Karl Schuchardt (physician)

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Karl Albert Schuchardt (born December 24, 1901 in Itzehoe ; † April 5, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German oral and maxillofacial surgeon and university professor.

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Karl Schuchardt was born in Itzehoe / Holstein in 1901 as the son of a dentist. After attending school and graduating from high school, he studied medicine and dentistry in Freiburg, Kiel and Munich. He received his doctorate in Kiel in 1928 as Dr. med. and in 1930 Dr. med. dent. After a short dental activity in his own practice in Itzehoe, he completed his specialist training in Berlin.

In 1934 he settled in Berlin as a specialist in oral surgery and took over the management of the oral surgery department at St. Norbert Hospital in Schöneberg. At the beginning of the war he became the chief doctor of a large reserve hospital for facial injuries in Berlin-Tempelhof and also in the auxiliary hospital in Seebad Mariendorf . Schuchardt completed his habilitation in 1944 with Professor Hofer in Berlin.

In 1946 he became director of the Northwest German Kieferklinik in Eilbeck General Hospital and professor of dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine in the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf . Schuchardt retired in 1970 after 25 years as director of the clinic. Several years of operational activity followed in my own practice in Hamburg. He died on April 5, 1985.

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