Otto halls

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Otto Hallen, May 1979

Otto Hallen (born August 11, 1921 in Düsseldorf ; † February 3, 2006 in Mannheim ) was a German neurologist and director of the Mannheim University Neurological Clinic at Heidelberg University.

Life

After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Düsseldorf, Otto Hallen studied human medicine in Marburg, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Freiburg. During the Second World War , he served as a medical student in the medical corps of the Navy . From 1945 to 1948 Hallen was an assistant doctor at the Surgical University Clinic in Heidelberg under Karl Heinrich Bauer . In 1948 he moved to the neurological department of the Ludolf Krehl Clinic in Heidelberg (headed by Paul Vogel ). Otto Hallen received his psychiatric training in 1955/1956 under Manfred Bleuler at the Burghölzli Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich. After his return to neurology in Heidelberg, he became senior physician in 1962.

Hallen completed his habilitation in 1959 with the thesis Die Dystrophia muscularis progressiva and in 1968 received the call to the new chair for neurology at the Mannheim Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, which was set up in the Mannheim City Hospitals as part of the establishment of the Second Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. As director (1968–1989) he expanded the initially small neurological department. From 1974 to 1987 he was also the Medical Director of the University Hospital Mannheim . From 1972 to 1974 Hallen was dean of the then "Faculty of Clinical Medicine Mannheim".

In 1989 Hallen retired at the age of 68.

Hallen was an enthusiastic didactician who was not only able to arouse interest in his subject among his students, but also set an impetus for adult education in Mannheim. The Mannheim University Week, which still exists today as the “Medical University Week”, was founded on his initiative.

As part of his scientific focus, clinical neurology, Hallen dealt primarily with muscular dystrophies and epilepsies , in particular psychomotor seizures and their typology. In 1973 Hallen published a textbook for clinical neurology, which he wanted to see understood above all as "a propaedeutic and as an instruction for neurological examination".

Hallen was co-editor of several scientific journals, including the specialist journal "Der Nervenarzt", the publication organ of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology and the German Society for Neurology , from 1971 to 1987.

In 1970 he was one of the founding members of the German Society for Neuroradiology (DGNR), since 1979 he was on the board of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology), from 1981 to 1983 its 1st chairman

Works (selection)

  • A case of congenital small intestinal atresia. Heidelberg, Med. F., Diss. Feb 15, 1947.
  • About Jackson seizures. In: German journal for neurology. 167: 143-163 (1952).
  • The oral petit mal. Description and analysis of the epileptic equivalents called uncinate-fit (Jackson) and psychomotor-fit (Lennox). In: German journal for neurology. 171, pp. 236-260 (1954).
  • About skull changes in myotonic dystrophy. In: German journal for neurology. 172, pp. 467-481 (1955).
  • The psychiatry of oral petit mal epilepsy. In: Psychiat Neurol. (Basel) 134 (1957), pp. 43-65, doi: 10.1159 / 000134262
  • The clinic, diagnosis and differential diagnosis of minor epileptic seizures. In: German journal for neurology. 176, pp. 321-330 (1957).
  • The dystrophia muscularis progressiva. Habilitation thesis. Heidelberg 1959.
  • Via a defecation phantom after a rectal amputation. In: German journal for neurology. 179: 438-443 (1959).
  • To differentiate psychomotor seizures into clinical forms. In: German journal for neurology. 183: 199-217 (1962).
  • Eye muscle paralysis from a neurological point of view. In: German journal for neurology. 187 (1965), pp. 455-471.
  • About the dystrophia ossea and other skeletal changes in dystrophia muscularis progressiva. Reports 8th Int. Congress of Neurology, Vienna 1965.
  • The distribution scheme of the scapulo-humeral forms of chronic progressive myatrophic diseases. In: German journal for neurology. 188, pp. 1-11 (1966).
  • Retrahens via the dystrophia muscularis progressiva. In: Erich Kuhn (Ed.): Progressive muscular dystrophy - myotonia - myasthenia. Berlin / Heidelberg 1966, ISBN 3-642-92921-4 , pp. 86-95.
  • with T. Brusis and H. Pfisterer: Die Myatrophia spinalis postpoliomyelitica chronica. In: German journal for neurology. 195 (1969), pp. 333-343.
  • with U. Bleyl: About the manifestation of a myasthenia gravis pseudoparalytica after thymectomy. In: Journal of Neurology. 198, pp. 280-290 (1970).
  • with B. Neundörfer and M. von Rad: Neurological diseases in chronic alcoholism. In: The neurologist. 42, pp. 57-65 (1971).
  • with P. Marx and B. Neundörfer: Clinical Neurology. Berlin / Heidelberg 1973, ISBN 3-540-06210-6 .
  • The differential diagnostic distinction between epileptic and non-epileptic seizure patterns. In: MedWelt. 26: 366-370 (1975).
  • with JG Meyer-Wahl and J. Braun (Eds.): Epilepsie 82: Spät- und Residual-Epilepsien. Side effects of anticonvulsants: Mannheim 1982. Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-88756-204-6 .
  • with JG Meyer-Wahl and J. Braun (eds.): Epilepsie 83. Genetics and diagnostics of epilepsies: Mannheim 1983. Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-88756-205-4 .

Honors

  • 1968: Hereditary Medal of the German Society for Neurology
  • 1988: On May 15, 1988, the Mannheim Evening Academy / VHS awarded him the Golden Badge of Honor for his “services to adult education”.

literature

  • B. Neundörfer: Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. Otto halls. In: The neurologist. 77 (2006), pp. 1249-1250. doi : 10.1007 / s00115-006-2147-2
  • Who is who . The German Who's Who. Lübeck 2006/2007.
  • Axel W. Bauer : From the emergency house to the Mannheim University Hospital. Ubstadt-Weiher 2002, ISBN 3-89735-196-X .
  • The Faculty for Clinical Medicine Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg - Clinic of the City of Mannheim. In: 600 years of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg: 1386–1986. History, research and teaching. ed. from the rector d. Univ. Heidelberg, Munich 1986, p. 124f.
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1933–1986. Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-88834-5 , pp. 251-252.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current Medical University Week
  2. ↑ Max Armin Georgi: Otto Hallen for his 65th birthday. In: Rhein-Neckar-Ztg. No. 182 of August 11, 1986, p. 7.
  3. ^ Typology published in May 1961 at the annual meeting of the German section of the international league against epilepsy. Published in German Journal for Neurology. 183, pp. 199-217 (1962)
  4. ↑ Communication in Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 31 (1982) 2, p. 83.
  5. ↑ Online Chronicle of the Mannheim City Archives ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / chronikstar.mannheim.de
personal data
SURNAME Hallen, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2006
Place of death Mannheim