Victor von Bruns

Portrait of Victor von Bruns (oil painting by Roland Risse , Tübingen Professorengalerie )

Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Paul Victor Bruns , from 1854 von Bruns , (born August 9, 1812 in Helmstedt , † March 19, 1883 in Tübingen ), was a German surgeon .

Life

Victor von Bruns was born into a family of scholars from Helmstedt who immigrated from Holstein . His father was the Privy Councilor Johann Georg Theodor Bruns (1786–1835), his mother Friedericke (1786–1822) was a daughter of the philologist and teacher Johann Heinrich Justus Köppen (1755–1781). Victor von Bruns' grandfather, the orientalist Paul Jakob Bruns (1743–1814), had made a name for himself as a man of many different kinds as a professor in Halle and Helmstedt . So Bruns grew up in a well-protected family environment. From 1831 he studied in Braunschweig , Tübingen , Halle and Berlin . He settled in Braunschweig in 1837 as a doctor , taught anatomy at the Anatomical-Surgical Institute from 1839 and wrote a textbook on general anatomy . Bruns turned exclusively to surgery and was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Tübingen in 1843. He worked here until 1881. He was succeeded by his son Paul von Bruns .

Services

Bruns worked in all areas of surgery, he worked in the field of plastic surgery . He achieved particular success in lip and cheek reconstruction and as a specialist in laryngeal diseases . This earned him a good reputation that went far beyond Germany's borders. Bruns is said to have a safe technique in the use of the larynx mirror , the use of which he perfected, so that in 1861 a larynx polyp could be removed, thereby establishing endolaryngeal surgery. Bruns paved the way for wound treatment. He succeeded in producing absorbent cotton wool from cotton through degreasing and bleaching. The so-called Bruns cotton wool , a hygienic and absorbent dressing, improved wound care .

In 1873 the Paul Hartmann bleaching, dyeing and finishing company in Heidenheim began with the production of degreased cotton wool. The associations from so-called "Lister'scher carbolic acid - Gaze " were with antiseptics after one of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister impregnated developed procedures and had germicidal effect.

Victor von Bruns was a founding member of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH) in 1872 .

Awards

• 1854: Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . Until 1913, the award of the order was associated with the elevation to the personal, non-inheritable nobility for Württemberg subjects .
• 1868: Honorary citizen of the city of Tübingen
• 1871: Commentary Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown

Fonts

One of the plates from: Surgical Atlas , 1853

• Textbook of general human anatomy. After own investigations for use in lectures, as well as for self-study for general practitioners and surgeons. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1841.
• Practical Surgery Manual. 2 volumes. Tübingen 1854/1859; Atlas 1853 ff.
• Cutting of the facial nerves in facial pain. Tubingen 1859.
• Contribution to the treatment of poorly healed broken legs. Berlin 1861.
• The first eradication of a polyp in the larynx by cutting it up without opening the airways bloody. In addition to a short guide to laryngoscopy. Tübingen 1862; Addendum 1863.
• Surgical medicine. 2 volumes. Tübingen 1873 ( digitized volume 1 in the Internet Archive ).
• Medicinal operations or presentation of all methods of manual application of medicinal substances. Laupp, Tübingen 1869 ( digitized version ).
• Laryngoscopy and laryngoscopic surgery. Laupp, Tübingen 1865, with atlas; 2nd edition 1873.
• Electroplating. Tübingen 1870 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).
• Galvano-caustic apparatus and instruments. Laupp, Tübingen 1878.
• The amputation of the limbs by circular incision with an anterior skin flap. Laupp, Tübingen 1879 ( digitized in the Internet Archive).

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hans Killian : Master of surgery . 2nd Edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 1980, p. 208.
2. ↑ Christian von Deuster: Larynx surgery. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 730.
3. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1869, p. 45.
4. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1877, p. 24.

literature

• Otto Hildebrand :  Bruns, Viktor von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 312 f.
• Julius Pagel : Bruns, Victor von . In: Ders .: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, column 263 f.
• Gerhard Saltzwedel: Victor von Bruns (1812-1883) - life and work. Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1977 (Contubernium, Volume 13), ISBN 3-16-939301-4 .
• Eberhard Stübler:  Bruns, Viktor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 687 ( digitized version ).
• Andrea Klose: Victor von Bruns and the sterile cotton wool. In: Karlheinz Wiegmann (Ed.): There and away. Tübingen all over the world, Kulturamt, Tübingen 2007 (Tübingen catalogs, volume 77), pp. 37–45, ISBN 978-3-910090-77-4 .
• Ronald D. Gerste : “The most worthy representative of surgery in southern Germany”: On the 200th birthday of Victor von Bruns. In: Surgical General . 14th year (2013), 5th issue, pp. 354–358.

See also

• Galvanocaustics (medicine)

Web links

Commons : Victor von Bruns  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Victor von Bruns  in the German Digital Library