Julius von Szymanowski

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Julius v. Szymanowski

Julius Alfons Nikolai Szymanowski (born February 10, 1829 in Riga , † April 25, 1868 in Kiev ) was a surgeon of Polish-German descent and worked in Russia .

Life

Julius Szymanowski came from an in Duchy of Courland and Semigallia based Polish nobility sfamilie which took the German nationality and Lutheran denomination over the generations. He was born as the son of the civil servant Carl Szymanowsky and his wife Helene. Kutzky born.

He attended high school in Reval from 1841 to 1850 . From 1850 to 1856 he studied medicine at the University of Dorpat with Georg von Adelmann and received his doctorate in 1856. While still a student, he was posted to Estonia for military service in 1855 . Back in Dorpat, he became an assistant at the surgical clinic in 1856 and a private lecturer in 1857. In 1858 he was appointed associate professor of surgery at Helsingfors University. On August 27, 1860, he married Adelaide von Rambach, daughter of an artillery colonel. In 1861 he was appointed associate professor and then full professor of war surgery at the University of Kiev .

In 1863 he took part in the suppression of the Polish January uprising as a war surgeon . In 1866 he developed testicular cancer and died in 1868 at the age of 39. He was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery in Kiev .

A collection of his poetry appeared posthumously (under the pseudonym Julius Steinborn).

Importance as a surgeon

Szymanowski invented a resection saw , which he described in detail in his doctoral thesis. He also invented the somatometer, a device for anthropometric measurements.

Julius von Szymanowski mainly dealt with plastic surgery and the treatment of broken bones. His manual of operative surgery is considered to be one of the most important works of its kind in the 19th century. He was particularly successful in the field of rhinoplasty .

Through his active contacts with German colleagues and as a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , he contributed to publicizing recent medical achievements in the Russian Empire . He revised the handbook Surgical Anatomy of Arterial Trunks and Fascia by Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogow and translated it into German.

