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Max singer

Max Sänger (born March 14, 1853 in Bayreuth ; † January 12, 1903 in Bubentsch / Prague ) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

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Max Sänger studied medicine from 1871 to 1876 at the Universities of Würzburg and Leipzig . In 1876 he was in Leipzig with a dissertation on "The mechanics of bronchoconstriction and Pneumorrhagieen with tuberculosis pulmonum" Dr. med. PhD . Until 1878, Sänger worked as an assistant at the pathological institute and at the medical outpatient clinic under Ernst L. Wagner (1829–1888). Then, until 1881, singer was assistant at the Leipzig University Women's Clinic under Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (1819–1892). Here he completed his habilitation in 1881 with the text "The Caesarean section for uterine fibroids together with the comparative methodology of the Caesarean section and Porro operation" for obstetrics and gynecology. In the same year he was appointed private lecturer and in 1890 associate professor for obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig.

In 1882, Sänger introduced a two-layer suture closure of the uterus during a caesarean section after Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer in Meckesheim carried out the first conservative classic caesarean section on September 25, 1881 with the assistance of midwife Maria Zeeb (1859–1927).

Singer founded a gynecological outpatient clinic in 1883 and opened a modern women's sanatorium in 1890. In 1894 he was a co-founder of the monthly magazine for obstetrics and gynecology , and a founding member of the German Society for Gynecology in 1895.

In 1899 Max Singer was appointed full professor and head of the obstetric and gynecological clinic at the Charles University in Prague . He ran the clinic until his death in 1903 at the age of 49.

Fonts (selection)

  • The mechanics of broncho- and pneumorrhages in tuberculosis pulmonum. Dissertation , University of Leipzig , 1876.
  • The caesarean section for uterine fibroids together with the comparative methodology of the Caesarean section and the Porro operation. Reviews, studies and suggestions for improving cesarean section. Habilitation thesis , University of Leipzig , 1881.
  • On the technique of the amputatio uteri myomatosi supravaginalis. (Intraperitoneal encapsulation, elastic permanent ligation of the uterine stump.) In: Centralblat für Gynäkologie. Volume 10, No. 44, October 30, 1886, pp. 718–723 ( lecture given in the gynecological section of the Natural Scientists' Assembly in Berlin ).
  • About rag trachelorraphy. Leipzig 1890.
  • Asepsis in gynecology and obstetrics. Leipzig 1893.
  • The clinical conditions of the ovarian embryos. Leipzig 1899.
  • Encyclopedia of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1900.

Awards

literature

  • Don Todman: Max Sänger (1853-1903): An Historical Note on Uterine Sutures in Caesarean Section. The Internet Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 10 (2008), online
  • Entry Saenger, Max In: Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, col. 1460–1464.
  • Erlend Hem, Per E. Børdahl: Max Singer - father of the modern caesarean section. Gynecol Obstet Invest 55 (2003), 127-129, doi : 10.1159 / 000071524 , PMID 12865589

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Remarks

  1. ↑ prophylactic hysterectomy in caesarean sections, proposed in 1809 by Gottfried Philipp Michaelis, published in 1876 by the Paduan obstetrician Edouardo Porro (1842–1902).
personal data
SURNAME Singer, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saenger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1903
Place of death Bubentsch , Prague