Oscar Vulpius

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Oscar Vulpius

Karl Oscar Vulpius (also Oskar; born January 30, 1867 in Boxberg (Baden) , † July 28, 1936 in Bad Rappenau ) was a German orthopedic surgeon .

Life

Vulpius Clinic in Bad Rappenau

Oscar Vulpius attended high school in Heidelberg from 1875 to 1885 . After graduating from high school (grade “very good”) he did a voluntary year with the 110th Infantry Regiment in Heidelberg. On November 7, 1885, he enrolled in medicine at Heidelberg University . Here he joined the connection Leonensia at. Vulpius spent the winter semester 1888/89 in Berlin. In November 1890 he did his doctorate under Vincenz Czerny on the radical operation of hernias in the anterior abdominal wall. Until 1896 he was an assistant at Czerny in Heidelberg. In 1894 he received the Venia legendi for surgery; In 1896 he received a teaching position for orthopedics from the Baden Ministry of Culture. In July 1896 he opened his orthopedic polyclinic and private clinic in Heidelberg. In 1902 he was appointed associate professor. In June 1912 the Sanatorium Solbad Bad Rappenau , today's Vulpius Clinic , was opened. From 1914 to 1918 Vulpius was deployed on the Western and Eastern Fronts as a senior staff doctor. On July 28, 1936, he had a fatal accident in a car accident near Bad Rappenau.

Services

Vulpius wrote about 260 papers, essays, monographs and books. His main work is the orthopedic operation theory that he wrote with his student Adolf Stoffel . It is the first ever surgical guide and was published in three editions. Matthias Jung and Arnim Braun point out that Vulpius' contribution to the development of orthopedics “has so far been of no importance in the literature”. The orthopedic-surgical poli and private clinic in Heidelberg, opened in 1896, is one of the first accident facilities in Germany after the establishment of the statutory accident insurance in 1884. Vulpius recognized the synergy of orthopedics and trauma surgery early on . By founding the Vulpiusklinik as a GmbH in 1912 , with his two clinics in Heidelberg and Bad Rappenau, he was able to provide both acute treatment and rehabilitation in the sense of follow-up treatment .

Fonts (selection)

  • Oscar Vulpius: The tendon transplantation and its utilization in the treatment of paralysis. Veit, Leipzig 1902.
  • Oskar Vulpius, Adolf Stoffel : Orthopedic operation theory. Enke, Stuttgart 1913.

literature

  • Arnim Braun (ed.): Oscar Vulpius - life and work. A pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery in Heidelberg. Brigitte Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-924973-81-4 .
  • Matthias Florian Jung: Oscar Vulpius, his life's work and its importance for orthopedics then and now. Diss. Med. Med. Fac. Univ. Heidelberg 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnim Braun (ed.): Oscar Vulpius - life and work. A pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery in Heidelberg . Brigitte Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1997, p. 29 .
  2. ^ Arnim Braun (ed.): Oscar Vulpius - life and work. A pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery in Heidelberg . Brigitte Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1997, p. 30 .
  3. ↑ Oscar Vulpius: The radical operation of the hernias in the anterior abdominal wall . Laupp, 1890.
  4. ^ Arnim Braun (ed.): Oscar Vulpius - life and work. A pioneer in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery in Heidelberg . Brigitte Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1997, p. 23 .
personal data
SURNAME Vulpius, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vulpius, Karl Oscar (full name); Vulpius, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Boxberg (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1936
Place of death Bad Rappenau