Otto Voss (medic, 1869)

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Otto Voss (born August 10, 1869 in Glauchau ; † July 15, 1959 ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school in St. Afra in Meißen in 1889 , he studied medicine in Berlin until he received his doctorate in 1893. Then he became a military doctor in Strasbourg ( Alsace ) and in 1901 assistant to Ferdinand Trautmann at the Charité in Berlin . In 1905 he was transferred to Königsberg (East Prussia) , where he qualified as a professor for nose and ear diseases. In 1907 he received the title of professor, but left the University of Albertina and moved to the city clinic in Frankfurt am Main as chief physician of the ear clinic . Since 1914 he was a professor at the newly founded University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1915/16 he was deployed as a military doctor on the Eastern Front in the First World War. In 1929 he also took over the Frankfurt nose and throat clinic from Gustav Spiess until his retirement in 1937. He discovered a. a. birth trauma to the ear. Otto Voss was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1928.

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Handbook of medical experience in the world wars 1914/1918. Vol. 6 Hearing Organ, Upper Air and Food Routes , Leipzig 1921

literature

  • Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University in Königsberg - its history from the founding of the Empire to the fall of the Province of East Prussia (1871-1945) , Vol. 1 (1871-1918), Akademie Verlag 2012, p. 638 ISBN 9783050043128

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Otto Voss at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ENT doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1959