Horst Cotta

Horst Cotta (born July 15, 1928 in Berlin , † March 28, 2011 in Munich ) was a German orthopedist and university professor .

Life

As a student of Alfred Nikolaus Witt , Cotta followed the call of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg to the chair of orthopedics in 1967 . From June 1, 1967 to 1996, he was director of the Heidelberg University Orthopedic Clinic . He made Heidelberg Orthopedics the most influential in Germany and established the clinic's international reputation.

Like his teacher, Cotta was close to trauma surgery and carried out the difficult and overdue merging of the two subjects. He was a founding member (2008) and honorary member (2010) of the German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery .

Presidencies

• Association of Southern German Orthopedists (1971)
• German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1979)
• German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (1981)
• German Society for Trauma Surgery (1986)

Honors

• Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (1980)
• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1988)
• Saxon Order of Merit (August 11, 2003)
• Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach -Bust
• Ernst von Bergmann plaque from the German Medical Association
• Purkyně Medal of Honor of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
• Dr. med. hc from Semmelweis University
• Member of the Leopoldina (1976)
• Honorary member of numerous German and international specialist societies

Individual evidence

1. ^ The chief physicians of the Orthopedic University Clinic Heidelberg
2. ↑ Obituary notice (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

literature

• Peter Kirschner, Tim Pohlemann: In memory of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Horst Cotta . Announcements and news from the German Society for Trauma Surgery 63 (2011), p. 136

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Cotta in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dieffenbach bust