Julius Bruck (physician)

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Julius Bruck, around 1880
Grave of Julius Bruck in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Breslau
The urethroscope and stomatoscope.

Julius Bruck (born October 6, 1840 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † April 20, 1902 in Breslau) was a German dentist and researcher. He is considered a pioneer of endoscopy thanks to his development of the stomatoscope for x-raying the teeth and the urethroscope for x-raying the bladder with galvanic incandescent light .

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Bruck was a son of the Breslau dentist Jonas Bruck (1813-1883). He studied medicine and dentistry at the University of Breslau in Berlin, Bonn and Paris; was in 1858 in Berlin, the state examination as a dentist, received his doctorate in 1866 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for Doctor of Medicine and acquired in 1870, the approval of a doctor. In 1859 he became an assistant doctor in his father's dental practice in Wroclaw, and in 1871 he completed his habilitation in the Medical Faculty in Wroclaw with a thesis on the pathology and histology of the tooth pulp . A dental treatise for the purpose of his habilitation as a private docent of the highly commendable medical faculty of the Royal University of Breslau and received the title of professor in 1891.

The burial took place in the Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw.

Works

  • Nonnulla de illa vi, quam uroscopia ad diagnosin morborum habet. Storch, Breslau 1859 (dissertation, University of Breslau, 1859).
  • The urethroscope for illuminating the bladder and its neighboring parts - and the stomatoscope for illuminating the teeth and their neighboring parts with galvanic incandescent light. Maruschke & Behrendt, Breslau 1867; french 1868.
  • The congenital and acquired defects of the face, the jaw, the hard and soft palate, closed in an artificially plastic way, and presented to doctors, surgeons and dentists. Kern, Breslau 1870.
  • Contributions to the histology and pathology of the tooth pulp. A dental treatise. Kern, Breslau 1871 (habilitation thesis, University of Breslau, 1871).

literature

  • Bruck, Julius . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) . 1st edition. tape 2 : Bohacz – Ebhardt . KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-23162-8 , p. 149 .
  • Markus Eric Walter: The wound doctor and dentist Julius Bruck (1840–1902), his “urethroscope” and “stomatoscope” and their significance for the development of endoscopy. Inaugural dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
  • Barbara Bruziewicz-Mikłaszewska: Professor Julius Bruck (1840–1902) Wrocław physician and dentist-pionier of european endoscopy - on his 100 death anniversary. Prace Historyczne, Katedra i Zakład Protetyki Stomatologicznej AM we Wrocławiu, Breslau 2003. (Polish: dbc.wroc.pl PDF; 205 kB).
  • Thaddäus Zajaczkowski , Andreas Paul Zamann: Julius Bruck (1840–1902). His contribution to the further development of endoscopy. Der Urologe, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2002, pp. 35-39.
  • Julius Pagel : Bruck, Julius . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, column  258 .
  • Bruck, Julius. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.

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SURNAME Bruck, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dentist and pioneer of endoscopy
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1902
Place of death Wroclaw