Georg Gottstein

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Grave of Georg and Jacob Gottstein in the old Jewish cemetery in Breslau

Georg Gottstein (born September 12, 1868 in Breslau ; died April 21, 1936 there ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Gottstein came from a family of Jewish denomination that had lived in Silesia for a long time. After Berlin, Breslau had the largest Jewish community in the German Empire. Gottstein's father Jacob Gottstein (1832–1895) was professor of ear, nose and throat medicine in Breslau.

Georg Gottstein studied medicine at the University of Breslau . In 1895 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He completed his training in surgery with Johann von Mikulicz , who dared to take the first steps in endoscopy . With him he completed his habilitation in 1902 with an animal experiment. With Hermann Küttner he devoted himself to urology . As an adjunct professor , in 1909 he became head of the surgical department at the Israelite Hospital in Breslau. He described cardiomyotomy independently of Ernst Heller . In 1908 he was one of the founders of the Wroclaw Surgical Society. With Hermann Küttner, Carl Partsch and Karl Goebel he sat on the board as secretary for 14 years. At the last general meeting during Küttner's lifetime on November 25, 1931, he was re-elected with Küttner, Partsch and Goebel. At that time the society had 52 ordinary and 40 extraordinary members. All meeting reports of the Breslau Surgical Society from 1908 to 1939 are printed in the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie . They are “still worth reading today” (Kozuschek). Already after Partsch's death in May 1932 and while Küttner fell ill in June 1932, Gottstein took over the chairmanship until the end of 1932. On January 25, 1933, the Society met in the Israelite Hospital. Still boss and host there, Gottstein was not mentioned in the meeting report. As a Jew, he had apparently resigned from his post as chief physician and first secretary at the end of January 1933 - or had been forced to do so. Died at the age of 67, he was buried in the Old Jewish Cemetery (Breslau) .

Fonts

  • Technique and Clinic of Esophagoscopy . Fischer, Jena 1901.
  • About the surgical treatment of cardiac spasm. In: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie. Volume 31, 1904, pp. 1362-1363.
  • Rectosigmoscopy . Urban & Schwarzenberg 1926.

editor

  • Handbook of Urology , 5 vols. 1926/1929.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian v. Deuster: Gottstein, Jacob. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 505 f.
  2. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia (2008)
  3. ^ Nathan Koren: Jewish Physicians: A Biographical Index
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Attempts to cure tetany by means of implantation of the thyroid gland and administration of thyroid extract: along with remarks on blood findings in tetany .
  5. ↑ Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 25
  6. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The simultaneous double-sided vagotomia supradiaphragmatica in dogs and their influence on the cardia .
  7. ↑ Central Journal for Surgery. Volume 25, 1933, pp. 1468-1479.
  8. ↑ Waldemar Kozuschek : The Breslauer Chirurgische Gesellschaft and the Southeast German Surgeons Association in Silesia (1909-1945) , in: Dieter Rühland, Friedrich Wilhelm Eigler : The regional surgeons associations in Germany . Oberhausen 1999, pp. 243-278
  9. ^ Heinz Sarkowski: Der Springer-Verlag - catalog of its publications 1842-1945
personal data
SURNAME Gottstein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon in Breslau
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1936
Place of death Wroclaw