Heinrich Braun
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun ( born January 1, 1862 in Ravich, Posen Province, † April 26, 1934 in Lingen ) was a German surgeon.
Life and work
He attended the school and the Vitzhumsche Cross High School in Dresden, where he graduated from high school in 1881 took off. Brown studied medicine in Strasbourg, Greifswald and Leipzig, closed on December 22, 1887 his studies with the state exam and was awarded his doctorate for Dr. med on December 30, 1887. From 1888 to 1891 he held a nearly three-year Research Associate position at the Halle University Surgical Clinic. In 1891 he opened a small private clinic in Leipzig and took over in 1894 in addition a second. In the same year he completed his habilitation in 1899 was appointed chief medical officer of the newly Leipzig Deaconess Hospital and was appointed in 1905 as Professor of Surgery at the University of Leipzig. In 1906 he joined as Medical Director at the Royal Hospital pen in Zwickau. He should have 22 years to its action.
Brown led a number of innovations in surgery and anesthesia. Among them were the open wound treatment, the invention of the " Braun rail " for leg support, the invention of anesthesia device for metering the former anesthetic ether and chloroform, and the introduction of the developed by Alfred Einhorn procaine with the addition of epinephrine. At Braun local anesthetics - research his student Arthur Laewen was involved. Brown turned to also Procainlösungen in the neuraxial anesthesia, he had developed together with the Leipzig pharmacologists Oskar Gross ( 1877-1947 ). From 1912 he carried out together with the Hamburg surgeon cumin and the Berlin surgeon beer the idea of a surgical teaching, which appeared in 1913 and was to remain the standard work in this field for decades.
Brown realized on the outskirts of the industrial city of Zwickau, the idea of a " hospital in the country". 1913 was the start of construction, after interruption by the First World War was on December 1, 1921, the Department of Surgery are dedicated others followed in the next few years. The " Zwickau pavilion style " of the then state of the art hospital was a model for a number of other hospital buildings in Germany and beyond. Heinrich Braun saw the expedient construction as his life's work.
From Chemnitz doctor Gustav Boeters Brown was persuaded in 1921 to make eugenic sterilizations indexed in his hospital. The sterilization of first three boys and a girl were illegal under the law existing at the time and should also serve to bring about a corresponding statutory provision.
Heinrich Braun ran from 1908 to 1927, the Medical Society of Zwickau and was appointed in 1926 as an honorary citizen of the city of Zwickau. On March 30, 1928, he retired from active service.