Horst Ludwig Wullstein

Horst Ludwig Wullstein, around 1940

Horst Ludwig Wullstein (born June 24, 1906 in Halle ( Saxony-Anhalt ), † January 24, 1987 in Würzburg ) was a German doctor for ear, nose and throat diseases , clinic director and university professor.

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Horst Ludwig Wullstein was the son of the surgeon and university professor Ludwig Louis Wullstein (1864–1930). Before Wullstein began studying medicine in 1925 , he worked for some time at the blast furnace in mining. He studied medicine until 1930 - first in Munich, then in Freiburg, Vienna, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. From 1926 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Munich .

Wullstein worked under Johannes Zange (1880–1969) in Jena , where he completed his habilitation in 1935. Another activity followed in Munich under Max Nadoleczny (1874–1940). In August 1936, Wullstein from the Physiological Institute of the University of Berlin, under the direction of Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Trendelenburg, published a study on the movement process of the vocal folds during vocal production , which he carried out with a photocell . During the Second World War he worked as a military doctor from 1941 to 1943 . During this time he practiced as an ENT doctor at the University of Strasbourg under the deanery of Johannes Stein , who headed the medical faculty.

After his release from French captivity in 1947, he first began to set up an ENT department in Siegen at the local Protestant Jung-Stilling Hospital (named after the ophthalmologist and writer Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling ). There he dealt with the surgical treatment of otosclerosis . In 1949 Wullstein married the widowed doctor Antonie Sommer born in Olpe / Westphalia. Wüst (1903–1963), who brought three sons into the marriage.

There he brought in his Strasbourg experience, which he was able to gain as a senior physician with Theodor Nühsmann . From 1949 he used microsurgical technology in middle ear surgery.

In 1955 Wullstein received a call to the full professorship for ear, nose and throat medicine in Würzburg , where he headed the ENT clinic until 1975. There he continued to work on surgical otosclerosis therapy and tympanoplasty. From 1962 to 1963 Wullstein was Dean of the Würzburg Medical Faculty. He was a co-founder of the Audiology Journal , which first appeared in 1962. One of his students was u. a. the senior physician and later professor Hans-Heinz Naumann (1919–2001), who has been active in Würzburg since 1955 .

After the death of his first wife (May 1963), he met his future wife Sabina Wullstein in Würzburg , who worked as his assistant. Together they developed new surgical procedures in ear, nose and throat medicine . She qualified as a professor in 1975 and became a professor at the Würzburg Head Clinic in 1984. Both are intensively committed to this new clinic concept and also played a key role in the conceptual development of the head clinic. In this concept, the medical specialties from ENT and ophthalmology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neurology should work together not only scientifically, but also in the care of patients through interdisciplinary cooperation. The first construction work began in 1964, the ENT and eye clinic was added in 1973, followed by the neurosurgery and neurological clinic. They also promoted the acquisition of the Hubland area for the expansion of the Würzburg University. Horst Wullstein had already made available properties in the Hubland area that he had acquired in 1962 and were intended as living space for future clinic employees at the cost price.

Horst Wullstein retired in 1975. His successor was Walter Kley (1921–1995). As a result, Wullstein and his wife set up a private clinic in Würzburg at Oberen Neubergweg 10 a in the Frauenland district , today the seat of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg.

Merits

With regard to tympanoplasty , based on the pathological conditions, Wullstein created a categorization with a total of five basic techniques to restore the ossicular chain or the tympanic field effect:

• Type I - myringoplasty (eardrum plastic)

  There is only a defect in the eardrum while the ossicular chain is intact and capable of vibrating. Only the eardrum defect is covered or closed and a connection to the ossicle is established.

• Type II - ossiculoplasty

  Here a part of the ossicular chain ( hammer , anvil , the stapes but still intact) is defective, the insufficient parts are surgically replaced or the missing parts are bridged.

• Type III

  Here is a completely defective transmission chain and is therefore no longer functional. The operation ensures a direct sound transmission from the eardrum to the inner ear , for example through an inserted transplant .

• Type IV

  The sound pressure transmission takes place without the ossicular chain.

• Type V

  Fencing operation: the eardrum and stapes are connected to one another in this method.

