Nicolai Guleke

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Nicolai Guleke (born April 25, 1878 in Pernau , Livonia Gouvernement , † April 4, 1958 in Wiesbaden ) was a German-Baltic surgeon and university professor.

Life

Born the son of the German-Baltic engineer and architect Reinhold Guleke , Nicolai Guleke studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Kaiser Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . His life as a surgeon was shaped by his first teacher, Ernst von Bergmann . During the First World War , Guleke worked as a senior physician in a fortress hospital in Strasbourg . In 1918 he became the chair of surgery at the Philipps University of Marburg , but in 1919 he moved to the University of Jena , where he worked as director of the surgical university clinic. From 1926 to 1951 he lived with his family in his Jenenser house "Belle Epoque". During the Second World War , Guleke was chief physician in the reserve and consultant surgeon in the 1st Army (Wehrmacht) and hospitals in Thuringia . After finishing his professional activity in Jena at the age of 73 he moved to Wiesbaden. He died there in 1958 and was buried in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg .

Guleke was recognized as an outstanding surgeon in neurosurgery , hand surgery and visceral surgery . He wrote 13 books, including articles in the handbook of the entire therapy and 1945 the work War Surgery and War Surgeons through the ages . Since it was founded by Springer-Verlag, Guleke has worked on the advisory board of the magazine Der Chirurg . He also wrote many individual publications . A particular concern of Guleke was the training of the next generation of surgeons . In 1946 he suggested, through the dean of the medical faculty, that the Soviet military administration approve the re-establishment of a society for surgery in Thuringia. This was first achieved for Jena in 1947.

One of Guleke's students, B. Boshammer , wrote after the death of his teacher: “For Guleke, surgery meant life. He was obsessed with it. ”Another student, Gerhard Hartmann , added:“ But surgery was only there for him to help the patient in his need. ”

Honors

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Hartmann: In memoriam Nicolai Guleke . Ärzteblatt Thüringen 7 (1996), p. 350 f.
  • Hans Ulrich Schulz:  Guleke, Nicolai. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 304 ( digitized version ).
  • Udo Töpfer: Prof. Dr. med. Nicolai Guleke (1878–1958) and the development of the Jena University Surgical Clinic under his direction from 1919 to 1951. Medical dissertation, Jena 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ N. Guleke: War surgery and war surgeons through the ages. Lecture given on June 19, 1944 to medical students at the University of Jena. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1945
personal data
SURNAME Guleke, Nicolai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic surgeon, university professor in Jena
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Pernau , Livonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1958
Place of death Wiesbaden