Heinrich Braun (medic, 1847)

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Christian Heinrich Braun (born February 18, 1847 in Beerfelden , Odenwald ; † May 10, 1911 in Göttingen ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Career

Braun is considered to be one of the most outstanding surgeons of the 19th century. He developed surgical procedures, some of which are still used today.

He studied at the University of Giessen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . 1869-1870 he had a position as a conservator at the pathological-anatomical institute of the University of Giessen; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he was used as a junior doctor. In October 1871 he became a prosector at the Anatomical Institute of the Charité . In 1872 the doctorate to Dr. med. as well as the license to practice medicine in Giessen. After an assistant position at the Physiological Institute of the University of Giessen , he completed his habilitation there in 1873 in the anatomy department. A habilitation for surgery followed in 1875 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with Gustav Simon at the chair for surgery. The corresponding habilitation took place at Vincenz Czerny also in Heidelberg, where he was then appointed associate professor . After a temporary position as senior physician at the Heidelberg University Surgical Clinic, further positions followed, for example in 1884 as a doctor in charge of the surgical department of the municipal hospital in Mannheim, in October of the same year as a full professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic in Jena , and in 1888 as a full professor of the Surgery at the University of Marburg . In 1888 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Since 1890 professor at the Albertus University in Königsberg , he developed Braun's anastomosis , a surgical short-circuit in the small intestine that is still common today for partial gastric resection . In 1893 he was the first to describe the treatment of a ruptured gastric ulcer by suturing over with the greater omentum . In 1891 he was appointed Medical Councilor, and in 1894 as the Secret Medical Councilor.

In 1895 he moved to Göttingen as a full professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic and polyclinic as the last station of his career. In 1904 he was elected chairman of the German Society for Surgery .

His hometown Beerfelden named Professor-Braun-Strasse after him .

Fonts (selection)

  • About the mode of gastric juice secretion. Medical dissertation at the University of Giessen. Wilhelm Keller, Giessen 1873.
  • About total double upper jaw resections , in: Archive for clinical surgery. Volume XIX. 1876.
  • The importance of the lack of brain movement when the Duro is exposed , in: Archive for clinical surgery. Volume XXI. 1877.
  • The Echinococcus Cysts of the Kidneys and Perirenal Connective Tissue, ed. by G. Simon. 1877.
  • Contributions to the surgery of the pharynx , contributions to the knowledge of the malignant goiter , the ligation of the femoral vein at Poubart's band , about the temporal closure of venous wounds , in: Czerny's contributions to operative surgery, Volume XXVIII, 1882.
  • The diseases of the blood, the blood-forming organs and the digestive organs. Enke, Stuttgart 1900.
  • About some new local anesthetics (Stovain, Alypin, Novocain) , in: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1905, 31/42. Georg Thieme, Leipzig, 1905, pp. 1665–1704.

Literature (selection)

  • August Hirsch (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. First volume. Asakov – Chavasse. Urban & Schwarzenberg. Vienna and Leipzig 1883, p. 563.
  • Fritz Povacz: History of Trauma Surgery. Springer, Berlin a. a. 200, p. 336.

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Christian Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Beerfelden , Odenwald
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1911
Place of death Goettingen