William of Gaza
Wilhelm von Gaza , actually: Wilhelm Philipp Emanuel von Gazen called Gaza (born February 3, 1883 in Koserow , † April 24, 1936 in Rostock ) was a German surgeon and university professor . In addition to general surgery and vascular surgery, the main focus of his work was wound care and wound healing as well as surgery on blood vessels . According to him, in 1924 the "Gazasche operation", a precursor was sympathetic trunk - resection named.
Life
Wilhelm von Gaza - son of the pastor and later superintendent Bernhard von Gaza and his wife Wilhelmine geb. Holz - attended the Greifswald grammar school , where he graduated from high school in 1902. He then did his military service as a one-year volunteer . He studied medicine at the University of Greifswald from 1903 to 1907 . In 1906 he passed the exam as a gymnastics teacher. After his medical state examination in June 1907, he received his license to practice medicine . He then worked until 1908 as an assistant at the Pathological-Anatomical and Bacteriological Institute at the University of Greifswald, where he also received his doctorate .
From July 1908 he worked as an assistant to Friedrich Trendelenburg at the surgical clinic of the University of Leipzig , last in 1911 as senior physician . He then went to the Leipzig University Women's Clinic as a volunteer assistant until 1912. In October 1912 he settled in Leipzig as a specialist in surgery and gynecology.
During the First World War he volunteered and served from August 1914 to December 1918 as a medical officer and surgeon in field hospitals and medical companies. He then went to Göttingen to see the surgeon Rudolf Stich (1875–1960), with whom von Gaza completed his habilitation in 1919 . In August 1923 he became associate professor and from November of the same year first senior physician at the University Surgical Clinic in Göttingen. He was also secretary of the Göttingen Medical Society and was a member of the University Office for Physical Education.
In April 1928 he followed a call to the chair for surgery at the University of Rostock , where he also became director of the surgical clinic and polyclinic. In 1931 he headed the 42nd meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . 1932/1933 he was dean of the medical faculty. At the clinic he directed, forced sterilizations were carried out after the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring was passed in 1933 .
In July 1933 he became a member of the Flieger-SA and received the pilot's license as an aerobatic pilot in the same year . He was also a sub-group doctor of the SA-Fliegerlandesgruppe Nordmark. In 1933 he became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association .
Health problems caused by a serious motorcycle accident in March 1927, including epileptic seizures , affected his work from 1929 onwards. He was also deprived of his driver's license. During lectures and operations he was observed to be clearly defective, so that there were concerns about the continuation of his work. A complaint for the negligent killing of the daughter of the country farmer's leader Karl Seemann , who had operated in Gaza in March 1934 and died , was suppressed. After he had caused a car accident in an epileptic fit in August 1934, according to a report by leading medical doctors in Mecklenburg he was no longer allowed to drive a vehicle and only operate under supervision. A retirement suggested by the Mecklenburg State Ministry at the beginning of 1936 did not materialize , among other things after the assessment made by Ferdinand Sauerbruch . In 1936 he was run over by an omnibus and died on the same day.
publication
- Outline of wound care and wound treatment as well as the treatment of closed foci of infection. Berlin 1921.
literature
- Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon . [= Texts and materials on contemporary history; Vol. 16]. Walter de Gruyter, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 . Pp. 150–151 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Wilhelm Katner: Gaza, Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 110 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature on Wilhelm von Gaza in the state bibliography MV
- Overview of the courses held by Wilhelm von Gaza at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1911)
- Entry on Wilhelm von Gazen in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Killian : Master of surgery . 2nd edition, Thieme, Stuttgart 1980, p. 150
Gustav Simon (1861–1867) | Carl Hueter (1868–1870) | Franz König (1869–1875) | Friedrich Trendelenburg (1875–1882) | Carl Garrè (1894–1901) | Wilhelm Müller (1901–1928 ) | William of Gaza (1928–1936) | Johann Carl Lehmann (1923–1929) | Walter Schmitt (1957–1976) | Richard Reding (1976-1993) | Ulrich Hopt (1994–2001) Ernst Klar (since 2003)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaza, Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gazen called Gaza, Wilhelm Philipp Emanuel von; Gazen, Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koserow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1936 |
| Place of death | Rostock |