Otto Roth (surgeon)

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Otto Roth

Otto Roth (born August 22, 1863 in Ilsenburg (Harz) , † November 26, 1944 in Lübeck ) was a German surgeon. He developed the world's first anesthetic machine.

Life

Otto Roth came as the eldest son of the later Princely Stolberg Chamber and Forestry Councilor Karl Wilhelm Ludwig (Louis) Roth and his wife Marianne nee. Kunkel to the world. Roth studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Friedrichs University Halle and the University of Leipzig . He finished his studies in Tübingen, where he was awarded a Dr. med. received his doctorate . He completed his surgical training at the Charité in Berlin. From 1897 to 1933 he headed the surgical department at Lübeck General Hospital. In 1911, 1921 and 1933 he headed the 9th, 22nd and 46th meetings of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons .

Together with Heinrich Dräger and his son Alexander Bernhard Dräger (1870–1928), he developed the world's first anesthetic machine for the Drägerwerk (Reich patent 154339). In 1902 he presented it to the public for the first time at the German Surgeon Congress in Berlin, before it became widely known as the Roth-Dräger mixed anesthesia machine in the following year .

Roth was buried under a tall obelisk in the Lübeck Burgtorfriedhof . He was a member of the Medical Association in Lübeck . From the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the University of Lübeck e. V. , the Professor Otto Roth Prize is awarded annually for outstanding dissertations at the University of Lübeck .

  • Roth's grave

  • Roth-Dräger mixed anesthesia machine (1902)

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons

literature

  • Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors. In: The car . Lübeck contributions to culture and society, 1960, pp. 94/95.
  • Werner Mohr: The surgeon Professor Dr. Otto Roth . Dräger, Lübeck 1991.
  • Rogan Schmidt-Rimpler: The development of Dräger anesthesia technology (1902–1918) in an international comparison , Lübeck 2008, p. 33.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: On a case of sarcoma associated with hemorrhagic diathesis.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Teichmann , Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009, pp. 57–59.
  3. ^ Patent specification, September 24, 1904
  4. ↑ On the history of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons, 125th conference, 12. – 14. June 1980, p. 24.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilsenburg (Harz)
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1944
Place of death Lübeck