Max Runge

Tomb of the Runge family in the Göttingen city cemetery

Heinrich Max Runge (born September 21, 1849 in Stettin , † July 27, 1909 in Göttingen ) was a German gynecologist and university professor.

Life

Runge studied in Jena, Bonn, Leipzig, Strasbourg and Vienna. In Strasbourg he was assistant to Ernst von Leyden and Adolf Gusserow , then at the Charité in Berlin assistant to Gusserow. He received his doctorate in 1875 and completed his habilitation in 1879.

In 1883 he became professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Dorpat .

In 1887 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

From 1888 to 1909 he was director of the clinic for gynecology and obstetrics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . He was the successor of Jakob Heinrich Hermann Schwartz and researched the amniotic fluid , the effects of fever on the expectant mother and the unborn child and possible connections between infections and fetal death.

The Prussian Midwifery Textbook and its publications on obstetrics and gynecology achieved large editions. The opening of the new Göttingen women's clinic in 1896 is one of his achievements.

Philipp Jung was his successor in 1910.

Fonts

Prussian midwifery textbook
Obstetrics textbook. Springer, 1st edition 1891 ( edited by Rudolf von Jaschke and Otto Pankow from the 9th edition )

literature

Julius Pagel : Runge, Heinrich Max . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 1451 .
Eduard Caspar Jacob von Siebold : Attempting a History of Obstetrics , Vol. 3, Part 2, Verlag von Franz Pietzcker, 1904
Richard von Volkmann (ed.): Collection of clinical lectures. Gynecology. New series , 1915
Volker Zimmermann: Runge, Heinrich Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 264 ( digitized version ).

Web links

History of the clinic

Individual evidence

↑ Member entry of Max Runge at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Runge, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Runge, Heinrich Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	July 27, 1909
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] Member entry of Max Runge at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.