René Baumgartner

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René Baumgartner (born February 12, 1930 in Grenchen ; † October 23, 2018 in Zumikon ) was a Swiss orthopedist and university professor . Like no other, he stood for the connection between clinical and technical orthopedics.

Life

Baumgartner attended the Solothurn Cantonal School , where he joined the Wengia Solodorensis student association . He studied medicine at the Universities of Lausanne , Bern , Vienna and Basel . He became a specialist in surgery and orthopedics at the university hospitals in Basel, Zurich and Geneva. In 1959 he was at the University of Zurich to Dr. med. PhD. In 1970 he came to the Balgrist University Hospital as a senior physician . There he completed his habilitation in 1973. The Westphalian Wilhelms University appointed him in 1985 as head of the clinic and polyclinic for technical orthopedics. In 1996 he was in Münster emeritus . His successor, Hans-Henning Wetz, was the last professor for technical orthopedics.

The collaboration between medicine and orthopedic technology became his life's theme. In 1970 he was one of the founders, from 1984 to 1989 on the board of directors of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO). For over 25 years he was involved in the advisory committee of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery for the interests of orthopedic shoemakers . In more than 360 publications and book chapters and countless lectures, he advocated that orthopedists and surgeons consider and use the requirements and supply options of technical orthopedics in their work.

Honors

  • Honorary master of the orthopedic shoemaker's trade
  • Heine-Hessing Medal of the Federal Association for Orthopedic Technology (2014)
  • Honorary member of the German Society for Surgery (DGC)

Fonts (selection)

  • with Hartmut Stinus: The orthopedic care of the foot. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-13-486603-X .

literature

  • Ruedolf ​​Jaeggi: René Baumgartner v / o Omega. February 12, 1930 to October 23, 2018. In: Der Wengianer. Vol. 131, No. 1, February 2019, pp. 27–29 ( PDF ).
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Experimental contribution to the elimination of electrically generated ventricular fibrillation .
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Leg amputations and prosthesis fitting for arterial circulatory disorders .
  3. ^ Notice of death in: Surgical General . Vol. 19, H. 11/12, November / December 2018, p. 527.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. René Baumgartner passed away. Orthopädieschuhtechnik website , October 26, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2019 (with a good picture).
  5. ^ Bernhard Greitemann, Lutz Brückner, Michael Schäfer: Obituary - In memoriam Prof. Dr. René Baumgartner . Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery 2019, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 36
personal data
SURNAME Baumgartner, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenchen , Canton of Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2018
Place of death Zumikon , Canton of Zurich