Theodor-Otto Lindenschmidt

Theodor-Otto Lindenschmidt (born October 3, 1917 in Freudenberg (Siegerland) , † January 25, 1982 in Hamburg-Harburg ) was a German surgeon.

Life

Lindenschmidt studied medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Rostock and the University of Hamburg . In 1944 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. From 1945 to 1947 he worked at the Medical University Clinic with Arthur Jores and Hans Heinrich Berg . In the Eppendorfer Clinic he befriended the painter Hanno Edelmann . Like the senior operating room nurse, he promoted him for many years. In 1948 he moved to the Surgical University Clinic under Georg Ernst Konjetzny and completed his habilitation in 1952 under his successor Albert Lezius . Then he was senior physician at Ludwig Zukschwerdt . Appointed associate professor at the University of Hamburg in 1959 , he was elected chief physician of the II. Surgical Clinic of the AK Barmbek . In 1962 and 1966, he headed the 90th and 98th meetings of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in Hamburg . In 1970 he was President of the German Society for Surgery . He was the chief editor of The Surgeon from 1969 to 1982 . The brother-in-law of the Hanoverian internist Fritz Hartmann died of recurrent bladder cancer shortly before he entered retirement age in the Harburg AK . He published his first comprehensive monograph on surgical pathophysiology - the second edition of the classic as a “polygon book” had failed.

Publications (selection)

• with Volker Bay and Erhard Carstensen: Compendium of pre- and postoperative therapy . G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1966.
• Pathophysiological foundations of surgery and their effects on surgical action . G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1958, 2nd edition ibid 1975. ISBN 978-3-13-372702-0 .

literature

• Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 204–205.

Web links

• WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: On the history of gastric cancer detected in the early stages .
2. ↑ Hans Heinrich Berg in the Hamburg professors catalog (accessed on September 29, 2019) 
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Clinical and experimental studies on the proteolysis of the operated stomach .
4. ↑ Theodor-Otto Lindenschmidt in the Hamburg professors catalog (accessed on September 30, 2019) 
5. ^ Former presidents of the DGCH
6. ^ Catalog of the Springer journals