Gerhard Pfeifer (oral surgeon)

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Gerhard Pfeifer (* July 15, 1921 in the statutes ; † February 9, 2003 in Hamburg ) was a German oral and maxillofacial surgeon and university professor .

Live and act

After attending school in Wolkenstein, Zschopau and Grimma near Leipzig and Chemnitz , he was called up for military service after graduating from high school in 1940 . After brief captivity , he studied medicine and dentistry in Heidelberg from 1946 . During his studies he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity in the winter semester of 1948/49 . In 1952 he received his doctorate .

In 1967 he was appointed professor for oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and in 1970 moved to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in the same function . In 1980 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Schmelzle: On the death of Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. hc Gerhard Pfeifer. In: Journal of the German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. No. 28, October 2003, pp. 8-9.
  2. ↑ Burschenschafter Stammrolle 1991. P. 149.
  3. ↑ On the effect of the mitotic poisons N-methylcolchicamide and aminopterin on the blood system of mice and guinea pigs. Dissertation Heidelberg 1952, DNB 480304912 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeifer, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German oral and maxillofacial surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Statute , Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2003
Place of death Hamburg