Otto Wilhelm Madelung
Otto Wilhelm Madelung (born May 15, 1846 in Gotha , † July 22, 1926 in Göttingen ) was a German surgeon and university professor.
Life
Madelung's wealthy parents were Moritz Madelung (1802–1877) and his wife Eleonore geb. Perthes . His grandfathers were the bankers Wilhelm Madelung and Friedrich Christoph Perthes .
Madelung grew up in Gotha. From 1865 he studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and in 1865 became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen . In Tübingen he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . During his studies he practiced at the sanatorium in Siegburg and in the reserve hospital in Diez .
From 1871 he was an assistant doctor to Wilhelm Busch (physician) in Bonn surgery. He completed his habilitation in 1873 and then continued to work under Georg Eduard Rindfleisch . From 1874 to 1879 he worked in England and the United States . After returning to Bonn, he was appointed associate professor in 1881 . The University of Rostock appointed him in 1882 as full professor and director of the surgical clinic. In 1894 he moved to the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg as the successor to Albert Lücke .
As a professor at the University of Strasbourg, he would have been designated as an advisory surgeon of the 15th Army Corps at the beginning of World War I in 1914 . Due to Madelung's old age, the war volunteer and surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch from Zurich was recruited as senior staff doctor for this post.
He was married to Hedwig Auguste Madelung since 1876 . King (1857-1898) . Children from this marriage were the chemist Walter Madelung (1879–1963), the physicist Erwin Madelung (1881–1972) and the aircraft engineer Georg Hans Madelung (1889–1972). On June 12, 1899, he married Ottilie Franziska Keller in Philadelphia. His daughter Auguste Elenora "Tussa" from this marriage married the physicist Robert Wichard Pohl . Although Pohl died 50 years after Madelung, he rests in the same grave in the city cemetery (Göttingen) .
Namesake
- Madelung deformity of the forearm
- Lipomatosis = Madelung's disease, fatty throat
Publications (selection)
- Contributions by Mecklenburg doctors to the teaching of echinococcal disease , Otto Wilhelm Madelung, Stuttgart, Enke, 1885
- The spontaneous subluxation of the hand forward (pp. 259–276, 1 plate with 6 illustrations). Rat. Dtsch. Ges. Chir., 7. - Berlin, A. Hirschwald, 1878, 8 °, XVIII, 148, 276 p., Woodcuts, 3 figs., HLwdBd .; St.v. O. Hilgenfeldt on purpose.
literature
- Ronald D. Gerste : Otto Wilhelm Madelung - a versatile surgeon and descriptor of lipomatosis . Chirurgische Allgemeine , Volume 18, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 19–22.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 270
- ↑ Dissertation: On the application of the rubbings of Unguentum Stibio-Kali tartarici in the vertex area in certain psychoses .
- ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 171 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Madelung, Otto Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon and university professor in Bonn, Rostock and Strasbourg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1926 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |