Hermann Küttner

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Hermann Küttner (born October 10, 1870 in Berlin , † October 10, 1932 in Munich ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Hermann Küttner was a son of the manor owner Otto Küttner on Eichwerder near Soldin in Neumark. After attending grammar schools in Waldenburg / Silesia, Berlin and Hameln, he began studying medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1889 he became active in the Corps Suevia Tübingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1894 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He received his medical training first in anatomy from Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer , then in surgery from Paul von Bruns . In 1897 he completed his habilitation in surgery in Tübingen. In 1900 he was appointed associate professor for surgery in Tübingen . In 1904 he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg , which appointed him full professor in 1906 . Friedrich Althoff brought him to Berlin in 1907 to propose the successor to Carl Garrè in Breslau. Küttner followed the call of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität to her chair for surgery. After a brief heart disease, he died at the age of 62. In his obituary for Küttner, Erwin Payr wrote :

“This is how Küttner became one of the leading men in our field. He was one of the most eloquent speakers and one of the most sympathetic appearances at the German surgeon congress. "

- Erwin Payr

Clinic and Research

Küttner dealt scientifically with the research of the lymphatic tracts of the diaphragm, with vascular surgery and with the transplantation of tissues of the recently deceased. He was considered a brilliant surgeon. He developed various new surgical procedures. In 1914, together with William Stewart Halsted from Johns Hopkins University, he organized the first international exchange in surgical training. In his publications he dealt with surgical diseases in the area of ​​the brain and facial skull. As a surgeon, he assisted Otfried Foerster in establishing neurosurgery . As a delegate of the German Red Cross , he introduced X-ray diagnostics into war surgery in the Turkish-Greek War , the Second Boer War and the Boxer Uprising . In 1927 he was president of the German Society for Surgery . He is the namesake for the Küttner tumor of the salivary gland . With his friend August Borchard he founded the Southeast German Surgeons Association in 1913.

Honors

Fonts

  • Under the German Red Cross in the South African War , 1900.
  • Experiences of war surgery from the South African War 1899/1900 , 1900.
  • Wroclaw University on the centenary , 1911.
  • The development of surgery in: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte , Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell, among others, 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.
  • German Surgery , Volume 25, Part 1, 1913
  • with Felix Landois : The surgery of the striated muscles , 1913.
  • with Erwin Payr: Results of Surgery and Orthopedics , Ninth Volume, 1916.
  • with Hans-Albert Dege, Eduard Melchior, August Borchard and Paul von Bruns: Injuries of the brain - injuries to the vessels and nerves of the cranial cavity , Vol. 2, 1916.
  • Extirpation of a hydropic gallbladder containing stones , 1925.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 129 , 444
  2. ^ A b Dieter Rühland, Friedrich Wilhelm Eigler: The regional surgeons' associations in Germany . Oberhausen 1999, p. 252 f.
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 48 (1932), pp. 2866–2870
  4. ↑ Ira M. Rutkow, Karl Hempel : An experiment in surgical education - the first international exchange of residents. The letters of Halsted, Küttner, Heuer, and Landois. Archives of Surgery, 123: 115-121 (1988)
personal data
SURNAME Küttner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1932
Place of death Munich