  • Operative Surgery Manual

  • Resection saw

  • Nasal surgery

  • Ear surgery

Fonts

  • Additamenta ad ossium resectionem. Dissertatio inauguralis / quam consensu et auctoritate gratiosi medicorum ordinis in Universitate Literarum Caesarea Dorpatensi ad gradum doctoris medicinae rite adipiscendum loco consueto palam defendet auctor Julius Szymanowski . JC Schünmann & C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1856 (German translation of the Latin title: "Additions, concerning the resection of bones. Inaugural dissertation, which the author Julius Szymanowski with the gracious consent of the College of Doctors at the Imperial University of Dorpat in front of all Eyes defended in the usual place in order to obtain the degree of doctor of medicine according to the regulations ”).
  • Adnotationes ad rhinoplasticen. Commentatio / quam consensu et auctoritate gratiosi medicorum ordinis in Universitate Literarum Caesarea Dorpatensi ad veniam legendi rite impetrandam palam defendet auctor Julius Szymanowski . JC Schünmann & C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1857 (German translation of the Latin title: "Notes, concerning the rhinoplasty. Explanation which the author Julius Szymanowski defended with the gracious consent of the College of Doctors at the Imperial University of Dorpat, around the To obtain a teaching license in accordance with the regulations ”).
  • The gypsum bandage, with special emphasis on military surgery . Eggers & Co., St. Petersburg 1857.
  • Desmological pictures for self-teaching: 198 illustrations on 27 panels, by Dr. Szymanowski, private docent at the Imperial University of Dorpat, assistant doctor of the chir. Clinic there; Drawn on stone by C. Schulz . Dorpat 1857.
    • 2nd edition under the title: Desmological pictures for doctors and students . F. Kluge, Reval 1858.
    • Russian translation: Краткое руководство к практическим упражнениям в десмологии для врачей и студентов . Typographic Institute of the University, Kiev 1862.
  • Contributions to resection of the bones . In: Zeitschrift für klinische Medicin , Vol. 8 (1857), pp. 1-35.
  • The return of the function of the hand . In: Medical Newspaper of Russia , No. 8 (1857), pp. 179-181.
  • For plastic surgery . In: Vierteljahrschrift für die Praxis Heilkunde , No. 60 (1858), pp. 127–152.
  • Resection of the foot, a modification of Pirogoff's osteoplasty . In: Medical Newspaper of Russia , No. 16 (1859), pp. 73-76.
  • Contribution to amputation along with experience of immersion and irrigation . In: Vierteljahrschrift für die Praxis Heilkunde , No. 65 (1860), pp. 55-1010.
  • For conservative surgery . In: Deutsche Klinik , Vol. 12 (1860), pp. 211-214.
  • About resection and transplantation of the periosteum for amputations . In: Official report on the fifth and thirtieth gathering of German natural scientists and doctors in Königsberg in Prussia in September 1860 . Published by Wilhelm von Wittich . Königsberg 1861, pp. 193-196.
  • Death by asphyxiation by means of a gag also by brandy (an alcoholic happiness): a sketch from the forensic medical practice in the light of surgical experience . Simelius, Helsingfors 1861.
  • Critique of partial foot amputations based on a new anatomical interpretation of the architecture of the foot . In: Archive for Clinical Surgery , Volume 1 (1861), pp. 366-407.
  • About Gyps and Water in Surgery . In: Archiv der Heilkunde , Vol. 3 (1862), pp. 339, 395.
  • On the casuistry of surgical plastic . In: Archiv der Heilkunde , Vol. 3 (1862), pp. 517-529.
  • Clinical experience with partial sternum resection . In: Deutsche Klinik , Vol. 15 (1863), pp. 306-308.
  • The adhesion of the soft palate with the posterior wall of the pharynx . In: Vierteljahrschrift für die Praxis Heilkunde , No. 81 (1864), pp. 59–67.
  • About some acquired and congenital defects in and on the genitals of childless married couples . In: Vierteljahrschrift für die Praxis Heilkunde , No. 83 (1864), pp. 1–30.
  • About neurectomy and nerve suturing . In: Vierteljahrschrift für die Praxis Heilkunde , No. 88 (1866), pp. 52–71.
  • Hernia lateralis (!) Cerebri [in one case the encephalocele only recognized during the operation, the latter interrupted with the preservation of life, in a second case the diagnosis is already possible through the skin coverings] . In: Archive for clinical surgery , vol. 6 (1866), pp. 787-790.
  • About the Gritti operation . In: Centralblatt für die Medicinischen Wissenschaften , Vol. 4 (1866), pp. 2-4.
  • Successful olecranon and patella transplants . In: Centralblatt für die Medicinischen Wissenschaften , Vol. 4 (1866), pp. 529-531.
  • The “wild” amputation in our day . In: St. Petersburger medicinische Wochenschrift , No. 11 (1866), pp. 321-342 and No. 13 (1867), pp. 45-52.
  • One more word about the gypsum bandage, the falsely called “lazy in surgery” . In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift , No. 4 (1867), p. 371.
  • The methodical link removal . In: Deutsche Klinik , vol. 19 (1867), p. 27.
  • What i lived. Songs . Meyer, Braunschweig 1868.
  • with Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Uhde : Handbook of operative surgery . F. Vieweg & Son, Braunschweig 1870.

literature

  • Isidorus Brennsohn: Estonia's Doctors from the Beginning of Historical Times to the Present. A biographical lexicon . Neuner, Riga 1922, pp. 343-344.

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Julius von Szymanowski. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ↑ Isidorus Brennsohn: The doctors of Estonia from the beginning of historical time to the present. Riga 1922.
  3. ↑ a b Julius Szymanowski: Additamenta ad ossium resectionem . JC Schünmann & C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1856.
  4. ^ Robert Alfred Renvall: Biografiska Anteckningar Fver Det Finska Universitets Lrare, Embets-Och Tjenstemn. BiblioBazaar, 2009, ISBN 978-1-110-04282-1 .
  5. ↑ Julius Szymanowski: A somatometer and its application . In: Vierteljahrschrift für die Praxis Heilkunde , No. 76 (1862), pp. 1–25.
  6. ^ Julius von Szymanowski: Travel sketches from the surgical clinics in Germany . In: Medical Newspaper of Russia , No. 17 (1860), pp. 17, 25, 33, 41.
  7. ↑ Desmology = study of ribbons, bandages and bandages.

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SURNAME Szymanowski, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szymanowski, Julius Alfons Nikolai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Surgeon of German descent, active in Russia
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1868
Place of death Kiev