Rudolf Eisenmenger

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Rudolf Eisenmenger (born September 12, 1871 in Karlsburg , † June 27, 1946 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physician and inventor of the bio engine , a forerunner of the iron lung .

Life

Rudolf Eisenmenger attended high school in Broos , a small town in Transylvania . He studied medicine in Cluj and received his doctorate in 1896. He then worked as a general practitioner and later as a district and railway doctor in Piski and Broos. He then worked as a spa doctor in Baassen and then ran a sanatorium in Sibiu . From 1921 he lived with his family in Vienna .

In 1900, while he was still living in Broos, Rudolf Eisenmenger invented the "biomotor". The occasion was the death of his niece, who suffocated from a severe whooping cough attack in his presence . In 1903 he published an “apparatus for artificial breathing” with foot-operated bellows to generate suction and pressure over the abdomen and lower thorax. The device was patented and was produced commercially by F. & M. Lautenschläger in Munich from 1904 . In 1924 the foot-operated bellows was replaced by an electric motor. The "Biomotor" was used in many clinics, especially for the treatment of patients with polio .

A photo of Rudolf Eisenmenger taken around 1930/1935 during the demonstration of his invention of the bio engine served the painter Salvador Dalí as a model for his painting The Pharmacist of Ampurias in Search of Absolutely Nothing from 1936.

Rudolf Eisenmenger was a cousin of Viktor Eisenmenger , the personal physician of Emperor Franz Joseph I. He is the father of the painter Rudolf Hermann Eisenmenger .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eisenmenger, Rudolf. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia. KG Saur, Berlin 2011, accessed on October 24, 2014.
  2. ^ WH Maleck, KP Koetter: Rudolf Eisenmenger and his biomotor . In: AINS - Anesthesiology · Intensive Care Medicine · Emergency Medicine · Pain Therapy 34, 1999, pp. 402-408, doi : 10.1055 / s-1999-10829 .
  3. ^ A b c Eisenmenger, Rudolf In: Rotraut Sutter: Siebenbürger Sachsen in Austria's past and present. Univ.-Verlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1976. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, Part 3, p. 222.
  4. ↑ Compare Rudolf Hermann Eisenmenger. eisenmenger.at, accessed on October 24, 2014.
  5. ↑ Compare US 5454779 A - For performing CPR. Google patents, accessed October 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ Compare the Hirschhorn estate. City Archives Munich, p. 20 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Eisenmenger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsburg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1946
Place of death Vienna