Qiu Fazu

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Qiu Fazu , Chinese  裘 法 祖 , Pinyin Qiú Fǎzǔ (born December 6, 1914 in Hangzhou , Zhejiang , † June 14, 2008 in Wuhan , Hubei ) was a Chinese surgeon and rescuer of Jewish prisoners. In the People's Republic of China he is known as the "father of Chinese surgery".

Life

Because of the untimely death of his mother, who died of appendicitis in China in 1933 due to insufficient medical assistance , Qiu was determined to study medicine. First he graduated from the "German Medical School" in Shanghai , the predecessor of today's Tongji University . Then he went in 1936 as Humboldt - scholarship at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . There he was in November 1939 all tests with distinction, was established in 1940 with the pathologist Max bristle Dr. med. doctorate and received his license to practice medicine . From then on he was allowed to work as a doctor in Germany.

In September 1944, Qiu became a senior physician . On April 30 and May 1, 1945, thousands of concentration camp prisoners came through Bad Tölz on their death march from the Dachau concentration camp . As a 31-year-old chief physician, Qiu was in charge of the “ Jodquellenhof ”, which was converted into a makeshift hospital . During these days he was led by the Munich student nurse Loni to a group of around 40 prisoners who were standing on the street in front of the hospital, guarded by the SS . Qiu later: "A misery, sick and weak, they could not go any further and crouched on the ground." He gathered his courage and ordered the soldiers: "These prisoners have typhoid . We have to take them with us. ” He hid the concentration camp inmates in the hospital cellar until the end of the war and nursed them back to health. His German colleagues helped him, as did his student sister Loni König, who came from Bad Tölz and who Qiu married after the end of the war in 1945.

In 1946, Qiu returned to Shanghai with his German wife, who would later be called Qiu Luoyi and who took Chinese citizenship in 1958. There he worked as a consultant (consultant) for surgery in the Ministry of Health and head of the surgical department of the second military medicine university. In 1951 he was a surgeon in the Korean War and in 1952 he became a professor of surgery at Tongji University, which was then still in Shanghai, and after their move to Wuhan he was professor there and in Shanghai at the same time. During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) he was a. a. used for cleaning toilets. During this time he found great support in his wife. However, it had to hide itself during the Cultural Revolution. Later she taught German.

After the "revolution" in 1978, Qiu became Vice President of Tongji Medical University in Wuhan, which had since been completely relocated from Tongji University in Shanghai to Wuhan and is now a department of the Central China University of Science and Technology . In addition, he became head of the Organ Transplant Research Institute. In 1981 he became the rector of his university and from 1984 until his death he was its honorary rector.

Qiu was one of the most respected surgeons in China, a pioneer in Chinese abdominal surgery and organ transplants, who performed the first liver transplants there. In addition to organ transplantation, he published on oncological surgery and surgery for high blood pressure ( portal hypertension ) as well as complications from infectious diseases such as schistosomiasis and tuberculosis. He wrote a widely published standard textbook on surgery that is still valid today and was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . From 1975 to 1993 he was also a member of the Chinese Communist Party deputy of the 4th to the 7th National People's Congress . He was chairman of the Hubei Provincial Surgery Society and, at times, of all of China.

He was a founding member of the Sino-German Society for Medicine (CDGM) in Wuhan in 1984.

Qiu died at the age of 94 and was buried in Wuhan on June 14, 2008. He and his wife received the Paulun Medal from the CDGM.

Awards

literature

  • Ursus-Nikolaus Riede, Martin Werner, Nikolaus Freudenberg: Basic knowledge of general and special pathology. Springer 2009 (short biographies of Wu Zhongbi and Qiu Fazu in the book's dedication to both, limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Wilhelm-Wolfgang Höpker: 100 years of German-Chinese cooperation in medicine. Lively exchange in many areas In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 105, 2008, issue 49, biography on p. A 2649 ( online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Tschu knows what to do. In: Upper Bavarian Volksblatt . August 25, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Qiu Fazu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hangzhou , Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2008
Place of death Wuhan , Hubei, People's Republic of China