Heinrich Kuntzen

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Heinrich Kuntzen (born January 11, 1893 in Hannoversch Münden ; † May 9, 1977 in Jena ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

From 1913 Kuntzen studied medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After participating in World War I from 1914 to 1918, he moved to Rostock University in 1919 . With a doctoral thesis in pathology, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. From 1921 he was assistant to his doctoral supervisor Werner Hueck and went with him to the University of Leipzig . In 1923 he married Elisabeth Becker . He completed his training in surgery with Erwin Payr . He qualified as a professor in 1929 and was a private lecturer for seven years . From 1936 to 1945 he was a non-scheduled associate professor in Leipzig. In 1939 he became head of the surgical clinic of the Chemnitz municipal clinics . As a senior medical officer in the Wehrmacht , he was taken prisoner in the United States . From 1945 to 1951 he headed the surgical department of the city hospital at Küchwald in Chemnitz. The Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the state of Thuringia (1920–1952) appointed him to the chair for surgery in 1951 . He was director of the University Surgical Clinic for eleven years. From 1955 he was a corresponding, from 1959 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

Honors

See also

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1940/41, Sp. 1034.
  • Ines Jira: The surgeon Heinrich Kuntzen (1893–1977). Virtuoso with violin and scalpel , in: Trailblazers of modern medicine. Jena physicians from three centuries. From Loder and Hufeland to Rössle and Brednow , ed. by Christian Fleck, Jena 2004, pp. 283-302.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rostock professor catalog
  2. ^ Dissertation: Summary report on the sections made in 1918 at the Pathological Institute of the University of Rostock .
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: The surgery of elephantiasis. Clinical, histological and experimental examinations .
  4. ↑ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  5. ↑ Leipzig professor catalog
  6. ^ Member entry of Heinrich Kuntzen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 27, 2017.


personal data
SURNAME Kuntzen, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hannoversch Münden
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1977
Place of death Jena