Hugo Sellheim

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Hugo Sellheim

Hugo Sellheim (born December 28, 1871 in Biblis near Worms , † April 22, 1936 in Leipzig ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

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Hugo Sellheim was born as the son of a general practitioner in Biblis. He attended high schools in Worms and Giessen before he began to study medicine at the Hessian Ludwig University . He was active in Corps Starkenburgia from Easter 1890 to Easter 1892 and proved himself as a consenior and twice as a senior . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In Freiburg he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD .

After a traineeship in pathology at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms University , Sellheim went to the University of Freiburg's gynecological clinic under Alfred Hegar as an assistant at the end of 1895 . There he completed his habilitation in obstetrics and gynecology in 1898. Since 1902 associate professor , he was appointed as the first director of the gynecological clinic at the opening of the Academy for Practical Medicine in Düsseldorf . In 1907 he accepted the chair at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He declined an appointment to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1917 he was appointed to the chair at the Friedrichs University in Halle . During the First World War he temporarily headed a reserve hospital in Tübingen . In 1926 he moved from Halle (Saale) as a full professor to the Leipzig University Women's Clinic . He was in charge of this until his death at the age of 64. His successor was Robert Schröder from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1909 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

After Otto von Franqué , Sellheim was the 21st President of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics . In 1929 he opened her congress in Leipzig with the programmatic lecture Future Plans of Gender Relations and Women's Studies . In it he described the image of women at that time, which was derived from the biological characteristics of the female organism. In the Uhu (magazine) he advised women against competitive sports; On the one hand, they take defeats in competition personally, which distorts their facial expressions, and on the other hand, competitive sport affects fertility.

Hugo Sellheim worked on research for a chemical proof of pregnancy and dealt with the determination of paternity . He contributed significantly to the education about sexuality , contraception and childbirth and researched the mechanical processes during childbirth ( "Sellheim's birth mechanism " ). In 1911 Hugo Sellheim was the first to formulate the right of women to decide for themselves when to become pregnant. Together with Johann Veit he further developed the extraperitoneal caesarean section, since under the conditions at the time opening the abdominal cavity was considered risky. In 1916 he was the first academic teacher in Tübingen to give public lectures on problems related to women's health. For Hugo Sellheim, gynecology was the “... part of our science that remains after deducting gynecology and obstetrics in the narrower sense. I include the entire anatomy, physiology and biology of women and women. ”However, he also said:“ By exercising too much according to the male pattern ”, the female body is“ directly masculinized, the female abdominal organs wither ”. In 1931 he warned against an "artificially bred male woman".

During the National Socialist era , Sellheim was a member of the NSDAP's ring of sacrifices , a supporting member of the SS , SA Reserve I , the National Socialist Teachers' Association , the National Socialist People's Welfare , the Reich Association of German Civil Servants and the Old Man of the National Socialist German Student Association . Apparently he did not seem reliable enough to the Nazi regime; because the district chairman of the National Socialist Medical Association demanded that Sellheim, Paul Morawitz and Erwin Payr be removed from their offices, which the Ministry in Dresden rejected.

Fonts

  • The birth of humans according to anatomical, comparative-anatomical, physiological, physical, developmental, biological and social aspects. JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1913.
  • What does the woman do for the fatherland? . F. Enke, Stuttgart 1915.
  • The Obstetric-Gynecological Exam: A Guide for Students and Doctors. JF Bergmann, Munich 1923.
  • Woman's hygiene and dietetics. JF Bergmann, Munich 1926.
  • Determination of paternity according to the law and from a scientific point of view. JF Bergmann, Munich, 1928.
  • About the importance of women's awareness for social security, along with remarks about the origin and nature of women's awareness. Zentralbl Gynäkol 53 (1929), p. 1197.
  • Modern thoughts on sexual relationships. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1929.
  • Modern thoughts on sexual relationships. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1930.
  • Mood moods in women: a medical-legal study. Enke, Stuttgart 1930.
  • Women's gymnastics in the light of functional development. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1931.
  • Women’s Menopause: Its Significance in Life. F. Enke, Stuttgart 1932.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 38/452
  2. ↑ a b Klaus-Dieter Schroth: Prof. Dr. med. Hugo Sellheim III (xx.xx), rec. December 7, 1890 . National des Corps Starkenburgia
  3. ↑ On the way carcinoma spreads in the female sexual organs through inoculation and via the lymphatic or blood pathways. Dissertation.
  4. ↑ Hugo Sellheim: Does sport make women happy? UHU of October 1931, p. 18 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Sellheim, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Biblis
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1936
Place of death Leipzig