Oskar Römer

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Oskar Römer (born January 12, 1866 in Krotoschin , † January 6, 1952 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German dentist.

Life

The son of a guard studied theology, philosophy and medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin from 1884 . He moved to the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and was there in 1889 for Dr. med. PhD. In Freiburg im Breisgau he found a job as an assistant at the anatomical institute. He later set up as a practical country doctor in the Black Forest. After he had pursued further studies in dentistry in 1898, he completed his habilitation in 1899 at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg for this subject. In 1906 the private lecturer became an associate professor there .

In the same year, Römer went to the University of Leipzig in the same position , where he was director of the Dental Institute and in 1920 he became professor for the pathology of dental diseases in Leipzig . He participated in organizational tasks at the university and was dean of the medical faculty in 1925/26 . For the academic year 1928/29 he became rector . From 1933, the dental histologist and pathologist was a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , was awarded an honorary doctorate in dentistry in Leipzig in 1920 , and since 1929 he has been co-editor of the new specialist journal Paradentium and laid the founding impetus for today's German Society for Periodontology (DGP).

In 1906, Römer was made aware of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical teaching by his Swiss colleague Alfred Gysi . At least since a personal meeting with Steiner in 1910, Römer was strongly influenced by anthroposophy. Testimony of this gives u. a. his work on dental caries with reference to the results of spiritual research by Dr. Rudolf Steiner's (1921). After he retired in 1934 , he withdrew into private life. He died at the age of 86 in his country house in Berchtesgaden as a man with an international reputation in dentistry.

Works

  • Atlas of pathological-anatomical changes in the tooth pulp. (5th vol. 1909)
  • About dental caries in relation to the results of spiritual research Dr. Rudolf Steiner's. The Coming Day AG Verlag, Stuttgart, 1921
  • Life memories. In: Zahnärztliche Mitteilungen, vol. 41 (1951), p. 127ff

See also

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1935, Col. 1130.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus: German biographical encyclopedia 8 (DBE2), Saur, Munich, 2007, p. 481 ISBN 3598250304 , ISBN 978-3598250309
  • Christa Pörschmann: Oskar Römer - a pioneer in dentistry. Dentist Diss. Univ. Leipzig 1954. (See also: Karl Marx University Leipzig, 1409-1959: Contributions to the history of the university. Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig, 1959, p. 212.)
  • Hans Dieter Schwertfeger: Rational periodontal therapy. Hippocrates; Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 3131359617 , ISBN 978-3131359612 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the comparative anatomy of the vertebrate animal based on the findings on Protopterus annectens .
  2. ↑ thesis: Zahnhistologische study .
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Romans, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dentist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Krotoschin
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1952
Place of death Berchtesgaden