Karl-Ewald Herlyn

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Karl-Ewald Herlyn (1955)

Karl-Ewald Herlyn (born March 10, 1902 in Pewsum , East Frisia, † June 2, 1975 in Göttingen ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Career

Karl-Ewald Herlyn was born the son of the country doctor Sunke Herlyn.

After attending Wilhelmsgymnasium in Emden and graduating from high school in 1921, he studied medicine in Tübingen, Greifswald, Munich and Göttingen and passed the state examination in Göttingen in 1926.

He spent the practical year at the University Clinic Göttingen and at the German Hospital in London.

After receiving his doctorate in 1927, he began his further training at the surgical university clinic in Göttingen, where he qualified as a lecturer in surgery and orthopedics in 1935. In 1937 he was appointed senior physician at the surgical university clinic, and in 1942 he was appointed professor. His focus was on vascular and reconstructive surgery.

Herlyn had been the medical director of the Rohns and Neu-Bethlehem hospital in Göttingen since 1939 and a consultant surgeon in the surrounding hospitals; since 1933 he had been a member of the NSDAP and the SA and was a member of the NS Medical Association . After the war, in 1945, he was appointed acting head of the Göttingen University Surgical Clinic for two years. Here he founded the physiotherapy school at the University of Göttingen.

From 1945 until his retirement in 1967 he also served as chief physician of the surgical clinic of the New Bethlehem Hospital .  

As a successor to the Göttingen military hospitals, Herlyn co-founded the Göttingen-Weende Evangelical Hospital in 1950 . In addition to providing health care for the population, the objective was to provide medical care for returnees and refugees who came via the Friedland transit camp . Here, too, Herlyn was the chief physician of the surgical clinic until his retirement.

Honors

Fonts

  • X-ray diagnostics internship - Munich: JF Lehmanns Verlag, 1937
  • Reconstructive surgery, in particular the use of roll flap plastic - Stuttgart: Thieme, 1949

literature

  • General and special surgical operation theory founded by Martin Kirschner, eds. N. Guleke and R. Zenker, 2nd edition, volume 4, pp. 497-745; Springer Verlag 1956
  • Errors and dangers in surgical operations, Eds. R. Stich and KH Bauer, 3rd edition, volume 1, pp. 1-42; Gustav Fischer Verlag 1954

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traudel Weber-Reich: Nursing and healing in Göttingen: the Bethlehem Diakonissenanstalt from 1866 to 1966. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 9783525854235 , p. 184.
  2. ↑ Traudel Weber-Reich: Care and Healing in Göttingen. The Bethlehem Deaconess Institution from 1866 to 1966 . Studies on the history of the city of Göttingen. tape 22 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-85423-4 , pp. 184-185 .
personal data
SURNAME Herlyn, Karl-Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Pewsum , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1975
Place of death Goettingen