chair . Appointed full professor in Munich , he was chairman of the German Orthopedic Society in 1909. On December 1, 1913, he opened Germany's first state orthopedic clinic in Munich. The Kraussianum Foundation was affiliated with it. He devoted himself particularly to hip dislocation in hip dysplasia , torticollis , scoliosis and spinal tuberculosis, but also to postural errors in children as well as birth and paralysis. For poliomyelitis sequelae , he recommended the transfer of the body's own and artificial tendons . "It was precisely the negative results of these efforts that resulted in the promising selection of methods and heightened criticism."

Fritz Lange wrote over 170 essays, handbook articles and monographs . Above all, as co-editor of the Munich Medical Weekly , he tried to arouse the interest of general practitioners in orthopedic problems with articles that were easy to understand. Lange retired in 1934 .

Fritz Lange was married in 1897 to Anna Jent (1877–1965) from Würzburg , with whom he had two daughters. He was the uncle and teacher of Max Lange , who was appointed to the chair of orthopedics in Munich in 1954.

Honors

Fonts

  • With Joseph Trumpp: The emergence and prevention of physical deformity: the emergence and prevention of the round back, curvature of the spine, high hips and high shoulders, the X- u. Bow legs, flat feet etc, Moritz, 1905
  • Orthopedic textbook, Gustav Fischer, 1914, 3rd edition 1928
  • With Meinhard von Pfaundler , Arthur Schlossmann , Hans Spitzy : Chirurgie und Orthopädie im Kinderalter, In: Volume 5 of Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde: a book for the general practitioner / edited by Meinhard von Pfaundler and Arthur Schlossmann, Edition 2, Vogel, 1915
  • With Joseph Trumpp: Kriegs-Orthopädie, In: Volume 3 of Taschenbuch des Feldarztes, Lehmann, 1915
  • With Hans Spitzy: Orthopädie im Kinderalter, In: Volume 8 von (Handbuch der Kinderheilkunde), Edition 3, Vogel, 1930
  • The language of the human face: a scientific physiognomics and its practical application in life and in art, Lehmann, 1937, 4th edition 1952, Spanish 1957
  • With Max Lange: A life for orthopedics: memories from Fritz Lange. With a preface by Max Lange, F. Enke, 1959

literature

  • Ludwig Zichner , Michael A. Rauschmann, Klaus-Dieter Thomann (eds.): First and early descriptions of orthopedic clinical pictures / [German Orthopedic History and Research Museum] , page 135 ff., Darmstadt: Steinkopff, 2003
  • Peter Pitzen, In: Zeitschrift für Orthopädie 78, 1949, pages 425–431, with catalog raisonné
  • Peter Pitzen, In: Zeitschrift für Orthopädie 83, 1953, pages 177-183
  • Gerhard Grosch:  Lange, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 557 ( digitized version ).
  • Wolfgang Christopher Caro: The development of orthopedics as an academic subject at the University of Munich with special consideration of the work of Fritz Lange . Diss. LMU 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: A case of multiple papillomas on the tonsil, tongue and epiglottis .
  2. ^ August Rütt (ed.): History of orthopedics in the German-speaking area . Enke, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-432-25261-7 , p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1952
Place of death Wackersberg , Upper Bavaria