Werner Körte (doctor)

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Werner Körte (1901)

Friedrich Emil Werner Körte (born October 21, 1853 in Berlin ; † December 3, 1937 there ) was a German surgeon .

Life

Werner Körte was one of ten children of the doctor Friedrich Körte (1818–1914) and his wife Marie, b. Thaer (1832-1898). His siblings included the archaeologist Gustav Körte (1852-1917), the architect Friedrich Körte (1854-1934), the painter Martin Körte (1857-1929), the Königsberg mayor Siegfried Körte (1861-1919) and the classical philologist Alfred Körte (1866-1946).

After passing his high school diploma during the Franco-Prussian War in September 1870, he registered as a volunteer nurse in a typhus hospital near Metz , which was under the direction of his godfather Rudolf Virchow . He then studied 1871-1874 medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University and the Kaiser-Wilhelm University of Strasbourg . He became a member of the Corps Teutonia Bonn. With a doctoral thesis with Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen , he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . At the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin he was trained as a surgeon by Robert Friedrich Wilms from 1877 to 1879 . While Wilms fell ill, he temporarily ran the hospital until April 1881. He then worked as a general practitioner until he was appointed director of the Am Urban municipal hospital in 1889 . He retired in 1924.

On May 1, 1882, Körte married Luise Auguste Delbrück (1861–1941), a daughter of the banker Adelbert Delbrück .

From 1899 to 1929 he was the honorary secretary of the German Society for Surgery . He became its president and honorary chairman. From 1914 to 1929 he was chairman of the Berlin Surgical Society , of which he was appointed honorary chairman.

He was buried in the family grave in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

tomb
  • On surgery of the biliary tract and liver . In: Collection of clinical lectures NF 40, 1892, pp. 243–274.
  • Contribution to the surgical treatment of pancreatic inflammation, along with experiments on adipose tissue necrosis . Berlin 1896.
  • Rudolf Virchow's accident and illness. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift. 1902.
  • Contributions to surgery of the biliary tract and liver . 1905.
  • Injuries and surgical diseases of the liver, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen . Leipzig 1922.
  • Surgery of the abdomen . In: Handbook of Practical Surgery , ed. by K. Garré, H. Küttner, E. Lexer, 5th edition, Vol. III, 1, 1923.
  • Surgery of the peritoneum . Stuttgart 1927.
  • Memories from the world wars 1914 to 1918 . Compiled for the family and printed as a manuscript. Springer, Berlin 1929.

literature

  • Hinrich Wilckens: Friedrich and Werner Körte. Life and work of two Berlin doctors . Dissertation FU Berlin 1966 (pp. 110–129 List of publications by Werner Körte).
  • Otto Winkelmann:  Körte, Werner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 395 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jürgen Lange: Werner Körte, a great surgeon of his time . Berliner Ärzteblatt (Rotes Blatt) 116 (2003), pp. 323-324 ( digitized version , with photo).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 17/279.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the theory of round gastric ulcer .
  3. ^ Honorary chairmen and honorary members of the BCG .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Steguweit: The »Eagle Shield of the German Empire«. In: Berlin monthly journal. Issue 6. Edition Luisenstadt, 2000, pp. 182–187.
  5. ↑ Honors from the German Society for Surgeons; accessed on May 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Körte, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körte, Friedrich Emil Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1937
Place of death Berlin