Wilhelm Wagner (medic, 1848)

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Wilhelm Wagner (born January 14, 1848 in Wohnbach , Wetterau ; † August 6, 1900 in Königshütte , Upper Silesia ) was a German doctor. He is considered a pioneer in brain surgery.

Life

Wilhelm Wagner studied medicine at the Hessian Ludwig University from 1865 . In 1866 he became active in the Corps Starkenburgia . As an inactive , he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg , which made him Dr. med. PhD. He began his medical career as a spa doctor in Bad Nauheim . He took part in the Franco-German War in a reserve hospital in Friedberg (Hesse) . In Friedberg he then worked as a general practitioner until 1877 . He then moved to the miners' hospital in the industrial town of Königshütte (Upper Silesia), which had recently been officially founded, as senior doctor and head of administration . He later became chief physician in the local hospital.

Clinically, he worked in the surgical and neurosurgical fields. As a young doctor he was accepted into the German Society for Surgery . Its founder was Wagner's corps brother Richard von Volkmann . The hospital in Neu-Heiduk near Königshütte, run by Wagner, was considered exemplary in terms of therapy and patient care. Wagner is considered to be one of the pioneers in neurosurgery . In 1889, he introduced a new surgical method, the Wagnerian operation, in the craniotomy , in which an osteoplastic cranial flap formed from bone and fascia , also called Wagner's flap, could be re-applied after the operation.

In his spare time Wagner worked as a botanist . He built up a well-stocked herbarium and constantly added to it. In this context he was in corresponding contact with many botanical centers around the world. Some of his collection items from Silesia, the Upper Hungarian Tatras and Switzerland are now in the collection of the herbarium of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , but also distributed in several European cities, e.g. B. in France. In the Index of Botanist of Harvard University Herbaria he is listed under the ASA Botanist ID 100073 botanist .

Honors

Wilhelm Wagner's grave in Chorzów (2018)
  • Go Medical Council (1894)
  • Honorary Professor (1894)
  • Monument in the town center of Königshütte (1908), bronze plate with Wagner's relief and the inscription ALIIS INSERVIENDO CONSUMOR

Fonts

  • Transplantation of fresh pedicled flaps from the thorax to soft tissue defects of the upper arm and forearm , 1885.
  • The treatment of complex skull fractures , 1886.
  • The temporary resection of the skull in place of trepanation , 1889.
  • Two cases of temporary skull resection. Zentralblatt für Chirurgie 18 (1891), p. 13
  • Preparation of partially extirpated, lobed liver , 1890.
  • On calcified retrosternal stroma , 1894.
  • Extirpation of the sarcomatous wandering spleen - healing , 1894.
  • Two cases of hematoma of the dura mater healed by temporary skull resection. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift. Volume 32, 1895, pp. 137-140.
  • with Paul Stolper : The injuries of the spine and spinal cord , 1898.

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 1801. ( Permalink )
  • Michael Buchfelder, Bengt Ljunggren: Wilhelm Wagner (1848–1900). , Part 1: A forgotten pioneer. Surg. Neurol. 30: 423-427 (1988); Part 2: The osteoplastic flaps. ibid pp. 428-433.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 37/351.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: On the percussion of the stomach after expansion with carbonic acid .
  3. ^ Wagner, Wilhelm; Herbarium GOET-Index Collectorum-W
  4. ^ Wagner, Wilhelm in the Index of Botanist at Harvard University Herbaria
  5. ↑ Postcard of the monument
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Wilhelm Philipp Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and botanist in Hesse and Silesia
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Wohnbach , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1900
Place of death Königshütte , Upper Silesia