Georg Joachimsthal

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Georg Joachimsthal

Georg Joachimsthal (born May 8, 1863 in Stargard , Pomerania , † February 28, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German orthopedist.

Life

Joachimsthal studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . At times he was an anatomical demonstrator with Wilhelm von Waldeyer . In 1887 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In the following year he established himself as a general practitioner in Berlin. Without giving up the doctor's practice , he went in 1898 as an assistant to his uncle Julius Wolff , who headed the orthopedic polyclinic of the Charité . With him he qualified as a professor for orthopedic surgery in 1898. He gave up general practice in 1900 and founded a private orthopedic clinic in Berlin. In 1901 he was one of the founders of the German Society for Orthopedic Surgery .

After receiving the title of professor in 1902, he was appointed associate professor in 1908 and (as the successor to Hoffa) director of the orthopedic university clinic. He also took over the management of the Cäcilienheim children's sanatorium in Hohenlychen . There children with tuberculosis of the bones and joints were treated.

From 1907 he was co-editor of the journal for orthopedic surgery . In 1910 he founded the Berlin Orthopedic Society .

Works

  • On the nature and treatment of Coxa vara , habilitation thesis (?). Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1898.
  • The congenital deformities of the upper extremities . RöFo supplementary volume 2 (1900).
  • Congenital deformities of the lower extremities . RöFö supplementary volume 8 (1902)
  • Orthopedic Surgery Manual . Gustav Fischer Verlag , Jena 1905–1907.
  • Orthopedics . Urban & Schwarzenberg 1906.

literature

  • Manfred Stürzbecher: Joachimsthal, Georg , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 10 (1974), p. 442 f. Online version

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Rütt (ed.): History of orthopedics in the German-speaking area . Enke, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-432-25261-7 , pp. 31, 36.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the pathology and therapy of scoliosis .
  3. ↑ a b c FIS
  4. ^ August Rütt (ed.): History of orthopedics in the German-speaking area . Enke, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-432-25261-7 , p. 36.
  5. ↑ Georg Joachimsthal: The University Policlinic for Orthopedic Surgery in Berlin , in: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift 47 (1910), pp. 1899–1901.
personal data
SURNAME Joachimsthal, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedics
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Stargard in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1914
Place of death Berlin