Gustav Biedermann Günther

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Gustav Biedermann Günther (born January 22, 1801 in Schandau , † September 8, 1866 in Leipzig ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

From 1813 to 1818 Günther attended the Pforta grammar school . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig . In 1819/20 he and his colleague Ludwig Thienemann went on a year and a half trip to Norway and Iceland . On November 9, 1824 doctorate he in Leipzig for Dr. med. He went to Hamburg in 1825 and became a surgical assistant to Johann Karl Georg Fricke . After he had established himself as a general practitioner in 1829 , he opened a private orthopedic institute in 1831 . "However, he gradually came to the conviction that orthopedics was nowhere near what the layperson expected of it" and gave up the medical practice after ten years.

On August 8, 1837 he became Christian Gottlieb Deckmann's successor in the chair for surgery at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He was thus director of the surgical clinic at the Friedrichshospital in Kiel . Four years later, in October 1841, he accepted the call from the University of Leipzig . For more than 25 years he was in charge of surgery in the Jacobshospital (Leipzig) . He died of cholera and left behind his wife Friederike Auguste nee. Brown .

Works

In his lifelong endeavor to put surgery on an anatomical basis, he published a surgical anatomy in illustrations with the draftsman Carl Julius Milde . Only the two sections bone theory and muscle theory (1838–1840) were published.

Books

  • Remarks on the curvatures of the spine, and especially on the means of preventing them. As a result of more than ten years of experience . Kiel 1839. GoogleBooks
  • The wrist in mechanical, anatomical and surgical relationships. With drawings by Julius Milde . 1841
  • Surgical theory on corpses. 1843/44. GoogleBooks
  • The dislocation of the first phalanx towards the back surface , 1844. GoogleBooks
  • The high stone carving from its origins up to its current training , Leipzig 1851. GoogleBooks
  • About the structure of the human foot and its most appropriate clothing . Leipzig and Heidelberg 1863. GoogleBooks
  • Guide to operations on the human body , 3 parts. Leipzig and Heidelberg 1859–1865. GoogleBooks

Operating theory

With Julius Eduard Kühn , Friedrich Philipp Ritterich , Karl Wilhelm Streubel , Benno Gottlob Schmidt , Ernst Adolf Coccius , Karl Wilhelm Streubel, Hermann Friedrich Wendt and others, Günther published the doctrine of bloody operations on the human body .

7 volumes
Operations on the Upper Limbs , 1857. GoogleBooks
Doctrine of Operations on the Thorax of the Human Body , 1861. GoogleBooks
Doctrine of operations on the abdomen of the human body , 1861. GoogleBooks
Doctrine of Operations on the Neck of the Human Body , 1864. GoogleBooks
Operations on the Vessels , 1865. GoogleBooks
Operations on the Nerves , 1865. GoogleBooks
Operations on the lips and cheeks , 1866.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FAL Thienemann: Journey in the far north of Europe (1827)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Analecta anatomica fungi medullaris
  3. ↑ a b General German Biography
  4. ↑ Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig
  5. ↑ Leipzig and Heidelberg 1853–1866
  6. ↑ New edition 2012
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Gustav Biedermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Schandau , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1866
Place of death Leipzig