Hermann Brüning

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Hermann Brüning (born April 16, 1873 in Sprockhövel , † April 30, 1955 in Rostock ), was a German pediatrician . In 1916, Brüning became the first director of the newly founded children's clinic at the University of Rostock .

Life

Brüning came in 1873 as the son of postmaster Anton Leonhard Brüning and his wife Emilie Brüning, nee. Schmidt, to the world. In 1914 he married Luise Niewerth, daughter of a Rostock pharmacist. The couple had four children.

After graduating from high school in Munich-Gladbach in 1894 , Brüning studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg , Kiel , Munich and Bonn . In Bonn he received his doctorate in 1898. med., followed by a position as a prosector at the Pathological Institute of the University of Bonn. In 1901 Brüning switched to the University Children's Clinic in Leipzig as an assistant doctor , where he stayed until 1905. Then , in 1905, Brüning completed his habilitation in pediatrics at the University of Rostock . In 1909 Brüning was appointed associate professor, followed in 1919 as full professor of paediatrics. In 1916, Brüning became director of the newly founded Medical University Children's Clinic and Polyclinic.

After his retirement in 1938, Brüning remained active as a resident pediatrician in Rostock until 1951. 1940-1944 he took a position as chief physician of the reserve hospital in Kühlungsborn , later in Graal . In 1943 and 1944 Brüning stepped in as a substitute professor and acting director of the children's clinic at the University of Greifswald and the University of Rostock, then resumed his regular teaching activities at the University of Rostock from 1945 to 1948 and retired a second time in 1948. Only three years later he was again commissioned with the provisional management of the Rostock University Children's Clinic until 1953.

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Therapeutic Vademecum for Children's Practice , Leipzig 1904.
  • Infant mortality in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: its causes and how to combat it, Wiesbaden 1909.
  • with Ernst Schwalbe (Ed.): Handbook of general pathology and pathological anatomy of childhood, 2 volumes, Wiesbaden 1912–1924.
  • Brief textbook on bedside examination, Stuttgart 1921.
  • Bathing and spa training for children along with the associated private and public children's homes, Stuttgart 1930.
  • Mineral springs and seaside baths in Mecklenburg, A historical representation of the Mecklenburg bathing system up to the middle of the 20th century, Rostock 1948.

literature

  • Ingo Richter: University paediatrics in Rostock 1905-2005 . In: Kersten Krüger (ed.): The University of Rostock between socialism and university renewal. Contemporary witnesses report. Part 2 (= Rostock Studies on University History, Volume 2). University of Rostock, Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-86009-027-5 , pp. 254–292 ( digitized version )
  • Jürgen Külz: History of paediatrics and the children's clinic at the University of Rostock . Rostock 1993 (BGUR 13), pp. 16-21, 24-26.
  • Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 , pp. 88-89.
  • Johannes Oehme: pioneers of paediatrics . In: Wilhelm Kosenow (Ed.): Topics of Pediatrics, Volume 7, Lübeck 1993, ISBN 3-87302-076-9 , p. 18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mauritz Dittrich: 80 years of the new University Children's Hospital Greifswald. In: Siegfried Wiersbitzky, Otto-Andreas Festge (Hrsg.): Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, 80 years of new construction of the children's clinic in Soldtmannstraße (= scientific contributions from the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald) , Greifswald 1994, p. 19, 24. ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprockhövel
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1955
Place of death Rostock