Paul von Bruns

Paul von Bruns

Paul Eduard von Bruns (born July 2, 1846 in Tübingen ; † June 2, 1916 there ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Paul's parents were the surgeon Viktor von Bruns and Caroline Crone (1823-1918). Paul married Marie Weizsäcker (1857–1939), a daughter of Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker, in 1877 . Her brother Karl von Weizsäcker - Richard von Weizsäcker's grandfather - became Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1906 . The von Bruns couple had two sons. Oskar Bruns (1878–1946), was professor of internal medicine in Königsberg; Viktor Bruns (1884–1943) was a teacher of international law in Berlin.

Paul von Bruns studied medicine at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and in 1867 became a corps bow bearer of the Suevia Tübingen . 1870 doctorate he became Dr. med. As his father's assistant, he completed his habilitation in 1875. He became associate professor in 1877 and in 1881 took over his father's chair . He was the personal physician of the King of Württemberg and chief physician-general of the Württemberg army . He died in World War I on June 2, 1916, a month before his 70th birthday.

Fonts (selection)

• About the effect and significance of the Mauser self-loading pistol in war surgery. Laupp, Tübingen 1897.
• ed. with Ernst von Bergmann : Handbook of practical surgery. 4 volumes. Enke, Stuttgart 1900-1901.
• (Editor) War surgery booklets of contributions to clinical surgery. 15 booklets. Laupp 1915-1919.

Honors

• Go advice
• Excellence
• 1896 - Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1886)
• 1898 - Commander of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
• Commander II class of the Frederick Order with swords
• Order of Olga
• Order of the Red Eagle II class
• Red Cross Medal II class
• Honorary Commander of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Albrecht
• Officer's Cross of the Order of the Rising Sun
• Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Romania
• President of the German Society for Surgery (1897)
• Richard Knecht's monument in Tübingen

literature

• Eberhard Stübler:  Bruns, Paul Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 686 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul von Bruns in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Paul von Bruns  in the German Digital Library
• Portrait photography (University Library Tübingen)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corps Lists 1910, 197 , 881
2. ↑ Hans Killian : Master of Surgery and the Surgery School in the entire German-speaking area. 2nd Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 1980, p. 208.
3. ↑ Wilhelm II. (Württemberg) was also Tübser Swabian
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Wuerttemberg) Army Corps for 1914. Published by the War Ministry . Mittler, Berlin 1914, p. 1159.
5. ↑ Künstlerlexikon Thieme-Becker, Vol. 20, p. 578