Paul Hermanek

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Paul Hermanek
Paul Hermanek on colorectal polyps (ca.1982).

Paul Hermanek (born March 8, 1924 in Vienna ) is a German pathologist and oncologist .

Life

Paul Hermanek is the son of the stockbroker Karl Hermanek and his wife Ilse Hermanek, b. Steiner . In 1955 he married Christine geb. Zimmermann , with whom he has two children, including the surgeon and associate professor at the University of Munich and head of the office of the Bavarian Working Group for Quality Assurance in Inpatient Care (BAQ), Peter Hermanek.

After the end of the Second World War , Paul Hermanek studied at the University of Vienna . There he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD and habilitation in 1966 with a thesis on pathological anatomy . In 1969 he completed his habilitation in the field of clinical pathology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , where he was also the head of the "Department" established on the initiative of the surgeon and longstanding professor of surgery at the university, Gerd Hegemann (1912–1999) for clinical pathology ”at the University Hospital Erlangen (1972 professor ). In 1990 he retired there. The collaboration between Hegemann and Hermanek had a worldwide impact on the "further development of surgical oncology."

In addition to his full-time work, Paul Hermanek was a member of numerous specialist committees, from 1991 to 1994 he headed the Diagnostic Standards Commission of the German Cancer Society and from 1995 to 1999 chaired the Quality Assurance Commission of the German Cancer Society.

Together with the pathologist Leslie Howard Sobin , Hermanek published the TNM classifications for the Union internationale contre le cancer for many years . “This“ Bible ”of the prognostic categorization of malignant diseases stipulates in detail the extent of the cancer suffering of an individual patient, thus enables international comparisons and is at the same time the basis for the individual treatment of the person affected. In doing so, Prof. Hermanek also anticipated the increasingly individualized cancer therapy for a long time. "

Hermanek has been a member of the KaV Norica Vienna Catholic student association since 1947 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hermann Bünte: The intraoperative rapid section examination. Methods and consequences, Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin / Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-541-05801-3 .
  • with Franz Paul Gall: Basics of clinical oncology. Witzstrock, Baden-Baden / Cologne / New York 1979, ISBN 3-87921-103-5 .
  • with Franz Paul Gall: lung tumors. (= Compendium of clinical tumor pathology . Vol. 2), Witzstrock, Baden-Baden / Cologne / New York 1979, ISBN 3-87921-124-8 .
  • Pathohistological assessment of tumors. perimed-Fachbuch-Verlagsgesellschaft, Erlangen 1983, ISBN 3-88429-070-3 .
  • Ed. And translator: TNM classification of malignant tumors. UICC, International Union against Cancer. 4th edition 2nd revision, Springer, Berlin a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-540-17602-0 .
  • with Gustav Wagner: Organ-specific tumor documentation. Principles and encryption instructions for clinic and practice. Springer, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-540-58711-X .
  • Ed. And translator: TNM-Atlas. Illustrated guide to the TNM / pTNM classification of malignant tumors. UICC, Internat. Union against Cancer. 4th edition, Springer, Berlin a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-540-63799-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Who is who? The German who's who. XLVIII 2009/10. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7950-2048-4 , p. 469.
  2. ↑ a b c d Paul Hermanek. In: Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender 2003. Bio-bibliographical directory of German-speaking scientists of the present, 19th edition, Volume IA – J, KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 1270.
  3. ↑ a b On the death of Prof. Dr. Gerd Hegemann. Pioneer of bypass surgery in Germany died. Media service AKTUELL No. 1789 of February 2, 1999 on presse.uni-erlangen.de, accessed on January 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b On the 90th birthday of Prof. Hermanek. Erlangen University Hospital, March 6, 2015, accessed April 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Personalia from FAU 2001. on presse.uni-erlangen.de, accessed on January 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hermanek, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna