Werner Bickenbach

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Bickenbach's grave in Munich

Werner Bickenbach (born April 14, 1900 in Solingen , † July 15, 1974 in Munich ) was a German university professor for gynecology and obstetrics .

Life

Werner Bickenbach was the son of the architect and building contractor Karl Bickenbach. He studied at the University of Würzburg medicine and in 1919 (with Robert Wanke ) in Corps Nassovia Würzburg recipiert . The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn doctorate him in 1924 to Dr. med. He completed his gynecological training with Otto von Franqué at the Bonn Women's Clinic. He completed his habilitation in gynecology and obstetrics in 1929 and was appointed private lecturer . He then moved, also as a senior physician and private lecturer, to the Georg August University of Göttingen , where he worked under Heinrich Martius and was appointed associate professor in 1935 . In 1944 he was appointed full professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1948 Bickenbach was co-editor of the magazine obstetrics and gynecology . In 1950 he moved to the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he worked until 1954. In the spring of 1954, Bickenbach moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1960 he was made an honorary member of the North German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics . In the same year he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Bickenbach was president of the German Society for Gynecology from 1962 to 1964 and organized its congress in Munich in 1964. He headed the I. University Women's Clinic in Munich until his retirement in 1969. His successor was Josef Zander . Werner Bickenbach died in Munich in 1974 at the age of 74. He is buried in the forest cemetery (Munich) .

Bickenbach promoted the science and practice of gynecology and obstetrics through research, medical practice and directorial measures. In the field of gynecology he devoted himself to the methods of diagnosis and treatment of female genital cancer. For its early cytological detection he set up a special laboratory in Munich, the head of which was appointed to the first cytology chair in the Federal Republic. For the treatment of female genital cancer, he had a new building built for the radiation department and continued the tradition of the world's leading radiation therapy at the 1st Women's Clinic at the University of Munich in the new building. In the area of ​​female fertility and sterility, his work on influencing follicular maturation from 1944 is outstanding. The result is considered an early guide to hormonal contraception. In the field of obstetrics, he drew the attention of doctors and midwives to these facts by introducing the terms “risk pregnancy” and “risk birth”. And even before there was general talk of “perinatal medicine”, he practiced it and, as the first director of a German women's clinic, placed a pediatrician on a permanent position for the clinic's own neonatology. In 1960 he set up a laboratory for clinical chemistry and biochemistry, which was largely independently headed by a doctor for laboratory medicine and biochemist. This promotion of intra-clinical interdisciplinarity marked his ability to look beyond the narrower subject area and beyond the day-to-day business.

Fonts

  • with Heinrich Martius : Textbook of Obstetrics. (2 volumes) Thieme Verlag, 1948
  • Albert Ponsold , Werner Bickenbach Textbook of forensic medicine: including medical law, medical proficiency and insurance medicine. Thieme Verlag, 1950
  • Isidor Alfred Amreich , Ludwig Seitz , Werner Bickenbach, Josef Halban : Obstetrics. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1951
  • Midwife textbook. Thieme Verlag, 1962
  • with Gerd Karl Döring: The sterility of women. A guide to diagnosis and therapy for practice. Thieme Verlag, 1964
  • La sterilità della donna. Manuals di diagnosi e terapia per uso ambulatory. Universo, 1969
  • with Gerd Karl Döring, José María Plá Janini: La esterilidad en la mujer. Guía, diagnóstico y terapéutica. Laboratory, 1967

See also

literature

  • Hanns Dietel , Jürgen Heinrich: The North German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. A documentation on the occasion of the 95th anniversary. NGGG 2004, online (PDF document; 2.9 MB)
  • Hans Ludwig , Walter Jonat : German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics - From Program to Embassy. A short history (1886-2008) of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics reviewing its 57 congresses. 2nd edition 2008. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISBN 3-00-009676-0
  • Gerd Karl Döring: In memory of Werner Bickenbach 1900–1974. Fortschr Med 92 (1974), 1015, PMID 4605743
  • Gerd Karl Döring: Werner Bickenbach 1900–1974. Obstetrics Frauenheilkd. 1974, 34: 896-897, PMID 4613601
  • Josef Zander , F. Zimmer: In memory of Werner Bickenbach Münch Med Wochenschr 116 (1974), 2175–2176, PMID 4216841

Web links

Commons : Werner Bickenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 142/638.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Starvation experiments with intercurring administration of phlorrhicine with comparative chemical and histological organ analysis .
  3. ↑ Werner Bickenbach, Hans-Jürgen Soost (Hrsg.): Reports on the 1st conference of the German Society for Applied Cytology . Munich, 1964. "Ulrich Schenk: In memoriam Hans-Jürgen Soost . TUM Mitteilungen 2-2006, 44 - 45.
  4. ↑ Werner Bickenbach, Elemer Paulikovics: Inhibition of follicle maturation by progesterone in women ; Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie 68 (1944) 153 - 157.
  5. ↑ Werner Bickenbach: About maternal mortality in clinical obstetrics ; Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie; 64 (1940) 20, pp. 818-836.
  6. ↑ Josef Zander : Traces. A scientific biography. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1998, pp. 77–83, ISBN 3-541-17921-X , online (PDF document; 15 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Bickenbach, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 1974
Place of death Munich