Norbert Ortner

Norbert Ortner as full professor at the University of Innsbruck

Norbert Ortner (born August 10, 1865 in Linz , † March 1, 1935 in Salzburg ; officially Norbert Ritter Ortner von Rodenstätt from 1916 to 1919 ) was an Austrian internist , clinic director and councilor, after whom two clinical pictures are named.

Ortner was a student and successor to Edmund von Neusser (1852–1912) at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna. Later he was full professor at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna .

In 1916 he was involved in the preservation of the body of Emperor Franz Joseph I and appears in the medical protocol about it, which is now one of the exhibits in the Pathological-Anatomical Museum in Vienna . It says:

“Protocol recorded on November 23, 1916 about the conservation of the corpse of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I by the produced in the presence of the two signed doctors. The two large carotid arteries are exposed, cannulas are tied into them and then injected with formalin in a concentrated state into the head on the one hand and into the trunk on the other hand in an amount of 5 liters. Finally the neck wounds are sewn up. "

The protocol is signed by the coroner and pathologist Alexander Kolisko , the personal physician of Emperor Joseph Ritter von Kerzl and the then head of the II Medical University Clinic Norbert Ortner.

Knight's coat of arms Ortner von Rodenstätt, 1916

With a handwritten letter from Emperor Karl I on December 8, 1916, Norbert Ortner was raised to the hereditary Austrian knighthood with the predicate "von Rodenstätt". After the end of the monarchy in Austria-Hungary , the parliament of German Austria decided on April 3, 1919 to abolish the nobility. As a result of this nobility annulment law , Ortner also lost the right to use his title.

"Ortner syndrome I" describes left vocal cord paralysis caused by compression of the recurrent laryngeal nerve due to cardiovascular changes such as enlargement of the left atrium. “Ortner Syndrome II” is a synonym for the more common term angina abdominalis .

After his retirement as director of the 2nd Medical Clinic in Vienna, he participated as an employee in the lexicon of the entire therapy .

literature

Marlene Jantsch : Ortner von Rodenstätt Norbert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 256.

Web links

Literature by and about Norbert Ortner in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Supplementary entries in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b If the dead should live longer . ( Memento from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) springermedizin.at, March 28, 2007; Retrieved September 7, 2012
↑ Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916–1921) . Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 , p. 50.
↑ Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).

personal data
SURNAME	Ortner, Norbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ortner, Norbert von; Ortner von Rodenstätt, Norbert; Ortner-Rodenstätt, Norbert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian internist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1935
Place of death	Salzburg

[springermedizin-1] If the dead should live longer . ( Memento from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) springermedizin.at, March 28, 2007; Retrieved September 7, 2012

[2] Arno Kerschbaumer, Nobilitations under the reign of Emperor Karl I / IV. Károly király (1916–1921) . Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504153-1-5 , p. 50.

[3] Walter Marle (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire therapy with diagnostic information. 2 volumes, 4th revised edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1935 ( list of employees ).