Robert Hermann Tillmanns

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Robert Hermann Tillmans (born October 3, 1844 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † November 5, 1927 in Leipzig ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Born as the son of a businessman, Tillmanns studied after his Abitur at the Elberfelder Gymnasium (1865) in Bonn , Würzburg , Prague , Halle and Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1869 ( on facial paralysis in ear diseases ). During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity in 1865 . After his studies he worked as an assistant at the district hospital in Zwickau and at the surgical polyclinic in Leipzig, where Richard von Volkmann and Carl Thiersch awakened his interest in surgery. In 1870 he took part in the Franco-German War as an assistant doctor in Meaux and Paris . He then worked at the same time at the pathological, anatomical and physiological institute in Leipzig, where he dealt in particular with the structure and function of the joints.

In 1872 he married Clementine Steckner, with whom he later had five children (four daughters and one son). In 1875 he completed his habilitation, but was not appointed associate professor until 1889. Tillmanns never received a full professorship.
In 1888, together with Otto Heubner , he founded an association for the establishment and maintenance of a children's hospital in Leipzig, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1889 and which was inaugurated on December 6, 1891. Tillmanns became head of the pediatric surgery department. Tillmanns worked as a pediatric surgeon until 1919, most recently as a senior physician at the children's hospital in Leipzig.

Merits

From 1874 to 1879, Tillmanns published the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie together with Max Scheede and L. Lesser . He wrote the three-volume textbook on general and special surgery that appeared from 1888 to 1890 in a total of 12 editions. He is considered one of the founders of pediatric surgery and has received many awards, including an honorary doctorate from Sheffield University .

Publications

  • Central Journal for Surgery (1874–1879)
  • Textbook of general and special surgery (from 1888)
  • Modern surgery for educated laypeople (1908)

literature

  • Franca Noack-Wiemers: Robert Hermann Tillmanns (1844–1927) - a pioneer of pediatric surgery in Leipzig. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-937209-86-7 .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franca Noack-Wiemers: Robert Hermann Tillmanns (1844–1927) - a pioneer of pediatric surgery in Leipzig. Leipzig 2005, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Tillmanns, Robert Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tillmans, Robert Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic, surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1927
Place of death Leipzig