Martin Allgöwer

Martin Allgöwer (born May 5, 1917 in St. Gallen ; † October 27, 2007 in Chur ) was a Swiss surgeon and university professor . As the successor to the legendary Rudolf Nissen , he was appointed to the Basel Chair of Surgery in 1967 .

Life

Allgöwer studied medicine at the University of Geneva , the University of Zurich and the University of Basel . After completing his studies, he initially devoted himself to cell biology . 1942 doctorate he in Basel to Dr. med. In the Bürgerspital Basel he then devoted himself to surgery. In 1951/52 he continued his work on histology and wound healing in Galveston (Texas) . He returned to Basel and completed his training as a surgeon. In 1955 he completed his habilitation with Rudolf Nissen. Shortly thereafter, from 1956 to 1966, he became chief physician at the Cantonal Hospital of Graubünden in Chur. Appointed in 1966, he became professor of surgery and chair of surgery at the University of Basel, and in 1967 head of the surgery department at the Basel clinic. After 16 years of service, he retired in 1983 .

Allgöwer developed new surgical methods , including the single-layer vascular anastomosis , the electrical stimulation test of the vagus nerve and closure methods after laparotomies . He gained importance as a pioneer of osteosynthesis and inventor of the Allgöwer suture . With Maurice E. Müller and the Swiss surgeon and chief physician in Liestal Hans Willenegger (1910–1998, resident in the Neu-Schauenburg estate ), he founded the working group for osteosynthesis issues in 1958 .

The National Councilor Walther Allgöwer was a brother.

See also : University of Texas System  and Allgöwer Suture

Publications (selection)

• Hans Hellner et al. a. (Ed.): Textbook of surgery. 1957 (1991).
• as Ed .: General and Special Surgery. Berlin 1971, several editions (3rd edition 1973).
• with Maurice E. Müller and Hans R. Willenegger: Manual of Osteosynthesis. 1969 (1992).

Honors

• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1969)
• Honorary doctorate from Ulm University
• Honorary doctorate from Uppsala University
• Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University Belfast
• Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich
• President of the Swiss Society for Surgery (1976)
• President of the International Society of Surgery / Société internationale de chirurgie (1979)
• President of AO International (1983)
• Marcel Benoist Prize (1987)

literature

• Urs Boschung : Allgöwer, Martin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• CV of Professor Dr. med. hc mult. Martin Allgöwer . In: The surgeon . Springer place = Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN  0009-4722 .
• Thomas Schlich: Allgöwer, Martin. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 41.

Web links

• Publications by and about Martin Allgöwer in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Martin Allgöwer in the catalog of the German National Library
• WorldCat
• 2 articles on PubMed

Individual evidence

1. ^ Occurrence, nature and significance of sulfonamide antagonists in body media . Dissertation.
2. ^ Tasks and problems of plastic surgery . Habilitation thesis.
3. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 147.
4. ↑ Thomas Schlich: Willenegger, Hans. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1499.
5. ^ Lloyd M. Nyhus: From Kocher to Allgöwer: The International Society of Surgery / La Société Internationale de Chirurgie . In: World Journal of Surgery . tape 18 , no. 6 , 1994, ISSN  0364-2313 , pp. 807-810 , doi : 10.1007 / BF00299070 .
6. ↑ Allgöwer (ISS / SIC) ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.