Wilhelm Brünings

Karl Leo Wilhelm Brünings (born January 31, 1876 in Kuhstedt near Bremervörde , Hanover Province ; † October 3, 1958 in Munich ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor.

Life

Wilhelm Brünings studied at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . From 1897 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen . In 1899 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1907 the doctorate to Dr. med. He qualified as a professor at the University of Zurich for physiology, at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg for laryngology and in 1909 at the University of Jena also for otology . Even before the First World War , he worked as a technically skilled assistant with Gustav Killian in Freiburg on the construction of bronchoscopes and laryngoscopes.

Wilhelm Brüning's grave, Frauenchiemsee cemetery

Greifswald

In 1917 Brünings became full professor for ear, nose and throat medicine at the University of Greifswald , where he stayed until 1926. In his free time he made excellent furniture , after which he was made an honorary member of the Greifswald Carpenters' Guild .

Jena

After Karl Wittmaack (1876–1972) was appointed to the New General Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg , Brünings followed him in 1926 at the University of Jena . As before in Greifswald, he mainly worked on endoscopy of the airways and food passages and improved the instruments considerably. Endoscopy courses were held for the first time under his direction. Brünings developed the “lamprey” with the Carl Zeiss company in Jena, with which up to eight observers could take part in an endoscopy. In 1928 the new clinic planned by Wittmaack and then modified in detail by Brünings was completed and inaugurated. With 120 beds, it was one of the most beautiful ENT clinics in Germany at the time. In 1928 Brünings was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Munich

In 1930, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich appointed Brünings to the chair for ENT medicine. In 1933 he was dean of the medical faculty. In 1950 he retired . He then worked in a private clinic in Solln . His grave is on Frauenchiemsee .

research

His life's work focused on the further development of endoscopic technology, vestibular research and the correction of hearing defects.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit (1956)

Works

• Textbook on diseases of the ear and airways including oral diseases , 7 editions. Jena 1921

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1457 .

Web links

• Literature about Wilhelm Brünings in the state bibliography MV
• ENT Jena
• ENT history
• A. Greifenstein: Wilhelm Brünings on the 60th birthday. Archive for Ear, Nose and Larynx Medicine (1936), Volume 141, Issue 1, pp. 1–4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 128/550
2. ↑ Philosophical dissertation: On the physiology of the fish cycle .
3. ↑ Medical dissertation: On the technique of bronchoscopy .
4. ^ Physiological habilitation thesis: Contributions to electrophysiology. III. Message. About the quiescent current of the frog muscle. II .
5. ↑ Hans Killian : There is only God behind us. Sub umbra dei. A surgeon remembers. Kindler, Munich 1957; Paperback edition: Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1967; 10th edition 1975, ISBN 3-451-01779-2 , p. 16 f.
6. ^ Fritz Moser: History of the subject and the clinic and polyclinic for ear, nose and throat diseases. In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald. Volume 2. Greifswald 1956, pp. 427-428.