Otto Kleinschmidt (doctor)

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Otto Kleinschmidt

Otto Kleinschmidt (born July 31, 1880 in Darmstadt ; † June 5, 1948 ) was a German surgeon whose name is linked to the world's first clinically described mammography . He was with Anita Kleinschmidt, geb. Springer, married.

He studied medicine in Berlin, Freiburg, Munich and Heidelberg. In 1903 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Munich . In 1907 he was at the University of Leipzig Dr. med. PhD. In 1915 he completed his habilitation. He participated in the First World War as a medical officer. In 1920 he was appointed extraordinary professor of surgery. In 1926 he moved to the Wiesbaden Municipal Hospital. In 1927 his description of the clinical use of a mammography on a patient appeared in the textbook The Clinic of Malignant Tumors by Paul Zweifel and Erwin Payr .

Publications (selection)

  • The urinary stones. Their physiography and pathogenesis. Berlin 1911.
  • Surgical operation theory. A textbook for students and doctors. Berlin 1927.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 115 , 1229