Karl-Heinz Hahlbrock

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Karl-Heinz Hahlbrock (born October 14, 1917 in Hameln ; † July 27, 2003 ) was a German doctor in the field of ear, nose and throat medicine .

Life

Hahlbrock was in 1944 Freiburg in medicine doctorate and then came as a medical officer on the Eastern Front. After his release from captivity in 1947 and a year-long job in Bremen, he began working at the Freiburg Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in 1948 under Professor Fritz Zöllner. Hahlbrock was a member of the audiological working group in which he initially dealt with supra-threshold hearing tests.

Based on the American language tests developed in the 1940s (e.g. Spondee test) and work by Karl Amersbach and F. J. Meister in Düsseldorf and K. Schubert in Bonn, he began to develop word lists for a German language test . Based on statistics on the most frequent words, 20 groups of 20 monosyllabic words each were put together, with the groups having largely the same phonetic composition. As a counterpart to the polysyllabic Spondees, Hahlbrock put together groups of 10 two-digit numerals each. Here, too, the individual groups are almost phonetically identical to one another . The test material was recorded on tape by a trained speaker, creating a reproducible test material.

Hahlbrock published the result of his work in 1953 under the title On Speech Audiometry and New Word Tests , and he completed his habilitation in 1956 with his work on speech audiometry. Hahlbrock is the founder of German speech audiometry, and his “Freiburg language test” is still used today in ENT clinics and ENT practices as well as by hearing aid acousticians .

In 1965, Hahlbrock received the Ludwig Haymann Prize from the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery .

literature

  • H. Feldmann: 200 years of hearing tests with speech, 50 years of German speech audiometry - a look back . In: Laryngo-Rhino-Otology . tape 83 , 2004, pp. 735-742 , doi : 10.1055 / s-2004-825717 .
  • Karl-Heinz Hahlbrock: Speech audiometry . 2nd Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-13-340202-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Hahlbrock, Karl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahlbrock, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician in the field of ear, nose and throat medicine
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2003