Karl Wittmaack

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Karl Wittmaack (born January 17, 1876 in Berlin , † January 28, 1972 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German ear, nose and throat doctor. As a university lecturer he worked in Greifswald, Jena and Hamburg.

Life

Wittmaack's father Hermann Wittmaack was Senate President at the Imperial Court . He attended the New Nikolaischule Leipzig . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine from 1894 at the University of Leipzig , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1899 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He completed his training in ear, nose and throat medicine at the university clinics in Kiel, Breslau and Heidelberg. After Heidelberg he followed his teacher Werner Kümmel as 1st assistant. From April 1904 to 1908 Wittmaack worked at the Royal University of Greifswald . After the otologist Johannes Kessel retired from the University of Jena (1907), Wittmaack succeeded him. From 1908 to 1926 in this office, he continued his Greifswald research on the pathology and anatomy of the temporal bone and the inner ear . Colleagues in Jena were Wilhelm Brünings , Adolf Eckert-Möbius , Hermann Gustav Runge (1887–1942) and Johannes Zange (1880–1969). In 1924, the University of Hamburg appointed Wittmaack to the newly created chair for ear, nose and throat medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In November 1933, Wittmaack signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He wrote the recipe for a nasal ointment that was supposedly given out on every ship of the Navy . His collection of histological specimens of the temporal bone was legendary. After 1945 he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . There he devoted himself to his passion, mountaineering . He died shortly after his 96th birthday.

Honors

Works

  • About normal and pathological pneumatization of the temporal bone, including its relationship to diseases of the middle ear. Gustav Fischer 1918.
  • Otosclerosis based on our own research. Gustav Fischer 1919.
  • The ortho- and pathobiology of the labyrinth as the basis of the dystonic and dystrophic disease processes of the inner ear. Thieme, Stuttgart 1956.

literature

  • Rolf Ulrich: Karl Wittmaack - Vita, rock bone collection, publications . Diss. Univ. Hamburg 1977.
  • Adolf Eckert-Möbius: 80th Birthday anniversary of Professor Dr. Karl Wittmaack. Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, Otology and their Border Areas 35 (1956), pp. 1-2.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Eckert-Möbius: Karl Wittmaack to the memory. Archive for clinical and experimental ear, nose and larynx medicine 29. VI. (1972), Volume 201, Issue 3, pp. 270-272
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the nucleon content of cow, woman and goat milk .
  3. ^ Adolf Eckert-Möbius: Karl Wittmaack on his 60th birthday. Archive for Ear, Nose and Larynx Medicine January 10, 1936, Volume 140, Issue 4, pp. 275-277
  4. ^ History from the University of Jena
  5. ^ Member entry by Karl Wittmaack at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Wittmaack, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ear, nose and throat doctor and professor of medicine in Greifswald, Jena and Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1972
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen