Johann Christian Friedrich Trendelenburg

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Johann Christian Friedrich Trendelenburg (born August 26, 1916 in Berlin ; † September 7, 2004 in Basel ) was a German pulmonologist , co-founder of the Saarland Cancer Center and the Homburg Tumor Center. He taught at the Homburg University Hospital .

Life

Trendelenburg was born in 1916 as the first of four children of the Prussian Ministerialrat Friedrich Trendelenburg and his wife Margret (née Schwartz). After graduating from Schiller-Gymnasium in Berlin , Trendelenburg studied human medicine in Lausanne , Königsberg , Munich and Berlin and then did a doctorate. A long-standing tuberculosis disease took him to Davos (Switzerland), where he became senior physician at the Wolfgang sanatorium and later also head physician. In 1963 he founded the Scientific Working Group for the Therapy of Lung Diseases with other doctors and was its first chairman (until 1994).

In 1964 he moved to Homburg as a senior physician in the Department of Pneumology at the First Medical Clinic at Saarland University . There he completed his habilitation with a thesis on chemotherapy for tuberculosis. This was followed by the appointment of full professor of internal medicine. In 1969 Trendelenburg was appointed director of the pulmonology department. During his tenure, he campaigned intensively for a subdivision of the medical departments in Homburg. He also became a founding member of the Paul Ehrlich Society for Chemotherapy and the Societas Europaea Pathophysiologiae Clinicae Respiratoriae and was a co-founder of the Saarland Cancer Center and the Homburg Tumor Center.

In 1985 he retired. Subsequently, he was President of the German Central Committee for Combating Tuberculosis in 1985/86 and President of the annual congress of the German Society for Pneumology in 1986 . Trendelenburg died in Basel in 2004 at the age of 88.

Awards

Publications

  • with Otto Düggeli: The spinal column tuberculosis . JR Geigy, Basel 1957
  • Variety of pneumonia . Lectures of the scientific congress of the South German Society for Pneumology and Tuberculosis, Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7773-0507-3
  • with Michael Austgen: Diseases of the respiratory system . 2 volumes, Springer, Berlin 1985
  • with Bernd Kessler: Stop smoking! . Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-581-66572-7
  • Signals from the soul: correctly interpret and heal illnesses . Econ-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-612-20495-5

literature

  • Gerhard W. Sybrecht: In memoriam Friedrich Trendelenburg . In: Saarländisches Ärzteblatt 11/2004, p. 44f

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personal data
SURNAME Trendelenburg, Johann Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pulmonologist and university professor at the Homburg University Hospital
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2004
Place of death Basel