Lothar Heidenhain
Lothar Heidenhain (born September 8, 1860 in Breslau ; died July 24, 1940 in Worms ) was a German surgeon .
Life
Heidenhain was probably the oldest child of a respected family in Breslau. His father Rudolf Heidenhain was physiologist and professor at the University . His mother Fanny was the daughter of Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann , who also worked as a physiologist . His brothers were the anatomist Martin and the historian and librarian Arthur Heidenhain . He also embarked on a medical career and studied in Freiburg im Breisgau , Breslau and Halle an der Saale , where he received his doctorate in 1886.
As a surgeon he was a student of Richard von Volkmann , Heinrich Helferich and Ernst Küster . After his admission to practice as a doctor in 1884, von Küster was an assistant from 1886 to 1890, who at the time was chief surgeon at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital in Berlin and promoted experimental cancer research . During this time, Heidenhain made a special contribution to research into breast cancer . At that time, attempts were made for the first time to follow the local spread of a tumor microscopically and then to determine the operating area. In 1889 he published in this context the following work under the title About the causes of local cancer recurrences after Amputatio Mammae in the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie . This work also contains the first description and illustration of the embolic infection of the lymph nodes by cancer cells washed in from the adjacent connective tissue. The findings postulated here still determine the procedure for the complete surgical removal of the affected breast (radical operation).
After his time in Berlin, he took on a position as a secondary doctor from 1890 , with which a professorship was connected ex officio at the surgical clinic in Greifswald . In 1897 he was offered the management of the city hospital in Worms . Here he continued to do research in the areas of arthrotomy and spread of carcinoma . In Worms he successfully performed the first lower lobe resection of a patient with bronchiectasis and carcinoma on his lungs . In 1902 he managed the first successful operation of a diaphragmatic hernia in the Worms . From 1913 he carried out radiation therapy experiments, which he systematically advanced from 1920 together with Carl Fried and made both famous as the founders of inflammatory radiation using X-rays . After 28 years as director of the Worms city hospital, he retired in 1925.
Services
- On March 6, 1902, he was the first to succeed in an operation for a congenital diaphragmatic hernia .
- In 1903, the first resection of a lung carcinoma followed after a chance finding during a lobectomy for bronchiectasis .
- The use of silver plates to close cranioplasty defects, which is still common today, goes back to him and bears his name as the so-called Heidenhain plastic .
Publications
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- 1886 - About arthrotomy and arthrectomy . Breitkopf and Härtel publishing house
- 1889 - About the causes of local cancer recurrences after Amputatio Mammae . In: Langenbeck's archive for clinical surgery , Volume 39, pp. 97–166
- 1924 - X-ray exposure and inflammation . Julius Springer publishing house.
- 1928 - About the problem of malignant tumors . Julius Springer publishing house.
In addition, further publications in various specialist journals, such as the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie and in the German Journal for Surgery .
reception
Despite his great achievements, Lothar Heidenhain is only known in specialist circles (as of 2017). This is mainly due to the fact that after the Nazis " seized power ", because of his Jewish descent, he was only cited in exceptional cases - by mistake or "when it really wasn't possible" - but practically no longer quoted. This did not change fundamentally after the end of the Second World War and the previous disregard continued.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julius Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Urban & Schwarzenberg publishing house, Berlin 1901
- ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 265.
- ↑ Torben Schröder: Hospital in the country with a brilliant reputation . In: Wormser Wochenblatt of October 27, 2018, p. 6.
- ↑ Article. In: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie , 1997, PMID 933412
- ^ Definition of Heidenhain sculpture
- ↑ Fried and Heidenhain - radiation therapy until 1928 in Worms.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heidenhain, Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1940 |
| Place of death | Worms |