Kurt Schürmann (neurosurgeon)
Kurt Friedrich Schürmann (born February 19, 1920 in Bochum ; † May 11, 2006 in Mainz ) was a German neurosurgeon .
Life
Schürmann went to school in Bochum and from 1939 studied medicine in Leipzig, Marburg and Graz (from 1941) with the medical state examination in Graz in 1945. In the same year he was awarded a doctorate in Graz. med. PhD ( on premature rupture of the bladder and its latency ). His medical studies were interrupted several times due to his use as a medic in military hospitals in Sicily.
He completed his specialist training (simultaneously in surgery and neurosurgery) at the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum-Langendreer , where Wilhelm Tönnis was his teacher. In 1951 he became a specialist in surgery and neurosurgery, took over neurosurgery at the University of Munich as a representative of Eduard Weber in 1951/52, then went back to Tönnis at the University of Cologne and completed his habilitation in Mainz in 1955 ( The clinical symptomatology of the space-enhancing processes of the frontal lobes: a report on 335 cases with regard to the anatomical preferred locations , Mainz 1958).
In Mainz he was head of neurosurgery from 1955 (at that time still the - only - assistant). In 1958 he became associate professor in Mainz and in 1963 full professor for neurosurgery in Mainz. In 1969/70 he was dean of the medical faculty. He turned down calls to Cologne (as successor to Tönnis) and Würzburg. In 1988 he retired.
In 1988 he received the Fedor Krause Medal . 1972 to 1974 he was President of the German Society for Neurosurgery . He received the Poppelreuter Gold Medal from the Association of the Brain Injured and in 1993 the Medal of Honor from the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. He was Honorary President of the Japanese Society of Neurosurgery and the North American Skull Base Society, and in 1995 he was Honorary President of the 10th Congress of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. (EANS) and 1975 to 1979 Vice President of EANS.
As a neurosurgeon, he dealt in particular with extrapyramidal hyperkinesis , tumors in the frontal lobe and in the eye socket (orbital tumors ), with blood flow to the brain and cerebral edema, and with neurosurgical pain therapy.
In 1981 Schürmann and 14 co-signers signed the controversial Heidelberg Manifesto . This warned, among other things, of the "infiltration of the German people".
The German Society for Skull Base Surgery set up a Kurt Schürmann lecture in 1999 . In 1970 he was one of the founders of the Skull Base Surgery Working Group, which in 1979 became the Skull Base Study Group, of which he was the first president. He made international contacts early on, especially in Scandinavia, and in 1958 became a corresponding member of the Scandinavian Society for Neurosurgery. He was also a corresponding member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the British Society of Neurological Surgeons.
His students include Madjid Samii , Hans-Jürgen Reulen , Hermann Dietz and Mario Brock (who was an assistant in Mainz).
Since he also trained a number of Brazilian neurosurgeons, he received an honorary doctorate from Paraiba University in 1971.
literature
- Klaus Roosen, Hans Arnold: Kurt Friedrich Schürmann (February 19, 1920– May 11, 2006), Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc, Central Journal for Neurosurgery, Volume 67, 2006, pp. 155-156, online
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Schürmann lecture
- ↑ Roosen, Arnold, Zentralblatt für Neurosirurgie, Volume 27, 2006, p. 156
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schürmann, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schürmann, Kurt Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neurosurgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 2006 |
| Place of death | Mainz |