Friedrich Gustav von Bramann

Gustav Friedrich (Fritz) of Bramann ( born September 25, 1854 in Szameitschen, parish Wilhelm Berg, Circle Darkehmen, † April 26, 1913 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German surgeon. Bramann became famous when he with a tracheostomy the German Crown Prince Friedrich III. saved from suffocation.

Life

Bramann was born the son of a landowner. After leaving school at the Friedrich Gumbinnen school he studied medicine from 1875 to the Albertus University of Königsberg. There he became a member of the newly formed Corps Hansea. Among his teachers were Karl Schonborn, Florian Beely and Karl Heinrich Burow. Since 1880 assistant physician at the City Hospital Königsberg, he received his doctorate with Prof. Schneider as Dr. med.

In 1884 he went to the Royal Surgical Clinic of the Charité in Berlin to Ernst von Bergmann. As a one-year volunteer he served in the Infantry Regiment " Duke Charles of Mecklenburg -Strelitz " ( 6 Ostpreußisches ) No 43 and the Cuirassier Regiment "Graf Wrangel " ( East Prussian ) No 3

In v. Bergmann's proposal sent Kaiser Wilhelm I. Bramann in November 1887 at the sickbed of the 56 -year-old Crown Prince Frederick in Sanremo. At his throat cancer, he should perform a tracheotomy in case of life-threatening dyspnea when Bergmann not einträfe time. With the tracheostomy in February 1888 Bramann allowed the Crown Prince to the throne.

After eight months of unemployment in Sanremo returned to Berlin, Bramann habilitated still in the Three Emperors year. On the advice of his boss, he rejected the reputation of the University of Greifswald in 1889 as scheduled Associate Professor and Director of the Surgical Polyclinic from. Instead, he stayed another six years as a private assistant to von Bergmann.

In March 1890 he was appointed the University of Halle to the chair of surgery and was director of the Surgical University Clinic. Bramann operated many German princes and Turkish dignitaries. For its medical merits him Emperor Wilhelm II granted on January 2, 1891 on the occasion of his marriage to the hereditary nobility. Bramanns grave is on the Halle Stadtgottesacker ( infield I).

Medals and honors

  • Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern (14 February 1888)
  • Mecidiye Medal 3rd class (1889 )
  • Princely Waldeck ` cal Merit Cross 2nd class
  • Landwehr Long Service Medal 1st class
  • Ennoblement (2 January 1891)
  • Grand Cross of the Cross of Honor of Schwarzburg (4 July 1900)
  • Secret Medical Officer (3 November 1903)
  • Member of the Learned Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1909 )
  • Prussian Order of the Crown 2nd class (22 January 1911)
  • Renaming of his birthplace in Bramannsdorf (1938 )

Works

  • About extirpation of brain tumors. Archives of Clinical Surgery 45 (1893 ), pp. 365-400.
  • Further experience above the bars cast with brain disorders. Archives of Clinical Surgery 96 (1911 ), pp. 195-204
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