Wilhelm Alexander Freund

Wilhelm Alexander Friend (born 26 August 1833 in Krappitz ( Upper Silesia ), † December 24, 1917 in Berlin) was a German gynecologist.

Life

Alexander Wilhelm Freund was born the son of the physician Heinrich friend in a Jewish family. He attended the Royal Catholic High School in Opole and received in 1851 the testimony he maturity. Originally, he wanted to study architecture, but was not included in the Royal Landesbauschule in Berlin because of his background. Therefore, he decided to study at the University of Breslau medicine. After the MD thesis in 1854 he became an assistant at the Breslau University Women's Hospital. He habilitated in 1860, settled in Breslau as a Privatdozent down and opened a practice as a gynecologist. In 1864 he was appointed without Venia Legendi as Adjunct Professor at the age of about 31 years. With a spa stay in Karlovy Vary in August 1876, he met Karl Marx and his daughter Eleanor Marx know and performed with Marx in an exchange of letters. In 1879 he was awarded as the successor to Adolf Gusserow a call to the chair of gynecology at the Kaiser Wilhelm University, founded in 1871 in Strasbourg. After his retirement in 1901, friend settled in Berlin and published in this period, belletristic literature. On December 24, 1917 William Alexander died friend at the age of 84 years in Berlin.

Work

1858 described in a work friend to rib cartilage abnormalities until today named after him Freund's anomaly, a narrowing of the upper chest opening as a result of a congenital shortening of the first rib with calcification of the first costal cartilage. On January 30, 1878 in Breslau friend succeeded the first scientifically sound and reproducible simple total removal of a cancer infected uterus via an abdominal incision. Until 20 years later, Ernst Wertheim developed the radical abdominal hysterectomy. The technique of Freund's operation substantially corresponds to the current in a hysterectomy abdominal incision. 1885 on the initiative of the friend founded German Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Strasbourg, after an earlier initiative by Carl Siegmund Franz Crede was in 1877 failed.

Writings (selection )

  • Contributions to the histology of the rib cartilage in normal and pathological states. In Commission of the A. Gosohorsky'schen Bookstore ( LF mask), Wroclaw 1858 digitized
  • The relationship of certain lung diseases with primary rib cartilage anomalies. Ferdinand Enke, Erlangen 1859 digitized
  • For the pathology and therapy of puerperal uteri inversio outdated and complicated prolapsus uteri. Bial and friend, Wroclaw 1870 digitized
  • A new method of extirpation of the entire uterus. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1875 ( collection of clinical lectures. Gynecology. 41)
  • Remembrance speech at Ludwig Traube, held at the meeting of the medical section of the Silesian Society for patriotic Culture and Science in Breslau on 28 April 1876. Bial & friend, Wroclaw 1876
  • A new method of extirpation of the entire uterus. Collection of clinical lectures. in: Volkmann R ( eds ): Connection with German clinicians. 41 (1878), published by Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 911-924.
  • Looks in Culturleben 's. Publisher of Schletter'schen Bookstore ( E. Franck ), Wroclaw 1879 digitized
  • Edited: Gynecologic clinic. Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg 1885. (Online at Open Library )
  • About hysterica neurasthenia and hysteria of the woman. L. Simion, Berlin 1904 ( Modern medical library 3)
  • WA Freund and L. Mendelsohn: The relationship of the infantilism of the thorax and pelvis. Ferdinand Ebnke, Stuttgart 1908 digitized
  • Life and work. Thoughts and experiences about work in medicine. With 10 illustrations and a portrait of the author. Julius Springer, Berlin 1913
  • Surgery of uterine cancer. In: Barbara Albrecht ( ed.): diagnoses. Physicians memories from the 20th century. 5th Edition The Morning, Berlin 1989, pp. 76-81

A literary inspiration

Freund removal of the uterus in uterine cancer made ​​a suggestion for Theodor Storm's penultimate, 1887 A novella written confession. Friend summarizes the contents in a letter to the gynecologist Richard Frommel as follows: " A young doctor (some sites let me as his teacher recognized ) yields the urging of his cancer-stricken wife for redemption by a lethal morphine dose after, quick reading along behind the new method the total extirpation of the uterus ' of his teacher and gets into hopeless despair. "Storm learned of friend indeed by his nephew, the doctor Glaevecke Ludwig ( 1855-1905 ).

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