Viktor Bross
Wiktor Bross (born August 9, 1903 in Witkowo , † January 19, 1994 in Katowice , Upper Silesia ) was a Polish surgeon. As a professor in Breslau, he was a pioneer in thoracic and cardiac surgery.
Life
As the son of Konstanty Bross , teacher in Trzemeszno , and his wife Helena geb. Wiktor Bross attended grammar school in Gnesen in prison . After graduating from high school, he studied preclinical studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (1922–1924). After completing his physics course, he moved to the Jan Kazimierz University in Lemberg. In 1928 he was approved and obtained his doctorate in Lemberg .
After a two-year internship at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Katowice, he returned to Lviv in 1930 . He began training in surgery at the Lviv General Hospital. After three years he switched to Tadeusz Ostrowski as an assistant . An annual scholarship enabled him to stay at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London . In 1935 he was on a scholarship for further training in thoracic surgery with Ferdinand Sauerbruch at the Charité . At the same time he carried out experimental investigations on pneumectomy with Wilhelm Trendelenburg . He learned thoracoplasty and access to the apex of the lung (for tuberculosis and carcinoma) from Carl Semb in Oslo . On September 8, 1935, he and Ostrowski succeeded in the first (lower) lobectomy for local bronchiectasis , in 1936 the first pneumectomy for tumors. Habilitated in 1938 , he was appointed director of the surgery department.
During the Second World War he initially stayed in Lviv. Fearing attacks by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish professors, he left Lviv in 1943. After the war he first worked in Katowice. Appointed to her chair for surgery by the University of Breslau , he continued to live in Katowice until the end of his life; but he only went home on weekends. The second assistant service set up for this purpose was very popular because there was much more time for discussions on the trips than in the clinic. In 1958, Bross operated on an open heart for the first time in heart surgery in Poland. He supervised 33 habilitations. 22 students became professors of surgery.
family
Wiktor Bross had four brothers. Kazimierz was a doctor and fell during the German invasion . Marian fell victim to the Katyn massacre . Stefan , also a doctor, survived the Stutthof concentration camp , but died weakly shortly after his release. Stanislaw , theologian and Dr. phil., survived the Dachau concentration camp .
Honors
- Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1966)
- Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Wroclaw
- Honorary doctorate from the Medical University of Wroclaw
- Honorary doctorate from the Silesian Medical University Katowice
literature
- Andrzej Śródka: Polish Scientists of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Volume V. Warsaw 2002.
- Marek Pelczar: Wiktor Bross . Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 3 (2006), pp. 110-112.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiktor Bross - pioneer torakochirurgii i twórca wrocławskiej kardiochirurgii
- ↑ Wiktor Bross's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 31, 2016.
General surgery: Traugott Wilhelm Gustav Benedict (1814–1856) | Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf (1856–1868) | Hermann Fischer (1869–1890) | Johann von Mikulicz (1890–1905) | Carl Garrè (1905–1907) | Hermann Küttner (1907–1932) | Karl Heinrich Bauer (1932–1943) | Hans Killian (1943–1945) | Wiktor Bross | Stefan Koczorowski | Bogdan Łazarkiewicz
Cardiac surgery: Wiktor Bross (1946–1973) | Anatol Kustrzycki (1973–1987) | Tadeusz Bross (1987-1997) | Roman Krupacz (1997-2001) | Wojciech Kustrzycki
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bross, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish surgeon and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witkowo |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1994 |
| Place of death | Katowice |