Oskar Witzel

Oskar Witzel (1907)

Düsseldorfer Lazarett - War hospital in the university building of Liège, donated by Mrs. Geh. Rat Witzel, b. Mannesmann, Mrs. Erna Wuppermann, b. Witzel, Mrs. August Haniel (1914)

Oskar Friedrich Witzel (born August 29, 1856 in Langensalza , † April 19, 1925 in Bonn ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

After completing his school days at the Royal High School at Burgplatz in Essen , Witzel began to study medicine at the Friedrichs University in Halle and the Royal University of Greifswald . In Greifswald, he became in 1876 Corp loop carrier of Guestfalia . He could study in 1879 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin with the promotion of Dr. med. to lock. After working as an assistant for his doctoral supervisor in Berlin for a few semesters , he moved to the clinics in Göttingen and Rostock . During this time, his work laid the foundations for his habilitation , which was completed in 1882 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1890 she appointed him as associate professor for surgery and entrusted him with the management of the surgical polyclinic . Witzel held this post until 1904, when he was elected chief physician at the Bonn Hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder . During these years Witzel developed the Witzel fistula named after him , an artificial feeding channel through the abdominal wall. As early as 1902 he propagated drip anesthesia with diethyl ether . In 1906 he changed as director to the newly established general municipal hospitals in Düsseldorf (later the Düsseldorf University Hospital ). He took on a teaching position at the Rhenish Society for Scientific Research. Witzel died in Bonn in 1925 at the age of 68. His brothers Julius, Adolph, Anton and Karl Witzel were (partly known) dentists. Witzelstrasse , on which the Düsseldorf University Hospital is located, was named after Oskar Witzel .

See also

• North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 94/184
2. ↑ Dissertation: On the nervous character of eczema and the treatment of it with electricity and ergotine
3. ↑ At the same time he worked in an accident clinic in Bonn, cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890-1904) , Volume 2, The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2009, pp. 116–118, 178–182.
4. ↑ Hans H. Lauer: On the history of the clinic for dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine at the University of Marburg ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Marburg.