Walter Brednow

Grave site in the north cemetery in Jena

Walter Brednow (born February 12, 1896 in Berlin , † September 11, 1976 in Jena ) was a German internist.

Life

Brednow was the son of a pharmacy owner. He attended the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Berlin and passed the final examination in August 1914. Originally, he wanted to become a Germanist and enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in October 1914 . Due to experiences during the First World War , however, he turned to medicine in 1916 and initially studied the subject in Berlin. He spent the winter semester of 1920/21 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1928 he was appointed associate professor at the Göttingen Clinic for the first time. In 1930 he completed his habilitation at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and was reappointed in 1936. Brednow received his first chief physician position in Cottbus in 1939 .

From 1945 he headed the Cottbus health department . In 1947 Brednow became full professor for internal medicine and director of the Jena Medical University Clinic . In 1950 he was also appointed director of the Jena University Tuberculosis Clinic . In 1958 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . He was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1960. In 1963 he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine .

After his death he was buried in the Jena North Cemetery.

Works

• Various book publications and specialist journals.
• With the publication Spiegel, Doppelspiegel und Spiegelungen, a “whimsical symbolism” of Goethe (1973) he made a contribution to literary studies.

literature

• Sebastian Tomesch: Prof. Dr. med. Walter Brednow (1896–1976) - life and work . Jena 2003

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Brednow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Member Post by Walter Brednow at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 27 September 2017th