Walther Benthin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Walther Benthin (born December 18, 1882 in Köritz , Brandenburg province , † December 3, 1950 in Rheydt ) was a German gynecologist and university professor .

Life

He was the son of a postal secretary and his wife Martha. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Wittstock (Dosse) , he studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau . There he passed the Physicum in 1905. In the same year he signed up as a one-year volunteer. He performed this military service in Kiel in the 85th Infantry Regiment .

In December 1907 he passed the state examination in Kiel and did practical years at the Moltkefels sanatorium in Kiel, in Görlitz and in Heidenau (Saxony) . In 1909 he worked as a one-year voluntary doctor in Berlin for seven months before he got a job at the Pathological Institute of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital, where he worked until 1911. He then moved to the gynecological clinic in Frankfurt am Main as an assistant . In April 1912 he accepted the call to the university gynecological clinic in Königsberg, where he was appointed senior physician in 1918, after having participated in the First World War from 1914, most recently as a medical officer. In 1924/25 Walther Benthin was acting head of the Königsberg University Women's Clinic. He then became the head doctor of the department for gynecological diseases and obstetrics at the municipal hospital in Königsberg i. Pr.

In 1913 he completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg and was later an associate professor at this university.

He lived in Königsberg, Wallenrodstraße 22. After he had to leave this city towards the end of the Second World War, he lived in Rheydt in the Rhineland, where he died in 1950 shortly before his 68th birthday.

Fonts (selection)

  • Indication for inflammatory genital diseases and peritonitis . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1926.
  • Indications for the surgical treatment of gynecological diseases . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1927.
  • Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of women's diseases . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1930.
  • Georg Winter . For my 80th birthday . Munich 1936.
  • Therapy of Fraunhofer medicine . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1947.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias David, Andreas D. Ebert: Famous gynecologists in Berlin , Volume 2, p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Benthin, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Koeritz
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1950
Place of death Rheydt