Norbert Henning

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Norbert Henning (born July 12, 1896 in Hundeshagen , Eichsfeld district , † December 4, 1985 in Erlangen ) was a German internist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Henning took part in the First World War as a war volunteer , where he was wounded by shrapnel in 1915 and 1917 . He then completed a degree in medicine at the universities of Leipzig , Göttingen and Freiburg . 1922 graduated Norbert Henning the state exam and Physikum in Freiburg and received the approbation as a doctor in Karlsruhe , a year later his doctorate he became Dr. med. at the University of Freiburg.

Norbert Henning held his first position in 1923 as an assistant in the internal department at the St. Vincentius Hospital in Karlsruhe. In the same year he moved to the Robert Koch Institute as a scientific assistant and as an assistant to the infection department of the state Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin . He held this employment until 1926, the year when he was able to prove the droplet infection with haemolytic streptococci in an endemic measles pneumonia. In 1927, Henning accepted the offer for an assistant position at the Leipzig University Medical Center . In 1929 he was appointed senior physician at the St. Jacob Hospital in Leipzig.

Also in 1929 habilitated himself as a lecturer in internal medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. From this time on, Henning researched and developed methods of laparoscopy to diagnose gastric diseases . From 1932 he also published on gastroscopy methods and devices that he had developed . The proof of the formation of gastric juice during sleep provided by Henning in 1932 together with Leo Norpoth in patients with an ulcer of the duodenum was the basis for the successful application of the therapeutic method of vagotomy .

In 1935, Norbert Henning - he was a member of the NSDAP and Sturmbann doctor of the SA during the Nazi era - was given the extraordinary professorship there , which he held until 1949. In addition, Henning worked between 1936 and 1937 as a senior physician in the internal department of the Fürth City Hospital.

In 1949 Henning took up an extraordinary professorship for internal medicine at the University of Würzburg . In 1953 he accepted a chair for internal medicine at the University of Erlangen , which he held until his retirement in 1966. During his time in Würzburg and Erlangen, he was also employed as director of the university clinics.

Henning - his special research interests were digestive diseases , blood diseases and infectious diseases - had been married to the assistant at the dermatological university clinic Leipzig Lydia born Menke since 1927. Norbert Henning was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and chaired the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases from 1953 to 1955 .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • On a case of atrophic acrodermatitis and scleroderma, dissertation . 1923.
  • The bacterial colonization of the healthy and diseased stomach, habilitation thesis . 1930.
  • Inflammation of the stomach . JA Barth, Leipzig, 1934.
  • Textbook of gastroscopy . JA Barth, Leipzig, 1935.
  • Practical results of new clinical research . Schattauer, Stuttgart 1962.
  • as publisher: Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin / Vienna 1958; 3rd edition, ibid. 1966, ISBN 3-541-01053-3 .
  • With Siegfried Witte: Atlas of gastroenterological cytodiagnostics . 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 1968.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek : Comments on the scientific oeuvre of the gastroenterologist Professor Dr. Norbert Henning. In: Würzburger medical history reports 20, 2001, p. 545 f., Cited: p. 545
  2. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek, 2001, p. 545
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dog hare
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1985
Place of death gain