Karl Amersbach

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Karl Friedrich Amersbach (born October 6, 1884 in Konstanz , † April 6, 1952 in Barcelona , Spain ) was a German physician and university professor .

Life

Amersbach was the son of the high school professor Karl Amersbach from Konstanz and his wife Karoline nee Kieffer. After attending grammar schools in Baden-Baden and Freiburg im Breisgau , he studied medicine at the universities of Strasbourg, Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1903. In 1908 he graduated as Dr. med. and then worked as an ear, nose and throat doctor . In 1917 he completed his habilitation with Otto Kahler in Freiburg.

In 1917 Amersbach became a private lecturer and in 1921 an extraordinary professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1927 he was appointed full professor of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology at the German University of Prague . In this function he became the board member of the Association of German Otorhinolaryngologists in Czechoslovakia . In Prague in 1939 he saw the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . He then returned to the German Reich and worked from then until his death in 1952 as head of the ENT clinic of the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf. In 1940 he set up a phoniatric department in Düsseldorf. Amersbach died during a trip to Spain. From 1951 until his death he was rector of the University of Düsseldorf . In 1940 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Karl Mündnich and Herbert Greven were among his students .

family

Karl Amersbach was married to Maria Donius. Their son Otto (* 1927) emerged from their marriage.

Fonts (selection)

In the 1920s he worked on the development of the multi-volume handbook of ear, nose and throat medicine including the border areas , which was published by J. Springer in Berlin. He also published:

  • Medical expert activity in the field of ear medicine (= handbook of medical expert activity, volume 4, part 2), Berlin, Vienna, 1931.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany , 2013, p. 66f.
  2. ^ Member entry of Karl Amersbach at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Amersbach, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amersbach, Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1952
Place of death Barcelona , Spain