Inconspicuous eardrum

Example of an eardrum defect

Together with the Carl Zeiss company , the physicist Hans Littmann (1907–1991) and later the ophthalmologist Heinrich Harms , Wullstein developed the OPMI 1 surgical microscope in 1953 . Wullstein was dissatisfied with the rigid dissection microscopes used at the time; the OPMI 1 ^® surgical microscope was significantly more mobile. The surgical microscope OPMI 1 from 1953 was mounted on a stand and equipped with a rotating arm. It was 10 times magnified. He presented the innovation in 1953 at the 5th International Congress of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Amsterdam .

Honors

• 1953 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
• 1955 member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
• 1995 Designation of the Wullstein research center for German medical literature of the Middle Ages

Publications (selection)

• Operations to improve hearing. Thieme, Stuttgart 1988.
• Display and execution of operations on the ear, nose and throat. Thieme, Stuttgart 1952.
• Diary. July 15, 1941- January 8, 1943. Stürtz, Würzburg 1990.
• Tympanoplasty. Osteoplastic epitympanotomy. Together with Sabina Regina. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 1997, ISBN 3-13-667201-1 .
• The movement of the vocal folds during vocalization. In: Archives for ear, nose and larynx medicine. 1937, Volume 142, Issue 2, pp. 119-138.
• The clinic of the labyrinthis and paralabyrinthis: on the basis of the x-ray findings. Thieme, 1948.
• Theory and Practice of Tympanoplasty. In: Laryngoscope. (1956) 66, pp. 1076-1093.

See also

• Adolf Miehlke

literature

• Esther Schimanski: History of the tympanoplasty. Dissertation; High Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum, 2004, online

Web links

• 1953 Image of the first surgical microscope OPMI® 1 - developed in cooperation with leading surgeons: Prof. Dr. Horst Wullstein (ENT) and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Harms (ophthalmology). Carl Zeiss Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ Society for the Promotion of Medicine: Festival symposium for the 110th birthday .
2. ↑ Werner Hartkopf: The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, p. 400. ISBN 3-05-002153-5 .
3. ↑ BERLIN-BRANDENBURG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES 2006. July
4. ↑ Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Louis (Ludwig) Wullstein [1]
5. ↑ Sergio de Paula Santos: Centenário de Horst Wullstein, about dos mais brilhantes otorrinos do século XX. Biography in Portuguese, online
6. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 38/949.
7. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy. Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, p. 167.
8. ↑ History (s) - Pictures - Memories Special publication of the Diakonie Klinikum GmbH for the 50th birthday of Ev. Jung-Stilling Hospital in Wichernstrasse on October 8, 2016, Diakonie in Südwestfalen gGmbH, Press, Communication & Marketing Department [2]
9. ↑ Tilman Brusis: History of the German ear, nose and throat clinics in the 20th century. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-540-41704-4 , pp. 340–341.
10. ↑ On the history of ear, nose and throat medicine in Würzburg ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ For the 50th anniversary of the journal for audiology. In: Journal of Audiology. 2012; 51 (2), pp. 51-59. (PDF; 808 kB)
12. ↑ Hans-Achim Müller: Address on the occasion of the unveiling of the Wullstein memorial plaque in the Institute for the History of Medicine. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, p. 531 f.
13. ↑ Hans Behrbohm; Oliver Kaschke: Oto-endoscopy. Endo-Press, Tuttlingen (2006) p. 13 ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.9 MB)  
14. ↑ Michael Reiss: Specialist knowledge of ENT medicine bound differentiated diagnostics and therapy. Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-540-89440-3 , p. 395.
15. ↑ Dag Moskopp : N euro Surgery: Handbook for training and interdisciplinary reference book. Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-7945-1991-4 , p. 461.
16. ↑ Technical milestones in medical technology. Archive photo of the Zeiss company with the first surgical microscope OPMI ^® 1 from 1953  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ^ Carl Zeiss, Optical Works General. Company history, online
18. ↑ Wolfgang Klimm: Endodontology: Basics and Practice . Deutscher Zahnärzte Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-934280-13-7 ( page 189 in the Google book search).
19. ↑ Zeiss: 50 years of surgical microscopes (PDF; 935 kB)
20. ^ Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. Congress report d. 5th International Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Amsterdam 1953. Ed. PG Gerlings u. WH Struben. Assen, van Gorcum & Comp. 1955.