Walter Krienitz

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Walter Krienitz

Walter Krienitz (born November 6, 1876 in Halberstadt ; † November 14, 1943 there ) was a German physician who was one of the first to describe bacteria in the human stomach.

Life

Walter Krienitz studied medicine from 1896 to 1902 at the universities of Würzburg, Berlin and Halle / Saale. On April 4, 1902, he obtained his license to practice medicine and received his doctorate in 1903 in Halle / Saale. From 1906 to 1928 Krienitz worked in a private clinic for stomach, intestinal and metabolic diseases in Halberstadt. In the mid-1920s, he developed severe encephalitis . Due to an increasing right hemiplegia , he had to quit his medical practice in 1928.

In terms of medical history, Walter Krienitz is one of the first doctors to describe gastric bacteria in humans. A memorial plaque in Halberstadt's Burchardi monastery has been commemorating this since the beginning of 2019. In 2005, almost 90 years after this publication, the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for the discovery of Helicobacter pylori was awarded to B. J. Marshall and J. R. Warren from Australia.

Since 2007 the Walter Krienitz Association for the Promotion of Medicine has existed in memory of Walter Krienitz . V.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ W. Krienitz: About the appearance of spirochetes of various forms in the stomach contents in carcinoma ventriculi. In: Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 32, 1906, p. 872.
  2. ^ S. Rickes, U. Schultze, K. Mönkemüller, P. Malfertheiner: Walter Krienitz - His life and his intuitive description of bacteria in the stomach. In: Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 131, 2006, pp. 1341-1343.
  3. ^ S. Rickes, U. Schultze, K. Mönkemüller, P. Malfertheiner: The German physician Walter Krienitz: A pioneer in gastric research. In: Scand J Gastroenterol. 42, 2007, pp. 663-664.
  4. ↑ Uwe Kraus: Memorial plaque for the man from the ice. "Ötzi", found in 1991 in an alpine glacier, suffered from a stomach germ, the discoverer of which comes from Halberstadt. In: Neues Deutschland, January 22, 2019, p. 12 https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1110498.gedenkafel-fuer-den-mann-aus-dem-eis.html
  5. ↑ Walter Krienitz In: krienitzverein.de , accessed on January 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Krienitz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1943
Place of death Halberstadt