Hans Frangenheim

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Hans Frangenheim (born January 18, 1920 in Cologne , † September 22, 2001 in Konstanz ) was a German gynecologist . He is considered the founder of gynecological laparoscopy .

Life

Hans Frangenheim was born in 1920 as the second son of the professor of surgery at the University of Cologne Paul Frangenheim and his wife Margarete. He attended a school in Cologne and, after his father's death in 1930, a boarding school in Switzerland until 1938. During World War II , he was used for labor and military service in the Air Force. From 1942 to 1945 he was able to study medicine as a soldier at the universities of Münster , Bonn and Cologne . He came into American captivity, where he worked as an assistant in a prisoner of war hospital . From 1946 to 1950 Frangenheim was an assistant at the Surgical University Clinic in Cologne and at the Pathological Institute of the University of Bonn. He then began gynecological and obstetric training in 1950 at the Wuppertal State Women's Clinic under Karl Julius Anselmino (1900–1978), where he became senior physician in 1954 . In 1966 Frangenheim moved to the city gynecological clinic in Constance as chief physician . In 1977 he completed his habilitation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he was also appointed adjunct professor in 1983. He headed the gynecological clinic in Constance until his retirement in 1985.

Hans Frangenheim died in 2001 at the age of 81. He was buried in the family grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery .

Act

Frangenheim recognized the possibilities of laparoscopy in gynecology after he was called to an internal laparoscopy in 1951 as a gynecological training assistant at the Landesfrauenklinik in Wuppertal .

“It was then that I realized that this was a new tool for gynecology and I began to study literature. What impressed me most was a saying in Kalk's textbook , who wrote that he was certain that a wide range of indications would open up for laparoscopy in gynecology. "

After modifying the gynecological instruments a little, Frangenheim began to perform regular laparoscopy in 1952. In addition, together with the company Dräger, he developed the first CO 2 insufflation device for the continuous and controlled filling of the abdominal cavity with gas. In 1955 he sat in Paris with Raoul Palmer , who was a leader in sterility diagnostics and therapy at the time, and recognized the superiority of laparoscopy over kuldoscopy , which was commonly used at the time. Frangenheim recognized the first indications for laparoscopy in gynecology in the field of diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy , chronic pelvic pain of infertility and ovarian tumors . Together with Palmer, Frangenheim described a laparoscopic method for sterilizing women through coagulation .

Fonts

  • The importance of laparoscopy for gynecological diagnostics. In: Fortschr Med. 76, 1958, pp. 451-452.
  • Laparoscopy and Culdoscopy in Gynecology. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1959.
  • Tube sterilization under sight with the laparoscope. In: obstetric women's health. 24, 1964, pp. 470-473. PMID 14237965
  • The current position of laparoscopy in gynecology. In: Arch Gynaekol. 207, pp. 240-250 (1969). PMID 5819942
  • Laparoscopy in Gynecology, Surgery, and Pediatrics: Textbook and Atlas. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-13-331403-3 .
  • Laparoscopy and culdoscopy in gynecology: Textbook and atlas. Butterworths, London 1972, ISBN 0-407-90100-0 .
  • Ovulation: Homo sapiens In: Encyclopaedia cinematographica. Institute for Scientific Film, Göttingen 1973.
  • Diagnostic and Operative Laparoscopy in Gynecology: A Color Atlas. Marseille Verlag, Munich 1980.
  • Laparoscopy in Gynecology: Images for Diagnostic and Operative Laparoscopy. ROCOM Verlag, Basel 1981, ISBN 3-7244-8520-4 .

Awards

Hans Frangenheim has repeatedly been honored nationally and internationally for his achievements.

Kurt Semm paid tribute to Frangenheim on the occasion of its 80th birthday with the words:

“ Today the name Frangenheim is inextricably linked with the method of gynecological laparoscopy. He achieved epochs for Germany and the world and will go down in the history of German gynecology. "

The Gynecological Endoscopy Working Group of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics awards a Hans Frangenheim Prize for scientific work in the field of laparoscopic surgery .

literature

  • GS Litynski: Hans Frangenheim - Culdoscopy vs. Laparoscopy, the First Book on Gynecological Endoscopy, and "Cold Light". In: JSLS. 1, 1997, pp. 357-361. PMID 9876704
  • Liselotte Mettler , Kurt Semm : Endoscopic Abdominal Surgery in Gynecology . Schattauer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-7945-1965-5 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • D. Radloff: Professor Dr. H. Frangenheim 80 years - one life. In: D. Radloff (Hrsg.): Laparoscopy on the threshold of the 21st century: Looking back and looking. Zuckschwerdt Verlag, Germering / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88603-690-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ picture of the tomb. In: Findagrave.com. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Meant is Hans Kalk , Egmont Wildhirt : Textbook and Atlas of Laparoscopy and Liver Puncture. Thieme, Stuttgart 1962.
personal data
SURNAME Frangenheim, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2001
Place of death Constancy