Reinhard Pfalz

Reinhard Karl Julius Pfalz (born January 16, 1930 in Breslau ; † September 6, 2014 in Ulm ) was a German ear, nose and throat doctor and first director of the ENT clinic at the Ulm University Hospital .

Life

Reinhard Pfalz was the son of a gynecologist. After studying medicine in Freiburg, Kiel, Innsbruck and Düsseldorf and obtaining his doctorate on a pathological topic at the University of Freiburg in 1957, he moved to the Physiological Institute at the University of Erlangen, which was headed by Wolf-Dieter Keidel . This was followed by ten years at the University ENT Clinic in Hamburg , where he completed his habilitation with Rudolf Link in 1968 in the field of ear, nose and throat medicine on efferent inhibition in the auditory pathway , and there most recently as senior physician and associate professor for ear Nose and throat medicine was active.

In 1972, Pfalz followed a call to Ulm as the first director of the newly established university ENT clinic there, which he headed for 23 years until his retirement in 1995. In addition, from 1990 onwards, Pfalz conducted research at the Institute for Laser Technologies at the University of Ulm and contributed to the development of the first clinically usable erbium-YAG laser for microsurgery on the human middle ear .

literature

• Wolfgang Pirsig: From the cortex to the cochlear nuclei - On the retirement of Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pfalz . Uni Ulm Intern 198, June 1995.
• Head of the ENT clinic, Reinhard Pfalz, said goodbye . Schwäbische Zeitung, March 31, 1995, article by Vera Sohmer.
• German Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery (Ed.): Academic teaching centers and teachers of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology in Germany in the 20th century . Springer, 1996, ISBN 978-3-642-80066-5 , p. 279.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Südwest-Presse Ulm, September 10, 2014