Paul Leopold Friedrich

Paul Leopold Friedrich (born January 26, 1864 in Roda , Saxony-Altenburg ; † January 15, 1916 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German surgeon , university professor and medical officer .

Life

After studying medicine at the University of Leipzig , he received his doctorate in 1888, worked as an assistant to Robert Koch at the Berlin Imperial Health Department , became court doctor to King Albert in 1892 and, at the end of 1892, an assistant doctor at the surgical university clinic in Leipzig. In 1894 he completed his habilitation. In 1896 he became director of the Surgical University Clinic in Leipzig, in 1903 as the successor to August Bier Ordinarius and director of the Surgical University Clinic at the University of Greifswald . In 1905 he and his senior physician Ferdinand Sauerbruch undertook thorax experimentssurgery and stimulated him to do endocrinological research on " parabiotic " animals. In 1907 he was appointed to the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1911 he took over the chair at the Prussian Albertus University in Königsberg . There was his student and successor Martin Kirschner .

During the First World War , he served as an advisory surgeon and senior physician general with the I. Army Corps from August 1, 1914 , when the Russian attack on East Prussia came. He was already working in a field hospital during the Battle of Gumbinnen on August 19 and 20, 1914 . A letter to his wife dated August 22, 1914, in which he reports on the dramatic events, is one of the few direct records of the academic leadership in East Prussia in the first weeks of the war. Through his restless work as a military doctor, he suffered severe kidney and heart disease, from which he died in January 1916.

After his own animal experiments, in 1896, he demanded that a wound be cut out within 6 hours. In 1907 he improved the surgical method of thoracoplasty, which had been tried since 1885 . With Ferdinand Sauerbruch , who in 1904 had presented the vacuum chamber he had invented for interventions in the chest, he worked on the further development of thoracic surgery .

Quotes

"Being poor is hard, being poor and sick is even harder, that's why the nicest house we build is just good enough for the poor sick man."

- Ceremonial address at the inauguration of the surgical clinic in Greifswald on November 2, 1903

“Something like rushing wounded, crying for help, blood and shattered young human bodies. It cannot be described. "

- Letter to his wife dated August 22, 1914

family

In 1900 Friedrich married Charlotte von Bülow (1878–1973), daughter of the Senate President at the Reichsgericht Karl Friedrich Julius von Bülow . The marriage produced four sons and one daughter, including

• Carl Joachim Friedrich , Professor of Political Science at Harvard and Heidelberg
• Otto Andreas Friedrich , entrepreneur and President of the Confederation of Employers' Associations

literature

• Martin Kirschner : Paul Friedrich †. In: German Medical Weekly . 42 (1916), p. 230 f.
• Andreas Mettenleiter : Testimonials, memories, diaries and letters from German-speaking doctors. Supplements and supplements II (A – H). In: Würzburg medical history reports. 21, 2002, pp. 490-518, here p. 506.
• Christian Tilitzki : “It cannot be described.” The surgeon Paul Friedrich in the battle of Gumbinnen (1914). In: Yearbook Prussia . Volume 46 (2008). ISSN  0032-7972 , pp. 40-54.

Web links

• Overview of the courses of Paul Leopold Friedrich at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1895 to summer semester 1903)
• Paul Leopold Friedrich in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Biography at www.deboor.de
• Biography at www.taichi-online.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anne and Kirsten Büsing: Alumni and their ex-libris. 600 years of Leipzig University. Vieweg + Teubner Verlag , Wiesbaden 2011, p. 56 f.
2. ↑ Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 103.
3. ↑ compare also Paul Leopold Friedrich: From the Greek military hospitals in Saloniki and Athens at the end of the second Balkan war. Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift 60 (1913), No. 45–47
4. ^ PL Friedrich: The aseptic care of fresh wounds. Arch Klin Chir. 57 (1898), pp. 288-310.
5. ↑ Christoph Weißer: Thorax surgery. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1397.
6. ↑ to: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
7. ↑ printed in: Christian Tilitzki: "It cannot be described." The surgeon Paul Friedrich in the battle of Gumbinnen (1914). In: Prussia. Volume 46 (2008), ISSN  0032-7972 , p. 51