Heimann Wolff Berend

Heimann Wolff Berend (born November 29, 1809 in Landsberg / Warthe , † June 25, 1873 in Berlin ) was a German surgeon and orthopedist . He is one of the pioneers in scientific orthopedics.

Life

Grave of Heimann Wolff and Bertha Berend.

Heimann Wolff Berend was born to Jewish parents in Landsberg / Warthe. At the age of 15 he came to Berlin and attended the Protestant high school at the Gray Monastery . After graduating, he studied medicine from 1828 to 1832 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today Humboldt-Universität) and graduated with a doctorate. Together with Moritz Michael Eulenburg , he published situs of all the viscera of the skull, chest and abdominal cavity in 1833 .

In 1834 he settled in Berlin as a surgeon. He also worked from 1837 to 1840 as a surgical assistant doctor under Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach at the Charité . In 1840 he founded a gymnastic and orthopedic healing institute in Berlin, which he headed until his death. In 1847 he was able to place more than 70 inpatients here. From 1842 Berend wrote reports on the work in his institute every two years. By 1870, almost 300 case histories had appeared. As an orthopedic surgeon, he used both conservative and surgical procedures. He was the first doctor in Berlin to use ether anesthesia in 1847 and developed several orthopedic auxiliary devices. In the 1850s, he was one of the first medical professionals to start a systematic collection of patient photographs. The first pictures were taken in the summer of 1853 at the latest. From 1858 he commissioned the photographer Leopold Haase (1831–1901) to carry out the work. By 1865 Berend's collection had reached over 1,000 illustrations. From 1861 he also held the position of senior physician in the surgical department at the Jewish Hospital in Auguststrasse .

He was married to Bertha Hirsch (1817–1897) since 1838. In 1841 his first son Emil (1841–1900) was born, in 1843 his son Albert (1843–1863). Heimann Wolff Berend died in 1873. His grave is still in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee .

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Fonts (selection)

• De cancro labiali additis observationibus tribus , dissertation, 1832
• Contributions to the treatment of contractures by cutting tendons and muscles , J. Petsch, Berlin 1840
• On the treatment of outdated knee contractures , AW Schade, Berlin 1841
• The previous results of cutting back muscles for the healing of the lateral curvature of the spine , Reimer, Berlin 1843
• About the use of photographs for medical science purposes . In: Wiener medical Wochenschrift 5, 1855, pp. 291-293
• The World Exhibition in Paris in 1855 in surgical and orthopedic relationships , AW Schade, Berlin 1856
• About necrosis in the amputation stump, together with a description of a rare such operation , C. Nöhring, Berlin 1859
• On the case of fracture entrapment , G. Hempel, Berlin 1860
• For the casuistic presentation of the current standpoint of orthopedic surgery . In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift 36, 1864
• An orthopedic teaching device for the Imperial Russian University of Kiev , Hirschwald, Berlin 1865
• On the differential diagnosis of kyphosis , Berlin 1868
• About the benefits of therapeutic gymnastics to eliminate the frailty caused by injuries with war weapons , Berlin 1871

literature

• Benjamin A. Marcus: Heimann Wolff Berend (1809–1873) and Moritz Michael Eulenburg (1811–1887). Berlin orthopedic surgeons in the 19th century . In: L. Zichner, M. Rauschmann, K.-D. Thomann (Hrsg.): History of conservative procedures on the locomotor organs . Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-7985-1267-2 , pp. 227–232 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Eva Brinkschulte: Patients in Pose - To the patient pictures from Heimann Wolff Berend's gymnastic-orthopedic institute in Berlin 1840–1870 . In: L. Zichner, M. Rauschmann, K.-D. Thomann (Hrsg.): History of conservative procedures on the locomotor organs . Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-7985-1267-2 , pp. 17–30 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Eva Brinkschulte, Yara Lemke Muniz de Faria: Patients in the studio. The photographic collection of the doctor Heimann Wolff Berend 1858 to 1865 . In: Photo history. Contributions to the history and aesthetics of photography 21, 2001, pp. 17–26.
• Axel W. Bauer : Berend, Heimann Wolff . In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte . tape 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 165 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-23186-5 .
• M. Eppler: Heimann Wolff Berend (1809–1873). Pioneer of scientific orthopedics in the 19th century. Medical dissertation Heidelberg / Mannheim 1991.

Web links

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