Karsten Rotte

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Karsten Rotte (born November 21, 1929 in Chemnitz ; † July 26, 1997 in Würzburg ) was a German gynecologist, radiation oncologist and university professor in Würzburg.

Life

As the son of the lawyer Heinz Rotte and his wife Elfriede, Rotte attended elementary and secondary school in Stollberg / Erzgeb. until his Abitur in 1948. In the same year he followed his father to the west in Braunschweig . He studied medicine in Würzburg and in 1951 the Corps Moenania Würzburg recipiert . He spent a semester at the University of Innsbruck . After the state examination in 1956 he was a medical assistant in pathology (Prof. Kirsch) and in the medical outpatient clinic (Prof. Franke). After receiving his doctorate in 1957, he spent three years as a postgraduate at the women's clinics in Madison (Wisconsin) and Minneapolis (Minnesota). In 1960 he returned to the women's clinic in Würzburg. In 1961, its director Horst Schwalm sent Rotte to Karl Heinrich Bauer for further training . Rotte came back as a specialist in 1965 and was entrusted with the management of the radiation department. In 1972 he completed his habilitation in radiology and radiation medicine . The unscheduled (1978) professorship followed in 1981 . The son and daughter from the first marriage became doctors. Rot's second wife Hanneliese was a microbiologist in Würzburg. In 1960 he had received the ribbon of the Corps Lusatia Breslau .

science

From 1971, Rotte introduced the high-dose-rate afterloading method in brachytherapy for uterine cancer in Germany . The warnings of the radiation biologists and the adherence to the radium by the gynecologists and gynecoradiologists opposed this. The first publication in the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology in 1973 went unnoticed. The breakthrough came in 1974 at the workshop on afterloading in Würzburg. The radiation department of the Würzburg University Women's Clinic became a pioneer in afterloading. Lectures at national and international conferences, numerous publications and manual contributions and several monographs made Rotte known. Before his 65th birthday, Rotte was bid farewell by his employees in November 1994 with a conference at Marienberg Fortress .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 141/903; 81/508.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Quantitative investigations on the diaphragm in chronic substantial pulmonary emphysema
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Influence of the radiation sensitivity of the DS carcinosarcoma of the rat by immune reactions
  4. ^ Concepts in Gynecological Radiation Oncology
personal data
SURNAME Rotte, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1997
Place of death Wurzburg