Hermann Kümmell

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Hermann Kümmell (1905)

Hermann Kümmell (born May 22, 1852 in Korbach , Waldeck , † February 19, 1937 in Hamburg ) was a German surgeon and urologist.

Life

Hermann Kümmell was the son of a pharmacist. After graduating from the Alte Landesschule Korbach in 1872 , Hermann Kümmell studied medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg , the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg , the Kaiser Wilhelms University in Strasbourg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He became a member of the Corps Hasso-Nassovia (1873) and the Corps Nassovia Würzburg (1874). On May 12, 1875, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After completing his studies, he became an assistant doctor to Max Schede at the municipal hospital in Friedrichshain in Berlin. He worked in the internal and surgical departments. In 1880 he followed Schede to Hamburg at the Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg . In 1881 he was accepted into the Academic Club in Hamburg . Since 1883 head physician in the surgical department, he followed Schede in 1895 as senior physician (= head) at the New General Hospital Eppendorf . In 1907 Kümmell received the title of professor . In 1919 he took up the chair for surgery at the newly founded University of Hamburg and was elected rector in 1921 . Between 1909 and 1926 he headed the 1st, 7th, 15th, 17th, 23rd and 26th meetings of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . Kümmell was buried on the grave of his family in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square S 8.

Kümmell recognized the importance of antisepsis for surgery and introduced it to operations. He distinguished the terms antisepsis and asepsis . In special surgery he dealt with intestinal obstruction , bladder cancer and tuberculosis of the peritoneum . His research contributions on neurosurgery , prostate enlargement and the gallbladder are also noteworthy . In 1886 he opened the common bile duct for the first time . He was one of the first to use the surgeon to use X-rays .

His son Hermann Adolph Kümmell (1890–1969) was a surgeon in Kiel.

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Fonts

  • Diseases of the urinary bladder (including surgery) , in: Wilhelm Ebstein (Ed.): Handbook of practical medicine , Vol. 3, Part 1: The diseases of the urinary organs and the male sexual apparatus. Venous diseases. Enke, Stuttgart 1900, pp. 181-356 .
  • Surgery of the male genital organs , in: Wilhelm Ebstein, Julius Schwalbe (Hrsg.): Surgery of the general practitioner. Including eye, ear and dental diseases (= handbook of practical medicine. Erg.-Bd.). 2nd Edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1907, pp. 611-726 .
  • with Henry Graff: Injuries and diseases of the kidneys and ureters , in: Ernst von Bergmann , Paul von Bruns (ed.): Handbook of practical surgery. Volume 4: Surgery of the Pelvis. 3rd, revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1907, pp. 75-340.
  • Operations on the kidneys, renal pelvis and ureters , in: August Bier , Heinrich Braun , Hermann Kümmell (Hrsg.): Operations on the rectum, on the urinary and male genital organs and on the extremities (= Surgical Operations Doctrine. Vol. 3). Barth, Leipzig 1913, pp. 60-213.
  • Operations on the kidneys and renal pelvis , in: Friedrich Voelcker , Hans Wossidlo (Ed.): Urologische Operationslehre , Department 2. Thieme, Leipzig 1921, pp. 387–454.

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons
  • Honorary Chairman of the German Society for Surgery
  • Secret Medical Council (1913)
  • Prof.-Kümmell-Straße in Korbach
  • Kümmellstrasse in Hamburg-Eppendorf

See also

literature

  • Jost Benedum :  Kümmell, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 214 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • August Bier, Tom Ringel: Dedicated to the old master of surgery Hermann Kümmell with the warmest congratulations on his 80th birthday on May 22, 1932 . Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 59 (1932), pp. 1250-1257.
  • Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Volume 2: Kon Branch. 3rd, unchanged edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1962, pp. 832-833.
  • Kümmell, Hermann, A., P., Fr. In: Robert Volz: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 1042.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Kümmell, Hermann. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 812.
  • Kerstin Source: The Hamburg surgeon Hermann Kümmell (1852-1937): chief physician, clinical researcher and academic teacher. Medical dissertation Hamburg-Eppendorf 2014 ( available online ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 101/354; 142/366
  2. ↑ Kerstin Quelle (2014), pp. 28–30.
  3. ↑ Conferences and Chairmen
  4. ↑ Kiel list of scholars
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68/819
  6. ↑ Explanation of the origin of the street name on the website of the Eppendorf district archive. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kümmell, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Korbach
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1937
Place of death Hamburg