Werner Hagedorn (medical doctor)
Werner August Hagedorn (born July 2, 1831 in Westhausen near Heiligenstadt , † June 19, 1894 in Magdeburg ) was a German surgeon .
Life
Hagedorn was born the son of a village school teacher. After attending grammar school in Heiligenstadt, he studied medicine in Berlin from 1850 to 1854 .
In 1855 he became an assistant doctor - initially internist - in the Magdeburg-Altstadt hospital. He then moved to his surgical clinic, which he headed from 1863 to 1893 after initially working under Karl Fock . As a contemporary of Lister he introduced antiseptics in Magdeburg in 1872 , which was established in Halle as well as throughout Germany and Europe in the same year by Richard von Volkmann as the protagonist of this method of wound treatment with phenol. After tough negotiations with the Magdeburg magistrate , the old town operating theater was one of the first on the continent to be designed according to Lister's ideas. This enabled operations that were previously barely possible or even fatal.
Hagedorn gained special experience in plastic surgery of the cleft lip and palate and joint operations. The Hagedorn needle holder and the tracheostomy tubes were designed by him.
Hagedorn needle holder
( Aesculap AG )
Honor
A street near the Magdeburg University Hospital bears his name ( Hagedornstraße ).
literature
- Peter Heinrich : Hagedorn, Werner August, Dr. med. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , ( article online ).
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| SURNAME | Hagedorn, Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hagedorn, Werner August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1894 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |