Georg Magnus

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Georg Magnus (born July 28, 1883 in Berlin , † December 22, 1942 in Munich ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Magnus' father was Hugo Magnus, respected for his Ovid research . The ancestors were Protestant pastors in Niederlausitz . Georg Magnus studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel , the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Universität Greifswald . After serving in the Imperial Navy , he traveled to North and South America as a ship's doctor . After a short assistantship in Görlitz and Dresden , he came to Marburg to Paul Leopold Friedrich , who had a lasting influence on Magnus through his experimental work on the early excision of infected wounds . After that, Magnus went to his friend Fritz King , in which he was in 1913 for surgery habilitated .

After the First World War he became an associate professor in Marburg. In 1920 he went with Nicolai Guleke to the University of Jena , where he worked until 1924 as an associate professor and senior physician in the surgical clinic. In September 1916, Emil von Behring had complications after an insignificant operation . In 1925 Magnus went to Bochum as chief physician at the Bergmannsheil hospital . The work on this first European accident hospital determined his future life. Soon Magnus was regarded as an authority on the entire field of trauma surgery and appraisal . He also taught as an honorary professor at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .

When he was appointed to the Charité  for the retired August Bier on November 17, 1933 - probably at the express request of Adolf Hitler - he brought his senior physician Paul Rostock , assistants Hanskarl von Hasselbach and Karl Brandt with him from Bochum . In 1935 Magnus became President of the German Society for Surgery . In autumn 1936 he followed Erich Lexer as a professor in Munich. Considered a trauma surgeon in the treatment of spinal injuries, he and Karl Brandt were sent to Paris in November 1938 to see the shot Ernst Eduard vom Rath . From 1936 to 1942 he was an advisory surgeon in the Wehrmacht . From 1937 to 1941 he was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . In 1939 he headed the last pre-war conference of the Bavarian Surgeons Association . In 1942 he was accepted as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Magnus wrote more than 150 scientific papers.

He was married to Frances Magnus . A daughter was born on March 28, 1917.

editor

  • with Fritz König: Handbook of the entire trauma medicine , 4 volumes. Stuttgart 1932-1934.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Zeiss, Richard Bieling: Behring. Shape and work . 2nd Edition. Schultz, Berlin 1941, p. 546 (Magnus describes his memories of Emil von Behring here).