Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein

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Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein
Birthplace in Stein am Rhein

Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein , also Rudolph Ulrich Krönlein (born February 19, 1847 in Stein am Rhein , † October 26, 1910 in Zurich ), was a Swiss surgeon.

Life

Ulrich Krönlein's parents were the tanner Johann Michael Krönlein and his wife Anna Elisabeth geb. Countess. He attended the canton school Schaffhausen and was a member of the Scaphusia Schaffhausen secondary school association . He began his medical studies in 1866 at the University of Zurich , continued it in 1868 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and finished it in Zurich in 1870 with the state examination. In the same year Krönlein - with Edmund Rose , Zurich professor of surgery - worked in the Tempelhof military hospital near Berlin during the Franco-German War . On August 8, 1872, Krönlein was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. Then he went to the famous Berlin surgeon Bernhard von Langenbeck . This was followed by his habilitation in 1874 and in 1878 he was appointed associate professor and director of the surgical clinic in Gießen. Krönlein returned to von Langenbeck as early as 1879. In 1881 he received the call from Zurich to succeed his teacher Rose as professor of surgery. In the same year (1881) he became director of the surgical clinic and polyclinic at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital . From 1886 to 1888, Krönlein was also rector of the University of Zurich. He was the doctoral supervisor of the first female Swiss surgeon, Dr. Anna Heer , whom he had also promoted. At Krönlein's clinic, his senior physician, Schlatter, performed one of the first successful surgical removals of the entire stomach ( gastrectomy ) in 1897 . In the autumn of 1910 Krönlein became seriously ill and resigned from his post. His successor on October 15, 1910, was Ferdinand Sauerbruch , who a few days before Krönlein’s death had received a donation of gold and money that he had kept at home (tax debts were paid from the rest of the estate after his death) to set up a children's department at the cantonal hospital and is also said to have burned the letters of a former lover for Krönlein. With this donation, together with a cash donation from Krönlein to the clinic's board of trustees, a children's clinic was built. Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery .

Specialties

Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein worked on peritonitis . As a pioneering work for the first time performed by him surgical removal is an inflamed appendix ( appendicitis ), the broken and the cause of a severe peritonitis was considered, so in 1884 the development of appendectomy in advanced appendicitis started (for the wife of the chemist and Nobel laureate Richard However, Willstätter's help came too late in 1908, as no operations were carried out during the night at the time, the operation of Krönlein, who suffered from acute and advanced appendicitis, was postponed until the next morning). For the operation of the pancreas Krönlein described the anatomical way. He is also considered a pioneer of lung resection, which he carried out on a girl with pulmonary sarcoma before Ferdinand Sauerbruch invented the differential pressure method .

membership

Krönlein was a member of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH), whose annual meeting in 1905 elected him chairman for a year.

Publications (selection)

  • Further remarks on the localization of the hematomas of the meningeal media artery and their operative treatment. In: Contributions to clinical surgery. 13, pp. 66–74, 1895 see also http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2009/12416/
  • A word of defense. Separately printed by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zurich 1903.

See also

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Open wound treatment based on experiences from the surgical clinic in Zurich .
  2. ^ Carl Schlatter: On nutrition and digestion after complete removal of the stomach - oesophagoenterostomy - in humans. In: Bruns' Contributions to Clinical Surgery. Volume 19, 1897, pp. 757-776.
  3. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff : That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, pp. 123–132 and 304 f ..
  4. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 130.
  5. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. (1951) 1956, p. 288 f.
personal data
SURNAME Krönlein, Rudolf Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Stone at the Rhein
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1910
Place of death Zurich