Hermann Frenzel

Hermann Frenzel (born May 16, 1895 in Berlin , † December 3, 1967 in Göttingen ) was a doctor, dean and professor at the Georg August University of Göttingen .

Life

Frenzel's grave in Göttingen

Born on May 16, 1895 in Friedrichshagen near Berlin, Frenzel attended secondary school in Cottbus and Frankfurt / Oder and began studying medicine in Greifswald in 1913 . Here he joined the Corps Marchia and came through this to its Cartel Corps Corps Irminsul . He stayed in both until his death.

After the first semesters in Greifswald and Göttingen, his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War and the registration as a volunteer and could only be continued in 1916 and completed with the medical state examination in Greifswald in 1919 . During his doctorate in 1920 and the first assistant year at the Surgical Clinic in Greifswald he was of William Bruning so strongly attracted that he moved to the run by this Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic and here in 1925 for the specialist ear, nose and throat medicine habilitated .

The next stages in life were Cologne (senior physician with Alfred Güttich ), Dortmund ( chief physician of the city's ear, nose and throat clinic) and finally in 1942 the appointment as a full university professor in Göttingen. It was here that Frenzel found his full development and fulfillment as a researcher, university professor and doctor. He declined honorable calls to Cologne (1950) and Heidelberg (1952) in order to be able to fulfill the duties he had taken on - he participated as dean and electoral senator for eleven years in the university's senate work. On October 1, 1963 he retired.

His scientific work is essentially characterized by three periods: The creation of the prerequisites ( Frenzel glasses ) and the expansion of the examination methodology of clinical vestibular research, the preoccupation with technical problems in all areas of the subject, which lead to an improvement of the instruments and the surgical procedures, especially the tracheo -Broncho-esophagoscopy and the early stages of larynx carcinoma, and finally the development of valuable pragmatic systematics of symptoms and diseases.

Fonts

Frenzel took an active part in the founding of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Göttingen and the German Society of Ear, Nose and Throat Doctors, of which he was the first post-war clerk and chairman in 1952. After Seiffert's resignation, with whom he had jointly endeavored to re-appear and reorganize the journal by dividing it into the archive serving clinical and experimental research and the ENT guide, which is geared towards specialist practice, Frenzel took over the editorial management of the archive for neck in 1955 -Nose and throat medicine , of which he was the managing editor until his death. It is thanks to his work as editor that the results of basic research in the specialist field of ear medicine were retained in the archive and were therefore always available to the clinician. For many years he was also one of the editorial boards of the Zentralblatt, the monthly for otolaryngology, the Acta oto-laryngologica (Stockholm), the Practica oto-rhino-laryngologica (Basel), the " Der Anesthesist " and the Heidelberg individual presentations from the theoretical and clinical medicine.

Honors

Frenzel's life was honored through numerous domestic and foreign honors. In 1950 Frenzel was elected an honorary member of the Austrian Oto-Laryngological Society, in 1952 a member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum, of which he was a member of the three-party scientific committee for the election of new members until his death. In 1954 he was elected to the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle, whose Senator and Medical Adjunct for the State of Lower Saxony he had been since 1963. As a corresponding member, Frenzel had been a member of the Société Francaise d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie since 1954 and of the Bárány Society as a founding member since 1960 . In 1960 he received an honorary doctorate from the Université Lille Nord de France .

literature

• Hartmut Elers & Andreas Walther: 125 years Corps Irminsul , Hamburg 2005.
• B. Minnigerode, European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Volume 190 Number 2, I-IV.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Frenzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files