Heinrich Beck (physician)

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Heinrich Beck (born May 31, 1928 in Coburg ; † February 7, 2006 in Erlangen ) was a German surgeon and university professor. He headed the trauma surgery department of the surgical clinic at the University Hospital Erlangen .

Life

Heinrich Beck studied medicine from 1948 to 1954 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and the Philipps-Universität Marburg . In 1955 he became a research assistant to Gerd Hegemann , who was appointed director of the Erlangen University Surgical Clinic . As early as 1963, Beck was given the management of the trauma surgery department. At the same time he became head of the physical department and head of the vocational school for physiotherapy .

Under Beck's direction, the spectrum of trauma surgery in Erlangen was expanded and expanded. In collaboration with the Erlangen company Peter Brehm , he established hip arthroplasty. In the 1960s he promoted the posterior approach to the hip joint. Beck has been working on the development of cementless hip prostheses since the 1970s, working closely with Hans Ulrich Zwicker from the Materials Science Institute at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Beck performed almost 20,000 hip operations and chaired over 100 national and international congresses. In 1989 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . One of the students is Friedrich Hennig . After his retirement in 1994 he took on tasks at the international air ambulance and was active in numerous missions, for example in Brazil , Iraq and for children injured by mines in Sarajevo , where he also opened a pain clinic.