Otto Küstner

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Otto Küstner

Otto Ernst Küstner (born August 26, 1849 in Trossin , Torgau district , Province of Saxony ; † May 12, 1931 ibid) was a German gynecologist and university professor.

Life

Küstner was the son of the manor owner Otto Wilhelm Küstner (1818–1890) and the daughter of a manufacturer, Anna born. Steinmetz from Eilenburg (1830–1870). Max Küstner is a six years younger brother.

Initially taught by private tutors in Trossin, Küstner attended grammar school in Torgau from 1860 onwards . From 1868 he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig , where he was active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . For the winter semester of 1869/70 he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . At the Franco-German War took Küstner as a one-year volunteer in the Guards Fusilier Regiment part. He then finished his studies at the Friedrichs University in Halle . There he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He completed his habilitation in obstetrics and gynecology in 1877 . In the last year Küstner went to the Jena women's clinic; In 1879 he was appointed full professor at the University of Jena . From 1888 he worked at the women's clinic and as a full professor at the University of Dorpat (Russia). From 1892 he was the successor of Heinrich Fritsch , who held a chair at the Royal University of Breslau . After the outbreak of World War I he was elected rector for the academic year 1914/15 . During the war he had to take over the post of chief physician of the fortress hospital "Royal Clinics Breslau". In 1923 Küstner retired and Ludwig Fraenkel was appointed his successor. As a retiree, he retired to his manor in Trossin, which he inherited in 1890.

Küstner was married to Harriet Booth († 1918), the daughter of a manor from Nütschau , Stormarn, since 1890 . The marriage resulted in four sons.

Küstner has rendered outstanding services to gynecological pathology . Some surgical procedures were named after him. He wrote over 600 articles (for example in the Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie ), monographs and books on obstetrics , caesarean sections and operative cancer treatment.

Fonts (selection)

  • The forensic significance of the hematoma of the sternocleidomastoid in the newborn child. In: Centralblatt für Gynäkologie. Volume 10, No. 9, February 27, 1886, pp. 129-136, and (addendum in) No. 25, June 19, 1886, pp. 384 f .; see. on this Carl Liman : correction. Ibid. No. 22, May 29, 1886, pp. 337 f.
  • The abdominal caesarean section. Wiesbaden 1915.
  • Short textbook of gynecology. 9th edition. Jena 1922.
  • Pathology of pregnancy. In: K. Baisel (among others): Handbook of obstetrics. Vol. 2, Munich (among others) 1924. (?)

Honors

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Otto Küstner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 149/502
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Two cases of osteoclasia due to irreducible dislocation of the hip .
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Küstner, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Küstner, Otto Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Trossin , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1931
Place of death Trossin