Karlheinz Idelberger

Karlheinz Idelberger (born April 16, 1909 in Barmen ; † May 29, 2003 in Kaarst ) was a German physician . He mainly worked in the field of orthopedics .

Live and act

Karlheinz Idelberger studied medicine at the Universities of Würzburg , Greifswald , Innsbruck and Munich . In 1934 he passed the state examination in Munich and from 1935 was a research assistant to Ernst Rüdin at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy and Demography. In 1936, with a thesis on Friedrich Tiedemann, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From 1937 he was assistant to Karl Bragard at the Orthopedic University Clinic in Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1941 . For the habilitation thesis he received the first prize of the German Orthopedic Society .

During the Second World War he worked in the air force medical service and from 1944 in a paratrooper hospital in the Netherlands, where he was taken prisoner in Canada.

After his release he became chief physician of a hospital on Norderney in 1945, chief physician at the Westerstede hospital in 1946 and, on October 1, 1947, chief physician of the orthopedic department of the Göttingen University Clinic . In 1948 he was re- qualified in Munich, and in 1950 he became an adjunct professor . In 1953 he received a call as an associate professor at the University Hospital Gießen , where he also became director of the orthopedic clinic. In 1955 he became a personal professor. In 1960 he followed a call to the chair for orthopedics at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1977 he retired .

Karlheinz Idelberger worked primarily in the field of genetic pathology of malformations , twin research and the symptoms of pathological changes in the spine and shoulder joint . Further areas of work were the etiology and pathogenesis of congenital clubfoot and hip dysplasia , bone changes in leukemia , arthroplasty of the hip joint , the prevention of sports injuries to the knee joint and the treatment of bone tumors in childhood and poliomyelitis .

His most important work was the Orthopedics Textbook , which appeared in several editions from 1970 and was also translated into Italian.

Karlheinz Idelberger was a member of the Association Française d'Orthopédie from 1950 and was made an honorary member in 1978 . In 1975 he received for his intense scientific and personal contacts with the Japanese Orthopedic Society an honorary professor of the University of Kurume and became an honorary member of the Association of Orthopedists of Kyushu .

Fonts

Karlheinz Idelberger published over 100 publications in scientific journals and edited volumes.

• Friedrich Tiedemann's contribution to the anatomy of the brain. Dissertation. University of Munich 1936. Springer, Berlin 1936, DNB 570742560 .
• The twin pathology of the congenital clubfoot. Enke, Stuttgart 1939, DNB 363982418 .
• The genetic pathology of the so-called congenital hip dislocation. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1951, DNB 452190207 .
• (Ed.): Orthopedic diseases of childhood. Volume 3 by Anton Oberniedermayr (ed.): Textbook of surgery and orthopedics for children. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1959, DNB 452768845 .
• Orthopedics textbook. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1970, DNB 457050659 . 4th edition 1984, ISBN 3-540-12600-7 .

Italian: Manuale di ortopedia. From the German by Francesco Pipino. EG, Bologna 1983, OCLC 900063589 .

literature

• Silke Hausmann, Max Plassmann (editing): Estate of Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Idelberger (1909–2003) (= finding aids of the University Archives Düsseldorf. No. 21). University archive Düsseldorf, 2003 (PDF; 59 kB, with a short biography of Karlheinz Idelberger on p. 3).
• Em. Prof. Idelberger has passed away. In: Magazine of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. 3/2003, p. 45 (PDF; 3.6 MB, with picture).
• Nadim Victor Khalisi: Peter Pitzen (1886–1977). His life and work in Giessen and Münster. Dissertation. University of Giessen 2006 (PDF; 20.1 MB, with a short biography of Karlheinz Idelberger on p. 124, footnote 6).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karlheinz Idelberger in the catalog of the German National Library