Wilhelm Müller (medic, 1855)

Wilhelm Muller

Wilhelm Müller (born June 22, 1855 at the Hacienda del Mirador near Huatusco , State of Veracruz , Mexico ; † June 28, 1937 in Weimar ) was a German surgeon and university professor in Aachen and Rostock.

Life

Müller's parents were the doctor Wilhelm Müller (1824-1870) and his wife Pauline Bernhardine de la Luz Sartorius (1835-1900), a daughter of Christian Sartorius .

Müller attended the Philippinum Weilburg grammar school . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine from 1873 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Universität Leipzig , the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . Probably in half he served in 1875/76 and 1879/80 (after the state examination) as a one-year volunteer . In 1879 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He laid the foundations of medical training from 1878 to 1880 in pathology and internal medicine in Göttingen. In 1881 he went into surgery, where he qualified as a professor in 1884 . As a private lecturer at the University of Göttingen, he took over the management of a private clinic in Aachen during the three-year-year . In 1889 he also became the head physician in the surgical department of the Luisen Hospital in Aachen . From 1900 he was appointed titular professor there.

In 1901 he followed the call of the University of Rostock to its chair for surgery. In 1905/06 and 1913/14 he was dean of the medical faculty, and in 1913/14 he was also co-director of the Rostock University Hospital . In 1909 he was one of the founders of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . In 1910, 1912, 1920 and 1924 he chaired their 5th, 11th, 19th and 28th conferences. In the meantime he was elected President of the German Society for Surgery in 1914. Throughout the First World War , he served as a general practitioner and consultant surgeon . Anton von Eiselsberg visited him on the Eastern Front . After 27 years of service, he retired in 1928 .

Müller married Agnes, born in 1888. von Estorff (1860–1942), the only daughter of Georg Otto Carl von Estorff . The daughter Hedwig married the surgeon Egbert Schwarz .

Honors

Secret Medical Council (1913)
Honorary member of the German Society for Surgery (1926)

literature

Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 234-235.

Web links

Entry on Wilhelm Müller in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

↑ Dissertation: Experimental studies on the behavior of the lymph glands during the resorption of bruises .
^ Habilitation thesis: Acute osteomyelitis of the joint areas .
↑ Wolfgang Teichmann , Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009, p. 51
↑ Anton Freiherr von Eiselsberg: Life Path of a Surgeon (1939, reprint 2010)
^ Entry on Wilhelm Müller in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1900, p. 294

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Müller, Karl Friedrich Paul Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German surgeon, university professor in Aachen and Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mirador, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 1937
Place of death	Weimar

[1] Dissertation: Experimental studies on the behavior of the lymph glands during the resorption of bruises .

[2] Habilitation thesis: Acute osteomyelitis of the joint areas .

[3] Wolfgang Teichmann , Christoph Eggers , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder (eds.): 100 Years Association of Northwest German Surgeons . Hamburg 2009, p. 51

[4] Anton Freiherr von Eiselsberg: Life Path of a Surgeon (1939, reprint 2010)

[5] Entry on Wilhelm Müller in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

[6] Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1900, p. 294