Ludwig Wullstein

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Ludwig Louis Wullstein (born April 22, 1864 in Leopoldshall ; † October 11, 1930 in Essen ) was a German surgeon.

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Wullstein first attended the Staßfurt Citizens' School and then went to high schools in Halberstadt and Bernburg to prepare for the school-leaving exam. After graduating from high school in 1887 at the Knight Academy (Brandenburg an der Havel) , Wullstein studied medicine at the University of Leipzig . In the meantime, however, from 1887 to 1888, he initially served the first half of the year as a one-year volunteer military doctor. Then he continued his studies at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . Since 1888 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg . In 1891 Wullstein was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . The second half of his year of service followed. Then in 1892 Wullstein took up an assistant position at the pathological institute of the University of Göttingen. In 1894 he moved to the local surgical university clinic as a trainee doctor. Trained as a surgeon at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , he was one of the first in Germany to deal with scoliosis . Later he was entrusted with an assistant doctor's position and in 1898 was given the opportunity to study at the Inselspital . Then followed a stay in Paris around 1900 . In 1902 he was for surgery and orthopedics habilitation . Since 1906 professor at the University of Halle , he became chief physician of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum in 1913 . During the First World War Wullstein served as an advisory surgeon in the VII Army Corps. After the war he returned to the Bochum hospital as chief physician. In 1913 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His textbook on surgery , edited with Max Wilms , set standards for half a century. He is the father of the ENT doctor Horst Ludwig Wullstein .

Works

  • Max Wilms, Ludwig Louis Wullstein: Textbook of surgery. Vol. 1. General Part, 1923, 8., revised. Ed.
  • Max Wilms, Ludwig Louis Wullstein: Textbook of surgery. Bd. 2. Surgery of the spine, pelvis, etc. of the extremities, 1923, 8., redesigned. Ed.

See also

Web links

  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Louis (Ludwig) Wullstein [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 143/319.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The position of the face .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The justification for the treatment of kyphoscoliosis through forced redressement after medical-clinical examinations and experiments on cadavers .
  4. ^ Member entry of Ludwig Wullstein (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  5. ↑ Textbook of surgery , 10 editions, Jena 1908–1951.
personal data
SURNAME Wullstein, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wullstein, Ludwig Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, orthopedist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Leopoldshall
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1930
Place of death eat