Wilhelm Lange (medic, 1875)

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Wilhelm Lange (born October 21, 1875 in Dresden , † January 12, 1954 in Leipzig ) was a German ear, nose and throat doctor .

Life

Lange was born in Dresden into a family of craftsmen. He began his medical studies at the University of Leipzig in 1894 and completed it there with the state examination. At the beginning of his studies he joined the Fridericiana student association (today: Leipziger Turnerschaft Fridericiana in the Coburg Convent in Mannheim / Heidelberg), which became an academic gymnastics club during his lifelong membership .

After completing his studies, Lange moved to the pathological - anatomical institute of the city ​​hospital in Dresden-Friedrichstadt , where he worked under the direction of Georg Schmorl .

In 1902 he completed specialist training with Carl Adolf Passow in Heidelberg, and when Passow received a call to the Charité Ear Clinic in Berlin in 1902 , he and his teacher moved to the capital of the Reich. There he continued researching diseases of the temporal bone . He published his histopathological investigations and results on otosclerosis and cholesteatoma .

After about six years he received a call as a non-scheduled adjunct professor for otology at the medical faculty of the University of Greifswald . He worked here until 1913. Appointments to chairs at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn followed . As the successor to Kurd Bürckner (1853-1913), from the winter semester 1913/1914 to 1919, he taught as a scheduled adjunct professor for otology and then from 1919 to 1922 as a full professor at the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen, Lange was aiming for an inpatient ENT department. Since this development was delayed, he made an agreement with the Protestant monastery Neu-Bethlehem in Göttingen. A nine-bed ward was set up under the top floor of the hospital.

From 1922 to 1924 he taught as a full professor for ear medicine at the University of Bonn . In addition to ear, nose and throat medicine , his special scientific interests were the special pathological anatomy and histology of ENT diseases.

From 1924 he was full professor for ear, nose and throat diseases at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. He held more than 27 years to 76 years with this office emeritus was. Long was a member of the NSDAP ; after 1945 he applied for membership in the Eastern CDU . His university successor was Woldemar Tonndorf (1887–1957) in 1951 .

In 1940 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts (selection)

  • Two cases of osteomalacia. Gustav Fock bookstore, Leipzig 1899.
  • with Paul Manasse and Karl Grünberg : Handbook of the pathological anatomy of the human ear . JF Bergmann, 1917.

literature

  • Tilman Brusis: History of the German Ear, Nose and Throat Clinics in the 20th Century. German Society for ENT Medicine, Head and Neck Surgery. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-540-41704-4 .
  • K. Fleischer: Memorial words for Wilhelm Lange (1875 to 1954). In: Journal of the Karl Marx University. Leipzig 1960.
  • Theodor Hölcke: 100 years. The Leipzig Gymnastics Association Fridericiana in the Coburg Convent (CC) in Mannheim / Heidelberg 1882-1982. Festschrift for the celebration of the 100th foundation festival from June 17 to 20, 1982 in Mannheim , ed. v. Fridericiana AHV , self-published, Mannheim 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig University Hospital, Clinic and Polyclinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine. History, online
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. med. Wilhelm Lange, dates of life
  3. ↑ Hölcke: 100 years of Turnerschaft Fridericiana , p. 164.
  4. ↑ Volker Zimmermann: "Bringing a Medicinische Facultät in Flor": on the history of the medical faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940344-98-4 , p. 69.
  5. ^ Hermann Frenzel: The ear, nose and throat clinic of the University of Göttingen. A brief description of its structural development from 1878–1963. Göttingen 1964, p. 7.
  6. ↑ Uwe Hossfeld, Tobias Kaiser, Heinz Mestrup: University in Socialism: Studies on the History of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1945–1990). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 , p. 798, footnote 20.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ear, nose and throat specialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1954
Place of death Leipzig