Otto Sprengel

Otto Sprengel (born December 27, 1852 in Waren (Müritz) , † January 8, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German surgeon. The Sprengel deformity is named after him (1891).

Otto Sprengel as a Tübingen Prussian

Life

Sprengel attended the municipal high school in Waren . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . He was active in the Corps Borussia Tübingen from the summer semester 1872 to the winter semester 1873/74 and distinguished himself as a consenior . As an inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in the winter semester of 1875/76 to the University of Rostock . He finished his studies at the Philipps University of Marburg , which made him Dr. med. PhD.

He began his surgical training with Wilhelm Roser in Marburg. From 1878 to 1881 he was with Alfred Genzmer , Paul Kraske and Maximilian Oberst with Richard von Volkmann in the surgical clinic of the Friedrichs University in Halle . After a short time as a private surgeon in Frankfurt am Main , in 1882 he became senior physician at the children's hospital in Dresden .

In 1895 he married Elisabeth Oberländer . On April 1, 1896, after the suicide of his predecessor Hermann Seidel , who had also worked with Richard von Volkmann from 1881 to 1886 , he took over the management of the surgical department of the Ducal Hospital in Braunschweig as senior physician .

In 1914, the president of the German Society for Surgery elected, he could not take office because he was in the First World War infected in supplying of a gunshot wound. At the age of 63 he succumbed to sepsis . He was buried in the New Annenfriedhof in Dresden. There is also a memorial cross for him on the grave of his sister at the Waren cemetery.

Cenotaph (center) for Otto Sprengel in Waren (Müritz)

Works

• Appendicitis . Enke, Stuttgart 1906.

Honors

• Honorary professor
• Secret Medical Council (1915)
• President of the German Society for Surgery (1915, did not stand)

literature

• Obituary . Archive for Clinical Surgery 106 (1915), p. 43.

Web links

• Image (medicusbooks.com)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Archives of the Corps Borussia Tübingen
2. ↑ Towfigh / Hierner / Langer: Hand surgery
3. ↑ Krämer / Grifka: Orthopedics
4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 127/25.
5. ↑ Rostock matriculation portal
6. ↑ Dissertation: About the dislocation of the forearm outwards with interposition of the internal epicondyle .
7. ↑ Jürgen Kniesz: Waren (Müritz) - a tour through the city (history)
8. ↑ Dr. Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigische Chronik für d. J. 1896. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin . Nro. January 1, 1897. Page 6. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. Third volume. Born in 1897. Braunschweig. 1897. page 6.
9. ↑ Sprengel, OGK (The Man Behind the Syndrome)
10. ↑ Chronicle of the Waren (Müritz) cemetery , Auguste Sprengel grave site No. 42, p. 20.