Georg Winter (physician)

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Georg Anton August Alexander Winter (born June 22, 1856 in Rostock , † March 13, 1946 in Baden-Baden ) was a German gynecologist, professor and rector of the University of Königsberg .

Life

Georg Winter, who grew up in Rostock as the son of the merchant and cloth merchant Johann Gottlieb Georg Winter, studied medicine in Rostock and Heidelberg from 1875 to 1881. After his doctorate (1881) he was an assistant at the Medical Clinic in Heidelberg from 1881 to 1883. He then worked as a ship's doctor for a Dutch shipping company. From 1884 to 1897 Winter was an assistant doctor at the University Women's Clinic in Berlin with Karl Schroeder and Robert von Olshausen . He completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1887 and was appointed associate professor at Berlin University in 1893. In 1897, Winters was appointed full professor and director of the University Women's Clinic at the University of Königsberg. In the 1912/13 year of office he was rector of the University of Königsberg. Winter retired in 1924; from 1934 he lived in Baden-Baden, where he died shortly after the end of the Second World War.

Winter had been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1926 .

From 1890 until the divorce in 1939 he was married to the theater actress Maria Ortwin .

Major works

  • About the recurrences of uterine cancer, especially about vaccine recurrences , Stuttgart 1893.
  • Textbook of gynecological diagnostics , Leipzig 1896 (3rd edition Leipzig 1907).
  • The indications for artificial sterilization of women , Berlin / Vienna 1920.
  • The artificial abortion. Indications, methods, administration of justice; for the obstetric practitioner , Stuttgart 1926.
  • Textbook on surgical obstetrics for doctors and students , Berlin 1927 (2nd edition Berlin / Vienna 1934).

literature

  • Doctors in East and West Prussia. Life and achievement since the 18th century. Compiled and ed. by Harry Scholz and Paul Schroeder, Würzburg 1970, pp. 84–86.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 10, Munich 1999, p. 532.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1928/29 . Third edition, Berlin / Leipzig 1928, column 2681.
  • Julius Pagel (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century, with a historical introduction , Berlin 1901, Sp. 1866 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Winter's member entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ Christian Tilitzki: The Albertus University Königsberg: Your story from the establishment of the empire to the fall of the province of East Prussia (1871-1945) . Volume 1: 1871-1918, Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, 823 pp., 2012, ISBN 978-3050043128 , p. 644
  3. ↑ Rostock marriage register 202/1890.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Georg Anton August Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1946
Place of death Baden-Baden