Otto Körner

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Otto Körner

Otto Maximilian Ferdinand Körner (born May 18, 1858 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 9, 1935 in Rostock ) was a German doctor for ear, nose and throat medicine . In Rostock he was given the first ENT chair at a German university in 1899.

family

Otto Körner was born in 1858 as the son of the Privy Councilor and Regional Court Director Wilhelm Körner and his wife Elise. In 1887 he married Louise Ebert (1861–1937) from Kassel, sister of the German geologist and paleontologist Theodor Ebert . The couple had three daughters.

Life

After graduating from high school, Körner studied medicine from 1878 at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . With like-minded fellow students, he founded a scientific association that assumed the character of a corporation and was accepted into the Goslar Chargierten-Convent . In 1882 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He then worked as an assistant doctor in the university clinics in Strasbourg and Frankfurt am Main. In 1886 he established himself as a general practitioner in Frankfurt am Main. In 1894 he was appointed to the vacated Extraordinariat for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases in Rostock. Under his direction, the new building of the first German university clinic for ear, nose and larynx diseases was opened on October 25, 1899. In 1901, Körner was appointed the first German professor for ear, nose and larynx diseases. When many special fields arose in medicine in the mid-19th century, laryngology and otology developed for the head and neck area . For the most part they stood on their own. Körner pushed their association forward. His textbook, published in 1906, was one of the first, if not the first, to introduce the subject in its entirety. It became a bestseller . Körner was rector of the University of Rostock from 1913 to 1914 . He held the position of clinic director until his retirement (1929).

Even as a schoolboy, Körner had published a contribution to Homer's wildlife in the Natural History Archives . As an emeritus he continued his studies of antiquity . His last publication dealt with the sensations in the Iliad and the Odyssey .

Functions

  • Editor of the journal for ear and larynx medicine (1895–1935)
  • Member of the board of the German Otological Society, from 1900, chairman 1903
  • Organization of the annual meeting of the Low German ear, nose and larynx doctors in Rostock (1914)

Honors

ENT clinic "Otto Körner" at the Rostock University Medical Center
  • 1913 Secret Medical Council
  • Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1926)
  • 1929 honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock
  • Honorary member of the Otorhinolaryngological Societies in Berlin, Moscow and Budapest
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine
  • Honorary member of the Society of German Ear, Nose and Throat Doctors
  • Honorary member of the Rostock Medical Association
  • Corresponding member of the Laryngological-Rhinological Society in Vienna and the Oto-laryngological Society in Copenhagen
  • On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the ENT clinic of the Rostock University Medical Center , it was given the honorary name "Otto-Körner-Klinik" on October 23, 1989.
  • The North German Society for Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery awards the Otto Körner Prize annually.

Fonts

  • The Homeric animal world. A contribution to the history of zoology . (1880)
  • Otitic diseases of the brain, meninges and blood conductors. Frankfurt am Main 1894, 5th, completely revised. Edition Munich 1925.
  • Textbook of ear medicine and its border areas. Wiesbaden 1906, further editions under the title: Textbook of Ear, Nose and Larynx Diseases, 1909, 16th edition 1969.
  • Expert opinion on the necessity of an examination of ear medicine in the state medical examination. Wiesbaden 1896.
  • Memories of a German doctor and university professor 1858-1914. Munich, Wiesbaden 1920.
  • The sensations in Iliad and Odyssey . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1932.

literature

  • Jost Benedum :  Körner, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 388 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Burkhard Kramp , Steffen Dommerich: The establishment of the first German university ENT clinic in Rostock on October 25, 1899 by Otto Körner - first professorial office for the subject otology 1901, clinic director, Rector magnificus in the period from 1894-1929 , in: Burkhard Kramp (ed.): 100 years of the University ENT Clinic and Polyclinic Rostock . Roggentin (et al.) 1999, pp. 47-71.
  • Burkhard Kramp: Otto Körner as a university professor . Rostock Medical Contributions 10 (2001), pp. 13-22.
  • 100 years chair for ear and larynx medicine . Rostock 2001 (BGUR 24).
  • Antje Grüschow: Otto Körner's importance as a doctor, university professor and researcher, first German professor for ear and larynx diseases and builder of the first North German clinic in Rostock . Diss. Univ. Rostock 2007.
  • Burkhard Kramp, Antje Jerecinski: Otto Körner. Doctor, professor and researcher; First German professor for ear and larynx diseases and founder of the first ENT specialist clinic in Northern and Central Europe . Roggentin 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Rostock ENT Clinic. Retrieved July 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Contributions to the comparative anatomy and physiology of the larynx of mammals and humans .
  3. ↑ North German Society for Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery: Otto Körner Prize
personal data
SURNAME Körner, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körner, Otto Maximilian Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1935
Place of death Rostock