Fritz Starlinger

Fritz Theodor Starlinger (born January 7, 1895 in Vienna ; † January 9, 1988 there ) was an Austrian surgeon .

Life

Fritz Starlinger, son of the psychiatrist Josef Starlinger (1862-1943), devoted himself to filed Matura a study of medicine at the University of Vienna , which he in 1921 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. In the same year he took up a position as an assistant doctor at the Second Medical University Clinic, headed by Prof. Norbert Ortner , and shortly afterwards he switched to Prof. Anton Eiselsberg , whose daughter Elisabeth (1904–1944) he married in 1926, to the First Surgical Department University hospital. In 1925 he moved to Prof. Egon Ranzi at the University of Innsbruck , where he completed his habilitation in 1928 as a private lecturer in surgery. In 1929 Fritz Starlinger returned to the First Surgical University Clinic in Vienna.

In 1936, Starlinger , who was appointed titular associate professor , was entrusted with the management of the surgical department at the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital . In this function, he reorganized the department, set up an X-ray room, a laboratory and an archive, and performed the first angiographies . After contracting the flu at Christmas 1939, he was surprisingly discharged without notice. Starlinger, who was rehabilitated a short time later and whose department had in the meantime been filled with Fritz Demmer , was called up for military service and assigned to the military commander in Paris as an advisory surgeon .

He had been widowed since 1944 because his wife was killed in an air raid on Vienna.

In 1946 Starlinger was transferred to the management of the surgical department at Wilhelminenspital , which he held until his retirement in 1961. Fritz Starlinger, older brother of Wilhelm Starlinger , uncle of Peter Starlinger , died in 1988 two days after he had turned 93 in Vienna.

Fritz Starlinger's research areas included the gastric duodenum, pain numbness, cold damage, the circulatory system and the extrahepatic biliary tract.

Fonts

• Attempts on acid resistance and ulcer readiness of the infrapapillary duodenum, as well as the expansion of the terminolateral gastroduodenostomy as part of Billroth's first method , 1928
• Pain prevention: 12 lectures, Springer, Vienna, J. Springer, Berlin, 1931
• Emergency surgery for life-threatening functional disorders, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna, 1939
• Errors and dangers in field surgery, Issue 2, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, 1943
• With Otto von Frisch: Frostbite as local cold damage and the general cooling off during war, Steinkopff, Dresden Leipzig, 1944
• From Heilkunst und Heilkunde, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, 1949
• The relaparotomy , de Gruyter, Berlin, 1954

literature

• University of Vienna: Number of employees at the University of Vienna: for the academic year, Holzhausen, 1959, page 24.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 3, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , page 3786.
• Deutsches Adelsarchiv, CA Starke (Firm), Deutscher Adelsrechtsausschuss: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume 96, CA Starke, 1989, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 . Page 78.
• Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna Hospitals , Böhlau Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77595-9 . Page 372.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Starlinger in the catalog of the German National Library