Johannes Pfannenstiel

Johannes Pfannenstiel

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Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel (born June 28, 1862 in Berlin , † July 3, 1909 in Kiel ) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist .

In 1900 he modified the method of the transversal Caesarean section (which he called "horizontal") , which was given by Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer in 1881 and which is now named after him (Pfannenstielschnitt), by opening the fascia of the abdominal muscles transversely as well.

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The son of a bank director attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin until he was 18 years old, then studied medicine at the University of Berlin against his father's will until 1885 and received his doctorate in the same year with the grade summa cum laude . He then worked for two years as an assistant doctor at the city hospital in Poznan , then with Heinrich Fritsch at the women's clinic in Wroclaw . He completed his habilitation in 1890 and settled in a private practice in Breslau in 1894, until in 1896 he became head of the gynecological department of the Elisabethinerinnen- Hospital in Breslau and an associate professor at the University of Breslau . In 1902 he accepted a full professorship at the University of Giessen and in 1907 another to Kiel . There he died of an infection that he contracted during an operation.

Johannes Pfannenstiel was born in 1889 with Elisabeth. Behlendorff married. They had a son, the racial hygienist Wilhelm Pfannenstiel .

Fonts (selection)

• About total extirpation of the uterus. Schade, Berlin 1885 (dissertation).
• About the pseudomucins of the cystic ovarian tumors. Contribution to the teaching of paralbumin and the pathological anatomy of ovarian tumors. Engelhardt, Leipzig 1890 (habilitation thesis).
• ed. with Rudolf Chrobak : Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Berlin. 1894.
• The diseases of the ovaries. In: Johann Veit (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Gynäkologie. Vol. III / 1, 1898, pp. 239-512 ( digitized version ); 2nd edition (with Paul Kroemer) 1908.
• About the advantages of the suprasymphyseal fascia cross-section for gynecological coliotomies, at the same time a contribution to the indication of the surgical methods. In: Collection of clinical lectures. New series, No. 268, 1900, pp. 1735–1756.
• The first changes in the uterus as a result of pregnancy, the formation of the placenta, membranes, umbilical cord. In: Franz von Winckel (ed.): Handbook of obstetrics. Vol. I / 1, 1903.
• About the habitual jaundice gravis of the newborn. In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift . Vol. 55, 1908, pp. 2169-2174, 2233-2237.

literature

• Torsten Caesar: Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel (1862–1909). Representative of obstetrics and gynecology. Schmitz, Giessen 1994, ISBN 3-87711-197-1 .
• Arne Jensen: Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel (1862–1909). On the 80th anniversary of death. Biography of a great German gynecologist. In: Obstetrics and gynecology. Vol. 50, 1990, pp. 326-334, PMID 2192940 , doi: 10.1055 / s-2007-1026488 .
• Peter Voswinckel:  Pfannenstiel, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 297 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Pfannenstiel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel at Whonamedit?

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Pfannenstiel, Hermann Johannes. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1133.