Hermann Maas (surgeon)

Hermann Maas

Hermann Maas (born January 3, 1842 in Stargard , Pomerania , † July 23, 1886 in Würzburg ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Hermann Maas's parents were Daniel Maas and his wife Marianne geb. Klopstock. He attended the Groeningianum grammar school and received his school-leaving certificate there in 1861. After graduating from high school, Maas studied medicine at the Royal University of Greifswald and from the 5th semester at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Breslau . He became active in the Corps Borussia Greifswald (1861) and in the Corps Silesia . He was awarded Dr. med. doctorate and approved in 1866 . and assistant to Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf . In 1866 he took part in the German War as a surgeon . He qualified as a professor in 1869 through the experience he gained. After he had also participated in the Franco-Prussian War , he went to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1871 . In 1876 he became full professor . In 1883 he moved to the Juliusspital of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He was particularly committed to asepsis . His inaugural lecture in Würzburg was entitled Lessons at the Surgical Clinic with an emphasis on antiseptic education . One of his students and assistants and post-doctoral candidates was Albert Hoffa . At the age of 46 he succumbed to pericarditis . Before the 1930s, neither his son-in-law, the Geh, knew that he was born a Jew but had converted to Protestantism at a young age . Medical Councilor Prof. Johannes Müller (Nuremberg), nor the grandson Hans Karl Müller .

Works

• About the regeneration of the long bones .
• The treatment of ulcers with special consideration of Reverdin's transplantation , in: Richard Volkmann: Collection of clinical lectures . Leipzig 1873, pp. 386-400.
• Galvanocaust treatment of angiomas
• Communications from the surgical clinic in Freiburg (2 vol.), 1879.
• The diseases of the urinary and genital organs , in: Franz König : Textbook of Special Surgery . Berlin 1875.

literature

• Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin Vienna 1901, Sp. 1067.
• Michael Sachs: Breslau - Würzburg: The surgeon Hermann Maas (1842–1886) In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries , ed. by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007, pp. 406–408

Web links

• Maas, Hermann ( Memento from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) A biographical lexicon for the portrait collection of the anatomist Robert Wiedersheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 54/203; 21/414
2. ↑ Michael Sachs, p. 407
3. ^ Articles of War Surgery: A Surgical Treatise. Medical habilitation thesis, Breslau 1866
4. ↑ Hans-Bernd Herzog: Suevia Munich and the "Aryan and Versippten question" 1933 and 1934 . Lecture at Suevia Munich on June 8, 2017