Julius Kraft-Kinz

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Julius Kraft-Kinz (born December 13, 1925 in Innsbruck ; † May 31, 2018 in Graz ) was an Austrian surgeon. He was professor emeritus for surgery at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz .

After receiving his doctorate in general medicine at the University of Innsbruck on February 3, 1951 , he completed his surgical apprenticeship with his uncle Rudolf Kraft in Düren and joined the University Clinic for Surgery in Graz in 1956. On November 19, 1962, he and Franz Spath performed the first heart operation in Austria using a heart- lung machine . In 1970 he succeeded Franz Spath as head of the Univ. Clinic for Surgery of the LKH Graz and built a. a. the department system.

On March 12, 1984, Kraft-Kinz and Bruno Rigler conducted the first heart transplant in Graz, with the patient surviving the operation by eight weeks. Kraft-Kinz brought children's heart surgery and heart surgery to a high standard that is not only recognized in Austria. Kraft-Kinz was replaced by Karlheinz Tscheliessnigg in 1996 after 26 years as head of the clinic.

In 1997 he was awarded the Great Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Styria with the star . In 2016 he received the Auenbrugger Cross of Honor from the Medical University of Graz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Part in the Kleine Zeitung (accessed on June 5, 2018)
  2. ↑ Article from Chirurgie, issue 4/2010  ( 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. (PDF; 3.3 MB), BÖC Vienna.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.boec.at  
  3. ↑ Press release of the LKH Univ. Klinikum Graz on the 50th anniversary (PDF; 1.4 MB), last viewed on October 13, 2012.
  4. ↑ Raimund Margreiter , Transplantation in Austria - a historical review , in: "Austrian Transplant Journal", issue 1/2017 ( online )
  5. ^ Medical University of Graz: The history of the Graz Univ. Clinic for Surgery , here online , last viewed on November 22, 2015.
  6. ↑ Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz - University Directorate - Mitteilungsblatt 1997/98, here online ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on February 5, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kfunigraz.ac.at
  7. ↑ Cross of Honor: Julius Kraft-Kinz . ( medunigraz.at [accessed on February 2, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Kraft-Kinz, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2018
Place of death Graz