Otto Werner (doctor)

Carl Wilhelm Otto Werner (born February 1, 1879 in Flensburg , † June 5, 1936 in Eddelak , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German medic. He became famous for his studies on premature aging. The Werner Syndrome was named after him.

Life

Werner studied medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . As part of his dissertation from 1904, "About cataracts in connection with scleroderma", he first described Werner syndrome as an independent disease entity. He described the course of the disease on the basis of four siblings who had this disease in their early 30s.

At the beginning of his professional life in 1904 he worked as an army doctor for an infantry unit in Schleswig-Holstein . During the First World War he was a ship's doctor on the SMS Thetis . From 1919 he suffered from liver cancer . Later Werner worked as a general practitioner in Eddelak . In 1936 he died of liver cancer.

Works

About cataracts associated with scleroderma. Dissertation University of Kiel. Kiel: Schmidt & Klaunig 1904.

literature

Darell Salk: Werner's Syndrome and Human Aging. Plenum Press, New York, 1982.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Darrell Salk: Werner's Syndrome and Human Aging . Plenum Press, 1982, ISBN 978-1-4684-7853-2 , pp. 2 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).
↑ Louis Caplan, José Biller: Uncommon Causes of Stroke . Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-107-14744-7 , pp. 190 ff . ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).
^ Peter Beighton, Greta Beighton: The Man Behind the Syndrome . Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4471-1415-4 , pp. 195 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).
^ Wilhelm Böke, Christian Andree: History of the University Eye Clinic Kiel, 1888-1988 . Karl Wachholtz, 1988, ISBN 978-3-529-06219-3 , p. 187 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).
↑ James Wynbrandt, Mark D. Ludman: The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects . Infobase Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4381-2095-9 , pp. 390 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).
↑ Jeffrey L. Ram, P. Michael Conn: Conn's Handbook of Models for Human Aging . Academic Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-12-811354-7 , pp. 3 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Werner, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Werner, Carl Wilhelm Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 5, 1936
Place of death	Eddelak , Schleswig-Holstein

[:0-1] Darrell Salk: Werner's Syndrome and Human Aging . Plenum Press, 1982, ISBN 978-1-4684-7853-2 , pp. 2 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).

[2] Louis Caplan, José Biller: Uncommon Causes of Stroke . Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-107-14744-7 , pp. 190 ff . ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).

[3] Peter Beighton, Greta Beighton: The Man Behind the Syndrome . Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4471-1415-4 , pp. 195 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).

[4] Wilhelm Böke, Christian Andree: History of the University Eye Clinic Kiel, 1888-1988 . Karl Wachholtz, 1988, ISBN 978-3-529-06219-3 , p. 187 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).

[5] James Wynbrandt, Mark D. Ludman: The Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects . Infobase Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4381-2095-9 , pp. 390 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).

[6] Jeffrey L. Ram, P. Michael Conn: Conn's Handbook of Models for Human Aging . Academic Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-12-811354-7 , pp. 3 ( google.de [accessed on November 18, 2019]).