Otto Seifert (doctor)

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Otto Seifert (* 1853 in Bimbach ; † 1933 ) was a German internist, dermatologist, ear, nose and throat specialist and professor at the University of Würzburg .

Life

During his studies in Erlangen, Seifert became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1877 . He received his doctorate and habilitation in internal medicine in Würzburg in 1883. In 1887 he became a full professor in Würzburg and in 1888 head of the department for skin and venereal diseases. After the death of Franz von Rinecker (1811-1883) it was downgraded and placed under the Medical Clinic and was not an independent department until 1907. Seifert lectured on dermatology, although that wasn't his main field. His successor in dermatology was Karl Zieler in the summer semester of 1909 (1874–1945), under whom the professorship for skin and venereal diseases was established in 1920.

In 1880 he gave courses in laryngoscopy for the first time in Würzburg, after Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt used the laryngoscope for examinations there from 1858. In 1919 he retired.

With his friend Friedrich von Müller , who like Seifert was Gerhardt's assistant at the Würzburg Juliusspital , he wrote the paperback of medical-clinical diagnostics at Gerhardt's instigation , first published in 1886 and still a standard work in the second half of the 20th century.

He was the father of the surgeon Ernst Seifert (1938 to 1942 rector of the University of Würzburg).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Friedrich Müller: Pocket book of medical-clinical diagnostics. JF Bergmann , Munich 1886; 50th edition 1941; from 1942 (55th edition) to 1966 (69th edition) ed. by Hans Kress von Kressenstein . Published by JF Bergmann, Munich 1966.
  • The side effects of modern medicines. 1915.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 190.
  2. ↑ Max Buchner (Ed.): From the past of the University of Würzburg. Springer, 1932, p. 707.
  3. ↑ Albrecht Scholz: History of dermatology in Germany. Springer, 1999, p. 42.
  4. ↑ Martin Sperling: The development of the medical subjects at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. In: Peter Baumgart (Ed.): Four hundred years of the University of Würzburg. A commemorative publication. Degener & Co. (Gerhard Gessner), Neustadt an der Aisch 1982 (= sources and contributions to the history of the University of Würzburg. Volume 6), ISBN 3-7686-9062-8 , pp. 811–826, here: pp. 821 f .
  5. ↑ Helmut Röckl: Dermatology in Würzburg. In: Four Hundred Years of the University of Würzburg. 1982, pp. 891-895, here: pp. 892 f.
  6. ^ History of ENT at the University Clinic Würzburg
  7. ↑ See for example Hans Freiherr von Kress (Ed.): Müller-Seifert. Pocket book of medical-clinical diagnostics. 69th, revised edition. JF Bergmann, Munich 1966, here in particular p. IV f.
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, dermatologist, ear, nose and throat specialist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Bimbach
DATE OF DEATH 1933