Hans Spitzy

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Hans Spitzy performing a surgical operation.  Process print, Wellcome V0028869.jpg

Hans Spitzy (born December 21, 1872 in St. Leonhard , Styria , † July 22, 1956 in Vienna ) was an Austrian doctor in the field of orthopedics . He was also known for his work in the field of physical education , especially of toddlers .

Career

Hans Spitzy studied at the University of Graz , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1896. At first he devoted himself to paediatrics ; he remained until 1906 as an assistant at the Graz University Children's Clinic. At the same time, Spitzy completed training in the then new specialist field of surgical orthopedics at Albert Hoffa in Würzburg . The two doctors also went on a study trip to the USA together . In 1905, Spitzy became a private lecturer in orthopedic surgery at the University of Graz, and a year later he took over the management of the surgical-orthopedic department of the Graz University Children's Clinic, which he founded.

Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, Spitzy moved to Vienna , where he had been appointed university professor. During the war he was appointed to the front as senior staff doctor. After the end of the war, Spitzy became a university professor for orthopedic surgery at the University of Vienna and at the same time took over the orthopedic department of the Kaiser Franz Joseph Hospital . In 1923 he was appointed full professor and director of the Vienna Orthopedic Hospital. Through a disciplinary process that lasted until 1927, he became known to a broad public in addition to specialist circles.

In the further course of his career, Spitzy moved primarily in Catholic university circles, was a member of the Catholic academic community, the Austrian Leo Society , the Starhemberg wing of the Heimwehr and the Patriotic Front, which acted as a unity party in Austrofascism . During the Nazi dictatorship in Austria , Spitzy's Catholic background was viewed critically, although his son Karl Hermann Spitzy was already an “illegal” member of the NSDAP and the SS in the corporate state . Margit Frankau , who worked in the nursing department at Spitzy and was supported by him during the Nazi era and also looked after his five children, was deported as a Jew in 1944 and died in the Theresienstadt ghetto in the same year .

His son Reinhard Spitzy (1912-2010) was a Nazi functionary and diplomat, his son Karl Hermann Spitzy (1915-2013) followed in his father's footsteps as a medical doctor and university professor.

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Spitzy described his research, healing and treatment methods in his specialty in more than 200 articles. The most important and most respected works are in the field of hip joint dislocations , nerve and bone surgery, physical education, and surgery for bone tuberculosis. His books on the physical education of children from his early work also earned him great prestige.

Honors

Spitzy was an honorary member and corresponding member of numerous medical societies at home and abroad. In 1933 he became a member of the Leopoldina . On his 80th birthday, shortly before his death, he was awarded the Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna for his outstanding achievements in the field of medicine . In 1959 the Hans-Spitzy-Gasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf and in 1998 the Spitzyweg in Vienna- Favoriten were named after him.

Works

  • The physical education of the child. Berlin / Vienna 1914 (traducido al español por el Dr. Bastos Ansart)
  • Our war invalids. 1915.
  • The child's physical development. 1925.
  • with Fritz Lange : Orthopedics in childhood. Leipzig 1930.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Vienna's street names since 1860 as “political places of remembrance”. (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 310ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Hans Spitzy