Maximilian Nitze
Maximilian "Max" Nitze (born September 18, 1848 in Berlin ; † February 22, 1906 there ) was a German urologist and inventor of the electrically illuminated cystoscope .
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Maximilian Nitze attended grammar school in Wernigerode , which he left in 1869 with a high school diploma to study medicine at the universities of Heidelberg , Würzburg and Leipzig . In 1874 he received his doctorate and from 1876 to 1878 - at times together with Felix Martin Oberländer - worked as an assistant at the city hospital in Dresden . There he worked a. a. also with experiments on the possibility of lighting internal hollow organs. However, in Dresden he was unable to find the appropriate technical design for his tests, so he went to an instrument manufacturer in Vienna who provided him with technical support in his experiments.
On May 9, 1879, Max Nitze first demonstrated in public the urethro- and cystoscope he had invented, first tested on a corpse in October 1877 and patented the following December. He succeeded in implementing and further developing the method he had developed, in which the light source is located inside the organ to be viewed.
In 1889 he presented his habilitation thesis on urology in Berlin , and in 1900 he became an associate professor. His publications on the therapy of bladder and kidney diseases showed new ways and served to further develop urology.
The German Society for Urology awards the Maximilian Nitze Prize for urological research, endowed with 15,000 euros (as of 2013) .
Works (selection)
- Textbook of Kystoscopy. Wiesbaden 1889 (2nd edition 1907).
- Cystophotographic Atlas. Wiesbaden 1894.
- A new observation and examination method for the urethra, urinary bladder and rectum. In: Wiener Medical Wochenschrift. 1879 (29), 24.
literature
- Heinz Goerke: Nitze, Maximilian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 293 ( digitized version ).
- Felix Martin Oberländer : Obituary in: Centralblatt for the diseases of the urinary and sexual organs. XVII (1906), p. 121.
- Michael Zykan: Nitze, Maximilian. 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. 1054.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ F. Schultze-Seemann: 100 years of kystoscopy. In memory of Max Nitze. In: F. Arnholdt (Ed.): Negotiation report of the German Society for Urology. 29th conference from September 21 to 24, 1977 in Stuttgart. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1978, pp. XX – XVII; here: p. XX ( Google Books preview ).
- ↑ Volker Klimpel: Dresden Doctors. Historical-biographical lexicon. Dresden: Hellerau-Verlag 1998, sv
- ↑ Horst Kremling : The cystoscopy - historical considerations. In: Würzburg medical history reports. 11, 1993, pp. 5-8; here: p. 6.
- ↑ Horst Kremling: The development of endovesical color photography. In: Würzburg medical history reports. 2, 1984, pp. 5-7; here: p. 5.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nitze, Maximilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nitze, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German urologist and inventor of the cystoscope |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1906 |
| Place of death | Berlin |