Martin Wienbeck

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Martin Wienbeck (born December 27, 1936 in Breslau ; died April 27, 2005 in Kabul ) was a German gastroenterologist . He is considered to be groundbreaking for the development of neurogastroenterology in Germany. In his retirement he was involved in building medical infrastructure in Afghanistan during the war there .

Life

origin

Martin Wienbeck was born in Breslau in 1936 as the eldest of three sons of a German military doctor. After the death of his father, who was killed in a bomb attack in 1944, the family moved to Frankenberg .

Career

Wienbeck studied medicine in Marburg and Paris. He then worked as a medical assistant and resident in West Berlin , Leuven and Marburg, where he received his doctorate in 1962 . In 1963 he met his future wife, a medical student who fled to West Berlin that year, in East Berlin . After a two-year research stay at the University of Iowa , he completed his habilitation, already specialized in gastroenterology, in 1972 at the Philipps University of Marburg on electromyography in the digestive tract . From 1974 to 1987 he worked at the University Hospital Düsseldorf and was its deputy director for three years. From 1987 he was chief physician and adjunct professor of the LMU at the central clinic in Augsburg and left there in 2001 for reasons of age. In addition, Wienbeck was an extraordinary member of the drug commission of the German medical profession .

Engagement in Afghanistan

In 2001 Wienbeck established the Wienbeck Foundation for Medical Development with the aim of improving medical care in underserved regions of the world. He had already been to Haiti, Uganda, Kenya and Afghanistan and ultimately decided to improve medical care in war-ravaged Kabul. The Aliabad Hospital there was equipped with endoscopes and Wienbeck taught Afghan doctors how to use them. Among them were the first women in the Islamic country to learn the technique because Afghan women refused to be examined by male doctors.

Martin Wienbeck died in Kabul in 2005 from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident. He left his wife Elisabeth and two grown children.

Aftermath

Elisabeth Wienbeck continued the work of the foundation founded by her husband in Afghanistan. The German Society for Neurogastroenterology and Motility has been awarding the Martin Wienbeck Prize for research in the field of motility of the gastrointestinal tract since 2012 .

In an obituary, The Lancet divided Wienbeck's work into three phases: the leading role in research on the motility of the gastrointestinal tract and its neurophysiology , his leading clinical work and his development work in favor of endoscopic examination and treatment options in Afghanistan. His research contributed a lot to the understanding of diseases of the esophagus , such as reflux oesophagitis , hiatal hernia or the Schatzki ring . Like The Lancet , the Guardian wrote in its obituary that Wienbeck's ownbiography, influencedby World War II , mayhave contributedto his altruistic mission in Afghanistan.

Fonts (selection)

Martin Wienbeck published numerous articles and 263 articles in scientific compilations. From 1981 to 1986 he was co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie .

  • Attempts to influence the cation exchange on yeast and muscle cells . Diss., Marburg 1962.
  • with Hans-Günther Beger: Gastrointestinal motility: clinical investigation methods . Edition Medicine, Weinheim 1983, ISBN 3-527-15103-6 .
  • with Wilhelm Berges: Therapy of gastrointestinal motility disorders . Edition Medicine, Weinheim 1984, ISBN 3-527-15220-2 .
  • Current aspects of gastrointestinal motility . Univ.-Verl. Jena, Jena 1993, ISBN 3-86007-066-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Obituary at The Guardian on June 6, 2005. Retrieved October 28, 2012 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Drug Ordinance in Practice, Volume 32, Issue 3, July 2005, p. 96: The AkdÄ mourns Professor Martin Wienbeck. (PDF; 550 kB) Accessed October 30, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b April 16, 2012: First award of the Martin Wienbeck Prize. Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Obituary in The Lancet , Volume 365, Issue 9478, Page 2172, June 25, 2005 doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (05) 66765-7 , accessed on October 28, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c d Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2005 . tape III , 2005, ISSN  1616-8399 , p. 3852 .
  6. ^ A b Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on October 28, 2009: Medical support for Afghanistan: advanced training for Afghan doctors at the gastroenterology clinic. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 4, 2015 ; Retrieved October 28, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-duesseldorf.de
  7. ↑ Awards: Awards. In: Dtsch Arztebl 2012; 109 (20): A-1038 / B-896 / C-886. Retrieved October 28, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Wienbeck, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gastroenterologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2005
Place of death Kabul