Walter Brendel (doctor)
Walter Brendel (born November 6, 1922 in Karlsruhe , † August 29, 1989 in Munich ) was a German surgeon . He was the founder of the Institute for Surgical Research at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Brendel was the son of a director of a trading house. He studied medicine in Heidelberg with his doctorate in 1948. From 1950 he was assistant and later senior assistant at the W.-G. Kerckhoff Institute of the Max Planck Society in Bad Nauheim , where he researched the circulation and regulation of body temperature and stayed until 1961. In 1959 he completed his habilitation in Giessen and from 1961 he was head of experimental surgery at the Surgical University Clinic in Munich, the establishment of which was suggested by Rudolf Zenker . In 1965 he became an adjunct professor and in 1969 a full professor for experimental surgery (the first such chair in Germany). From 1969 he had his own institute, which from 1979 had its own building in the Großhadern Clinic . Brendel headed the institute until early 1989.
Together with Pichlmayr (and at the suggestion of Zenker), Brendel developed an antilymphocyte serum (ALS, Munich Serum ) which, by reducing rejection reactions, represented a significant advance in organ transplants . In December 1967 he and Hans Georg Borst spent a week at Christiaan Barnard's in Cape Town to find out about the first heart transplant . The ALS could already be used there for Philip Blaiberg's second heart transplant . It was also used for the first German heart transplant in 1969 under Rudolf Zenker.
His institute also focused on the pathophysiology of cerebral edema after head trauma , extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (which was developed at his institute under Christian Chaussy in collaboration with Dornier), i.e. the destruction of kidney stones with ultrasound , and the transmission of Organs researched between different species.
From 1969 he published the journal European Surgical Research . In 1983 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Sao Paulo . His institute received, among other things, the highly endowed sponsorship award for European science.
He was co-founder and from 1984 to 1986 chairman of the Society for Biomedical Research. From 1969 to 1981 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center on Transplantation Research . From 1969 he was President of the European Society for Experimental Surgery.
Brendel was a boy scout in his youth , was a passionate mountaineer and skier and went on excursions in folding boats . In 1955 he was a participant in a German-Austrian Himalayan expedition . From 1976 to 1980 he was chairman of the comparative high mountain research group .
Walter Land and Rudolf Pichlmayr are among his students . In 1993, Land founded the Walter Brendel College for Transplant Medicine in Wildbad Kreuth to train in organ transplantation. The German Society for General and Visceral Surgery awards the Walter Brendel Prize for outstanding dissertations.
In 1952 he married Jutta Weyl, with whom he had two daughters.
literature
- Entry in the Munzinger archive
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brendel, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1989 |
| Place of death | Munich |