Ludwik Rydygier

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Ludwig Anton Rydygier von Ruediger (born August 21, 1850 at Gut Dossoczyn near Graudenz as Ludwig Riediger ; † June 25, 1920 in Lemberg , Galicia ) was a German-Polish surgeon , urologist and university professor . His biography stands for the interweaving of West Prussia and Poland and the supranational Catholicism of East Central Europe .

Life

As the thirteenth child of the landowner Carl Riediger and his West Prussian wife Elisabeth born. König attended the Collegium Marianum in Pelplin , from 1858 the Konitzer Gymnasium and from 1861 the Gymnasium in Culm . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the University of Greifswald from 1869 . Finding himself for the Polish language began, he was for a year relegated . He went to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Kaiser Wilhelms University in Strasbourg . Back in Greifswald, he passed the state examination in 1873. In 1874 he received his doctorate as Dr. med.

West Prussia

Since he could not find a job in Greifswald Surgery for the time being, Riediger went to Danzig . There he worked for a while in the Marian Hospital , which was run by the Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo was led. A little later he opened a doctor's practice in Culm.

In 1877 he finally got an assistant position with his revered mentor Carl Hueter in Greifswald. In 1878 he completed his habilitation at the University of Jena , where he worked as a private lecturer until 1879. From Jena, he visited the surgical clinics in Warsaw and Vienna . In 1880 he returned to Culm to run a private clinic, which was well equipped in medical and sanitary terms and also played an important role in its scientific research and teaching activities. During this time the most important of the 200 or so publications and the textbook on precise surgery were created .

On November 16, 1880, he was by Jules Péan the world's second, in a cancer patient a pylorus - resection dare. On November 21, 1881 he repeated the procedure for ulcer-related pyloric stenosis (gastric outlet obstruction).

Krakow and Lviv

Riediger officially Polonized his surname in the form Rydygier in 1887 in connection with a branch as a general practitioner in Munich. On July 2, 1887 Ludwig Riediger in Kulm was appointed full professor of surgery at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow by the Emperor of Austria . He has been using the name Rydygier in his publications for some time and has continued to do so. In 1890 he was Vice Dean of the College of Medical Professors in Cracow.

In 1897 he moved to the University of Lviv . In 23 years he developed an intensive clinical, scientific and political activity. For the academic years 1898/99 and 1911/12 he was elected Dean of the Medical Faculty. In 1901/02 he was rector . In 1903 he turned down a call from the Karl Ferdinand University . In 1906 he was a co-founder of the German Society for Urology , which elected him to the board. In 1912 he compiled his 149 publications in the original language versions.

Time after 1914

During the First World War , Rydygier worked briefly in Vienna, but then headed a military hospital in Brno until 1916 . After the restoration of the Polish statehood in 1918, he initially worked on the creation of a medical faculty at the newly created Polish University of Poznan . In 1920 he joined the Polish Army and became Chief of the Military Medical Service in Pomerania with the rank of Brigadier General ( Polish : generał podporucznik).

1920 emeritus , he wanted his native Tczew draw. During the negotiations for the sale of his property in Lviv, he died at the age of almost 70 in the office of a Lviv notary . He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in a funeral with military honors .

Honors

Memorial plaque on the house of Rydygier's private clinic in Culm

The Society of Polish Surgeons (founded by Riediger) put a plaque on the building of the Culmer Hospital in 1958. In 1970 another plaque was placed on the house of his private clinic. The museum in the old town hall has a permanent exhibition dedicated to him.

literature

  • S. Brzozowski:  Rydygier Ludwik. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 351 f. (Direct links on p. 351 , p. 352 ).
  • Pagel: Rydygier, Ludwig. in: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, col. 1453-1457.
  • Thaddäus Zajaczkowski : Ludwik von Rydygier (1850-1920) and his Contribution to the Advancement of Surgery and his Credit for Urology , in: Dirk Schultheiss: de Historia Urologiae Europaeae , vol. 15, pp. 123-154. History Office, European Association of Urology.
  • Thaddäus Zajaczkowski , Rüdiger Döhler , Anton M. Zamann: Ludwig von Riediger (Ludwik Rydygier) - a great surgeon, forgotten in Germany . Der Chirurg 84 (2013), pp. 602-606. Abstract (SpringerLink)
  • Stanisław Sokół: Ludwik Rydygier, 1850–1920. Polskie Towarzystwo Historii Medycyny, Warszawa, 1961.
  • Maciej Świtoński: Z Chełmna do Rio , in: Primum non nocere (Bulletin of the Bromberg Medical Association) 12 / 2000–1 / 2001, 10–13.

Web links

Commons : Ludwik Rydygier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Th. Zajaczkowski et al. (2013)
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Experimental contributions to the theory of the effects of carbolic acid
  3. ^ Habilitation thesis: A new method for the treatment of pseudarthroses. In: German Medical Weekly , No. 27 and 28, 1878
  4. ↑ Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift , Volume 24, 1887, p. 564
  5. ↑ L. Rydygier: Extirpation of the carcinomatous pylorus. Death after twelve hours . In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie 13 (1881), pp. 252-260. This article first appeared in Polish in Przegląd Lekarski, December 11, 1880
  6. ↑ L. Rydygier: The first gastric resection in gastric ulcer. In: Berlin clinical weekly. Volume 19, 1882, pp. 39-45.
  7. ↑ Munich Official Gazette, February 13, 1887
  8. ^ Ordinance sheet for the Cultus and Instruction division, 1887, Vienna, p. 188
  9. ^ Court and State Manual of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Volume 16, 1890, p. 823. Digitized version at the Austrian National Library
  10. ↑ Collection of Dr. Ludwig Ritter Rydygier von Ruediger, kk Hofrat and professor for surgery until now published work . Lviv 1912
  11. ↑ a b Jerzy Kałdowski: Doctor Ludwik Rydygier: 1850-1920 . Muzeum Ziemi Chełmińskiej, Chełmno, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Rydygier, Ludwik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riediger, Ludwig (birth name); Rydygier, Ludwik von; Rydygier von Ruediger, Ludwig Ritter Rydygier (self-designation after kk ennoblement)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Dossoczyn near Graudenz , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1920
Place of death Lviv , Galicia