Herbert Eckstein (surgeon)
Herbert Eckstein (born July 11, 1926 , † November 5, 1986 ) was a British pediatric surgeon of German - Jewish origin specializing in pediatric urology .
Herbert B. Eckstein was born into a German medical family as the son of Albert Eckstein , d. 1950 in Hamburg, and Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann, d. 1998 in Cambridge . Father, mother and grandfather Arthur Schloßmann were pediatricians . After his father, who had been the director of the Academic Children's Clinic in Düsseldorf as the successor to his father-in-law since 1932, was released in 1935 because of his Jewish origins , the family emigrated to Turkey . Eckstein received his education in England. There he also studied medicine.
From 1958 to 1961 he set up the children's surgery department in Ankara at the children's hospital at Hacettepe University together with his mother, who is also a pediatrician. In 1961 he returned to England and worked as a resident doctor at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where he worked as a pediatric surgeon from 1963 and later at Queen Mary's Hospital Carshalton, Surrey .
Eckstein was the first to describe ureterocystoplasty and in 1973 introduced bladder augmentation with the aid of the dilated ureter as a treatment technique. In 1981 he became an honorary member of the German Society for Pediatric Surgery .
A medical conference was held in Istanbul in 1995 in his memory; A specialist book was dedicated to him on this occasion.
literature
- International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Vol. 2. Eds. Herbert A. Strauss , Werner Röder. Saur, Munich a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 234
- Arnold Reisman: Turkey's Modernization. Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk 's Vision. New Academia Publ., 2006 ISBN 0-9777908-8-6
- Angela Genger : Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann died in Cambridge. In: moment. Published by Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf , No. 12-13, 1998, p. 23.
- Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann; Lorenz Peter Johannsen (Ed.): "Actually, I am nowhere at home". Records . Series: Jewish Memoirs. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942271-74-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Deceased corresponding members, honorary members, honorary presidents and presidents of the DGKCH. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 16, 2015 ; accessed on July 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b L. Spitz, AM Holschneider: Obituary HB Eckstein MA, MD, MChir, FRCS . In: Journal of Pediatric Surgery . tape 42 , no. 6 , 1987.
- ^ Reconstructive Surgery of the Lower Urinary Tract in Children . Joachim Thuroff et al., International Society of Urology, Informa Health Care, 1995, p. 135 ISBN 1-899066-16-0
- ^ Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision . Arnold Reisman, by New Academia Publishing, LLC, 2006, p. 498 ISBN 0-9777908-8-6
- ↑ Readable in google books online, see previous note
- ↑ Obituary
- ↑ Selection from all of her records
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckstein, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pediatric surgeon of German-Jewish origin specializing in pediatric urology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1926 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1986 |