Otto Braun-Falco

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Otto Braun-Falco (1986)

Otto Braun-Falco (born April 25, 1922 in Saarbrücken ; † April 9, 2018 in Munich ) was a German doctor , dermatologist and university professor . In the 1970s and 1980s he was the leading dermatologist in Germany and also of international importance.

Life

After graduating from high school in Kassel in 1940, Braun-Falco initially studied medicine in Münster until 1943 and, after an interruption due to military service and imprisonment, from 1946 to the state examination in 1948 with a doctorate in 1949 in Mainz . In the winter semester of 1949/50 he became a member of the Catholic student association VKDSt Hasso-Rhenania Mainz in the CV .

From 1951 he was a private lecturer at the University of Mainz and, after his habilitation in 1954, he was an adjunct professor of dermatology and venereology from 1960 . From 1961 he held the chair for dermatology and venereology at the Philipps University of Marburg .

In 1961, Otto Braun-Falco older along with his thirty years teacher brought Egon Keining with Dermatology and Venereology a textbook out that developed the standard work. The book was also published in English in 1991.

With the 6th edition in 2012, Springer-Verlag changed the title to Braun-Falco's Dermatologie und Venerologie , following the title of Braun-Falco's dermatology from the 3rd edition of the English translation published in 2009.

In 1966 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . After Alfred Marchionini's death in 1967, he took over the management of the Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Munich , which is now the Thalkirchner Strasse Clinic and, until his retirement in 1990, also the chair of dermatology at the medical faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) .

The focus of his scientific work was dermatological metabolic mechanisms, immunology and skin diseases, malignant lymphomas and melanomas , but also the diagnosis and research of diseases using electron microscopy of the skin as well as hair diseases, leg problems and andrology and allergic reactions to environmental influences. In the field of venereology, he diagnosed the first AIDS cases in Bavaria and was the founder of an AIDS foundation. With the support of the Bavarian state government , he also set up the first psychosocial AIDS advice center at the clinic. His textbook Dermatology and Venereology is regarded as the standard work in dermatology.

From 1977 to 1982 he was President of the International Committee of Dermatology (ICD) and, during the same period, President of the International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS). From 1982 to 1985 he was President of the German Dermatological Society .

In 1968 he took over the publication of the magazine Der Hautarzt from Alfred Marchionini , from 1985 his student Detlef Petzold took over the editing.

From 1998 on he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and was secretary for four years until he gave up this position. Braun-Falco's successor to the chair at the LMU in Munich was Gerd Plewig from 1991 , who, alongside Braun-Falco, Helmut H. Wolff , Michael Landthaler and his American colleague Walter HC Burgdorf, is co-author of the new edition of the dermatological standard work, on which Braun- Falco's wife worked in the background, who later also studied medicine after studying German and newspaper studies in Munich.

His son Markus Braun-Falco is also a professor of dermatology with a practice in Munich and co-author of the textbook Braun-Falco's Dermatology and Venerology .

Awards and honors

Otto Braun-Falco had four honorary doctorates and numerous honorary memberships in almost all dermatological societies around the world. He was a bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit , the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art , the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , the Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit and many other awards. Particularly noteworthy is the inscription of the gold medal of the Polish Society of Dermatologists with the words:

"To the leading dermatologist in Europe, Professor Otto Braun-Falco, with gratitude and admiration from Polish friends."

On the occasion of the World Congress of Dermatologists in Tokyo , chaired by him in 1982 as President of the International League, he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun with golden rays on the neck band, which is considered one of the highest national awards in Japan. In 1997 he received the Cothenius Medal .

Publications

  • (with Egon Keining ): Dermatology and Venereology. A textbook for students and doctors , Munich, JF Lehmanns 1961, 2nd edition 1969
    • After its publication, the book was regarded as the standard work of German dermatology. From 1984 in Springer Verlag in 3rd edition by Otto Braun-Falco with Gerd Plewig and Helmut H. Wolff as dermatology and venereology . English translation of Dermatology 1991 with Richard K. Winkelmann .
    • 7th edition, Springer 2018: Braun-Falco's Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology , by Gerd Plewig, Thomas Ruzicka, Roland Kaufmann, Michael Hertl.

literature

  • Prof. Otto Braun-Falco on the occasion of his 90th birthday , Springer-Medizin-Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, Supplement to The Dermatologist , Volume 63.
  • Birger Konz (editor and editor): Catalog raisonné of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Otto Braun-Falco , Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2002, Series: Advances in Dermatology, ISBN 3-7985-1352-X .

Web links

in conversation with Dr. Hans von Wimpffen in the Alpha-Forum broadcast on October 28, 1998 by Bayerischer Rundfunk

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  1. ↑ a b c Obituaries , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 14, 2018 (p. 30)
  2. ↑ Interview , Prof. Dr. Otto Braun-Falco dermatologist in conversation with Dr. Hans von Wimpffen in the Alpha-Forum broadcast on October 28, 1998 by Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  3. ↑ Braun-Falco's Dermatology and Venerology , entry in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Member entry of Otto Braun-Falco (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Hospital of the University of Munich: The first hospital building in Germany . Press release in: Science Information Service , November 11, 2004.
  6. ^ Hospital of the University of Munich: Dermatologist of world renown - Professor Otto Braun-Falco celebrates his 80th birthday . Press release in: Science Information Service April 25, 2002.
  7. ↑ Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Prof. Dr. Otto Braun-Falco , full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  8. ↑ Former Presidents of the German Dermatological Society , accessed on April 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dermatology Center , homepage of the practice for dermatology of Prof. Markus Braun-Falco.
  10. ↑ Götze, Springer-Verlag, Volume 2, 1994, p. 306
personal data
SURNAME Braun-Falco, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2018
Place of death Munich