Lutz Jani

Lutz Jani (born January 25, 1935 in Dresden ; † September 13, 2019 in Basel ) was a German orthopedist and university lecturer in Basel and Mannheim.

Life

Growing up in Munich, Jani studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University from 1954 . He was reciprocated in the Corps Bavaria Munich in 1955 and distinguished himself as a senior . In the meantime at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , he became a Dr. med. PhD. After two years as a medical assistant , he received his license to practice medicine in 1962 . He completed his four-year training in orthopedics with Max Lange and Nikolaus Witt . Even then he was concerned with hip dysplasia and Perthes disease . In 1969 he went to the orthopedic clinic of the University Hospital Basel as a senior physician . He completed his habilitation and in May 1973 became the head physician in the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics . On July 3, 1973 he received the license to teach . Deputy Clinic Director since 1975, he was appointed associate professor on December 9, 1980 . The Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg appointed him on April 20, 1982 to the new chair for orthopedics at the University Hospital Mannheim . In 1987 he was chairman of the 35th annual conference of the southern German orthopedists in Baden-Baden. In 1991/92 he was President of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery . In 1992 he chaired their annual congress in the Rosengarten (Mannheim) . He retired on September 30, 2000 . He was General Secretary of the DGOOC (1999–2002) and was committed to bringing together orthopedics and trauma surgery

Works

• with George Chapchal and Boštjan Dolanc: Orthopedic medical examination . Enke, Stuttgart 1971.
• with Peter Griss: The operative treatment of scoliosis according to Harrington . Journal of Orthopedics and their Border Areas 123 (1985), pp. 847-851.
• with Karl-Ludwig Krämer: The operation after Elmslie-Trillat . Operative Orthopädie und Traumatologie 3 (1991), pp. 38-48.
• with Ferdinand Klimt, Manfred Betz and EG Huber: Sports medicine in children and adolescents . Thieme, Stuttgart 1992.
• with Karl-Ludwig Krämer, Martin Stock, Michael Winter, Ludwig W. Ackermann and Gerda Raichle: Clinical Guide Orthopedics - Examination, Diagnostics, Therapy, Emergency . Neckarsulm 1993.
• Spontaneous course of orthopedic diseases . The orthopedist 23 (1994)
• Hip arthroplasty - the past, the tried and tested and the future. Mannheim symposium on the reopening of the orthopedic clinic . Munich 1996.
• with Peter Arnold, Michael Winter, Gerhard Scheller, W. Konermann and D. Rumetsch: Clinical and radiological results of osteosynthesis of the vertebral lamina for lumbar spondylolysis and minor form of spondylolisthesis in childhood and adolescents . Journal for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery 134 (1996), pp. 226-232.
• Arthritis and osteomyelitis in growing age . The Orthopedist 26 (1997)
• Hip replacement in rheumatism . The orthopedist 27 (1998)

Honors

• Erich Lexer Prize (2000)
• Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach bust (2002)
• Honorary member
  • Czech Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology (1996)
  • Austrian Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (1999)
  • German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (2003)

literature

• Hanns-Peter Scharff: Prof. Dr. med. Lutz Jani on his 80th birthday . Journal of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery 4 (2015), p. 75.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 13/1734.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Relationship between increased erythropoiesis and iron metabolism .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon
4. ^ Past annual meetings of the Association of South German Orthopedists
5. ↑ Peter Arnold, Gerhard Scheller, Peter Schütz and Ralph Wetzel: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Lutz Jani. Use for hip dysplasia . Announcements from DGOOC 10/1 (2020), p. 57.
6. ↑ Dieffenbach bust (DGU)