Walter Klestadt

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Walter Dagobert Klestadt (born February 26, 1883 in Bernburg , † January 20, 1985 in Fall River , Bristol County , Massachusetts ) was a German-American ENT doctor .

Life

The from Bernburg an der Saale native Walter Klestadt, a member of the Jewish community , turned to the High School to study medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to which he in 1906 with the promotion of Dr. med. completed. After the following years as an assistant doctor, he completed his specialist training as an ENT doctor.

After Klestadt had taken part in the First World War on the German side in the rank of captain , he completed his habilitation in 1919 as a private lecturer in the subject of ear. Nasal and larynx medicine at the University of Wroclaw . As a senior physician at the University Clinic for Ear. Walter Klestadt, who used nose and larynx diseases, received the title of non-civil servant extraordinary professor in 1922 , and in 1935 he was appointed full professor . In addition, he worked as a lecturer at the Academy for Medical Training and Social Medicine in Magdeburg from 1930 to 1933 .

After Walter Klestadt was dismissed from university in 1938 because of his Jewish origins, he emigrated to the USA. He settled in Fall River , Massachusetts , where he opened an ENT practice. In 1945 he was granted US citizenship, and in 1951 he was officially retired . Walter Klestadt died in Fall River in January 1985, one month before the age of 102. He found his final resting place in the Beech Grove Cemetery in Westport, Massachusetts.

Klestadt, who was elected a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, stood out in particular for his contributions to his field. The Klestadt cysts, which are malformation-related mucus-filled cysts in the hard palate , are named after him.

Fonts

  • About cystic tumors in the area of ​​the cerebral infundibulum. Dissertation . Medical Faculty University of Munich. Kastner & Callwey, Munich 1906.
  • Surgery of the sinuses of the nose. 1913.
  • Experience from working as an ear, nose and throat doctor in the field. Bergmann, Munich / Wiesbaden 1920.
  • A perfected noise machine. In: Archives for ear, nose and larynx medicine. Volume 115, Issue 2. German Society of Ear, Nose and Throat Doctors, Berlin 1926, pp. 115–122.
  • Upper airway lymphoma as a major symptom of aleukemic leukemia. In: German Medical Weekly. Volume 52, Issue 16. Thieme, Stuttgart, 1926, pp. 659-660.
  • The otogenic brain abscess. In: Clinical weekly. Volume 6, Issue 8. Springer, Berlin 1927, pp. 361-367.
  • with Richard Kayser: Instructions for the diagnosis and therapy of larynx, nose and ear diseases. 15.-16. revised edition. Karger, Berlin 1928.
  • Use of electricity in ear medicine. In: Heinrich Johannes Boruttau, Paul Krause, Ludwig Mann: Supplementary volume to the manual of the entire medical application of electricity. Thieme, Leipzig, 1928, p. 411.
  • Syphilis of the larynx and trachea. In: Handbook of skin and venereal diseases. Volume 16, part 2. Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin, 1931, pp. 57-94.
  • Comparative consideration of the acute inflammatory complications of tooth and tonsil diseases. Publishing house, Berlin 1932.

literature

  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.), Werner Schuder (Hrsg.), Joseph Kürschner (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1928/29 . 3rd edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 1929, ISBN 3-1110-7168-5 , Sp. 1176.
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology: Directory - American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Rochester, Minn. [etc.], 1964, pp. 53, 149.
  • Joe T. Smith (Ed.): American directory of otolaryngologists and ophthalmologists: a listing of otolaryngologists and ophthalmologists: with professional biography. Joe T. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn., 1965, p. 74.
  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. Volume 1. 10th edition, W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1966, p. 1192.
  • Directory of Medical Specialists Holding Certification by American Specialty Boards. : Volume 10, Marquis, Chicago, 1961, p. 771.
  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Volume 2. 13th Edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 . P. 1942.
  • Obituary Walter D. Klestadt. in: Fall River herald news, Fall River Daily Herald Pub. Co., Fall River, Mass., January 21, 1985
  • Eberhard Krüger, Gerhard Frenkel: Operating theory for dentists. in: Volume 3 of the textbook of surgical dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine, Quintessenz Bibliothek, Quintessenz-Verlag, Berlin, 1993, ISBN 3-8765-2146-7 , pp. 299, 456.

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personal data
SURNAME Klestadt, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klestadt, Walter Dagobert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American ENT doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1985
Place of death Fall River , Bristol County , Massachusetts