Heinrich Fritsch
Heinrich Fritsch ( born December 5, 1844 in Halle an der Saale, † May 12, 1915 in Hamburg ) was a German gynecologist and university teachers.
Life
Fritsch was the son of the lawyer Gustav Fritsch and his wife Wilhelmine nee Hartmann. After graduating from high school in 1865 in Halle, he studied at the Eberhard -Karls- University of Tübingen, the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg and the Friedrich - University of Halle. He was a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen (1865) and Guestphalia Hall (1866 ). In 1869 he received a doctorate in med. Afterwards, he was a research assistant at the Obstetric Clinic in his hometown. In 1873 he qualified as a professor in gynecology.
In 1874 he married Elizabeth Hall in Goedecke. With her he had three daughters, of whom later in July the internist Ludolph Brauer and Anna married the gynecologist Walter Stoeckel, and three sons, Karl ( * 1880), Bernard (* 1882) and Hans (* 1889). The later zoologist Rudolf Fritsch is one of his grandsons.
Breslau and Bonn
1877 A.O. Professor appointed, Fritsch took over the management of the University Hospital in Wroclaw as such in 1882. In parallel, he was appointed the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University as full professor. For the academic year 1887/88 he was elected rector. In his rectorial address on 15 October 1887, he dealt with the position of doctors in bourgeois society.
In 1883 he followed the call of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. After 27 years, he became professor emeritus in 1910. His successor was appointed Otto von Franqué. From 1891 to 1893 Fritsch was the fifth President of the German Society of Gynecology. After his retirement he lived in Hamburg, where he died at about 70 years and found his final resting place.
Importance
Fritsch is considered the founder of modern gynecology. As a highly respected surgeon, physician and clinical instructor he trained a whole generation of significant zoom gynecologist. Zentralblatt für gynecology he founded in 1877 together with Hermann Fehling. He received worldwide recognition through his translated into several languages monographs. His work The diseases of women has been revised by Walter Stoeckel and Karl Reifferscheid and published in 1924 in the 13th edition under the title textbook of gynecology.
Honors
During his lifetime he was honored by the University of Bonn by a fountain monument. The Heinrich Fritsch -Strasse in Bonn was also named in his honor.
Works
- Clinic everyday obstetric operations, 1875, 5th edition 1894.
- The diseases of women, 1881, 12th edition 1910.
- Broad pathology and treatment of puerperium. In 1884.
- Court Medical obstetrics. In 1901.
- Abortion, in: Isidor Fischer: Handbook of forensic medical expert activities. 1962, pp. 454