Otto Pankow

Otto Pankow (born February 25, 1876 in Feldberg near Fehrbellin , † January 12, 1934 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German gynecologist and university professor .

Life

Pankow came from a farming family in Brandenburg. He studied medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig. In 1900 he passed his state examination and went as an assistant to the private gynecological clinic of his teachers Carl Menge and Bernhard Krönig in Leipzig. 1903-04 he was an assistant at the University Hospital Jena, where he joined in 1904 at Krönig habilitated . In 1905/06 he was at the bacteriological institute in Cologne, at the Koch Institute in Berlin and at the pathological institute in Marburg with Ludwig Aschoff . He followed Krönig to Freiburg as a senior physician at the women's clinic. In 1910 he became associate professor in Freiburg and in 1912 full professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Academy for Practical Medicine in Düsseldorf and director of the women's clinic there.

During the First World War in 1915 he was medical officer and head of the 2nd field hospital of the 15th Army Corps, but soon returned to Düsseldorf. As head of the reserve hospital of the municipal hospitals, he again took over the gynecological clinic, which was temporarily manned. He declined calls to Erlangen (1920) and Breslau (1922), but in 1927 accepted the call to Freiburg as the successor to Opitz and his predecessor Krönig.

He looked at tuberculosis and was of the opinion that pulmonary tuberculosis may require an interruption of pregnancy, which met resistance. He has written articles in handbooks on genital tuberculosis in women. His suggestion of a caesarean section for placenta previa prevailed. He researched ectopic pregnancy and its causes, perityphlitis and its surgical treatment, the condition of women after hysterectomy , benign uterine bleeding (introduction of the term metropathia haemorraghica in cases without a cause of inflammation), artificial sterilization and puerperal fever . In the Handbook of Gynecology by Stoeckel and Veit from 1931 he wrote the sections on therapy of uterine carcinoma and chorionic epithelioma . He also worked on the manual of internal medicine (1st edition, volume 6).

In 1916 he married Lotte, daughter of General upper physician Otto Bunge Roth (* 1849). He died of lung cancer.

Fonts

• with Küpferle: The termination of pregnancy in the case of pulmonary and larynx tuberculosis , Thieme 1911
• with Rudolf von Jaschke : Textbook of Gynecology , 5th edition, Springer 1933
• with Bernhard Krönig: Textbook of Gynecology , Springer, 5th edition 1915

literature

• Obituary by Martius in Klinische Wochenschrift, February 17, 1934, p. 279
• Obituary by H. Franken, Gynäkologie, Volume 96, 1934, pp. 347-350
• Pankow, Otto. In: Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 1. De Gruyter Saur, Munich 2002, p. 455.