Max Hofmeier

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Max Hofmeier

Max Friedrich Adolph Hofmeier (born January 28, 1854 in Zudar on Rügen , † April 3, 1927 in Unter-Grainau ) was a German gynecologist .

Life

Max Hofmeier was born the son of a royal superintendent in Zudar on Rügen . He received his first lessons in his father's house until he entered the lower secondary school of the Greifswald grammar school . In the fall of 1872 he obtained his school-leaving certificate and then began studying medicine at the university there. At the beginning of the second semester he moved to Würzburg , where he continued his studies with Albert von Kölliker , Johannes Wislicenus , Fick, Sachs and others. In 1874 Hofmeier passed his physics course and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau , where Alfred Hegar , Bäumler, Adolf Kussmaul and Vincenz Czerny - the latter at that time as a university professor - exerted a great influence on him. He finished his studies again in Greifswald, where Carl Hueter , Mosler, Rudolf Schirmer and especially Hugo Pernice were his most important teachers.

On the basis of a dissertation prepared by Hueter: "Experimental contributions to the teaching of circulatory disorders in warm-blooded animals", Hofmeier was awarded Dr. med. did his doctorate and then passed his medical state examination in Greifswald in the following winter semester.

Act

On April 1, 1877, Hofmeier began his work in the obstetric clinic in Greifswald. Shortly afterwards - on October 1st of the same year - he moved to Berlin as an assistant at the obstetric university clinic, which was then still in Dorotheenstrasse and was headed by Karl Schroeder . In this position Hofmeier also took part in the move of the clinic to the new building of the current university gynecological clinic and was entrusted by Schroeder with the trustful position of a secondary doctor and the management of the gynecological outpatient clinic. In this position, Hofmeier completed his habilitation in the winter semester of 1884 and, when Schroeder fell ill and died in 1887, he was provisionally commissioned by the royal ministry to manage the entire clinic. At the beginning of May 1887 - that was how long Hofmeier stayed in Berlin - he took over Kaltenbach's apprenticeship as a full professor teaching obstetrics and gynecology in Giessen. A short time later, Hofmeier moved to Würzburg in the same capacity, where he was given the honorable task of replacing Friedrich Wilhelm von Scanzoni , who had retired. He stayed in Würzburg from 1900 to 1923, where he was twice elected dean of the medical faculty and in 1900 rector of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Max Hofmeier's effect extended in two directions. In addition to his teaching activities (starting in 1882), it is the numerous scientific works that made the name of the researcher known. In 1904 Hofmeier, as director of the Würzburg University Women's Clinic, demonstrated and published cystoscopy using indigo carmine , thereby establishing the chromocystoscopy developed by F. Voelcker and Eugen Joseph in the gynecological-urological area in 1903 . In 1888 Hofmeier was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Hofmeier was the initiator of the founding of the Franconian Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1902. He headed the society as elected 1st Chairman since the first meeting on October 25, 1902 in Nuremberg with re-elections in 1908 and 1911. On January 28, 1912, he placed in the general assembly of the society also submitted the proposal to merge with the Munich Gynecological Society to form the Bavarian Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology , of which he was the first chairman. In the same year he was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of Merit by St. Michael .

Others

  • The "Hofmeierstrasse" has been entered in the Würzburg address books since 1925 (previously "Roentgenstrasse"). In an address book from 1925 it can be read: "Named after the gynecologist who was worthy of Würzburg, long-time director of the women's clinic, university professor, secret councilor Dr. Max Hofmeier. Hofmeier worked in Würzburg from 1888 - 1923."
  • Honorary member of the Middle Rhine Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (MGGG) in 1925.

Fonts (selection)

  • Prevention of puerperal fever in obstetric schools. Published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1897.
  • Gynecological Surgery Floor Plan. Publishing house Deuticke, Leipzig 1888.
  • The myomotomy. Enke publishing house, 1884.
  • Handbook of Women's Diseases. (At the same time as the 16th editionof Karl Schroeder's handbook on diseases of the female genital organs .) Verlag FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1921.
  • with A. Benckiser: Contributions to the anatomy of the pregnant and circulating uterus. Publishing house Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1887.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Kremling : Würzburger Contributions to Gynecological Urology. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 5-11, here: pp. 6 f.
  2. ^ Members. Retrieved March 14, 2016 .

Category Cross of Honor of the Order of Merit of St. Michael

personal data
SURNAME Hofmeier, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmeier, Max Friedrich Adolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Plus on Rügen
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1927
Place of death Unter-Grainau