Adolf Gusserow

Adolf Ludwig Sigismund Gusserow ( born July 8, 1836 in Berlin, † February 8, 1906 ) was a German gynecologist.

Life

Gusserow studied medicine at the Universities of Berlin, Würzburg and Prague. In 1859 he received his doctorate, the habilitation was in 1864 at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. He became a lecturer then.

Gusserow was from 1866 professor at the University of Utrecht, but switched in 1867 to the University of Zurich, where he served 1870/71 as rector. In 1872 he became a professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1878 and professor of obstetrics at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. In 1880 he married Clara Oppenheim ( 1861-1944 ), a daughter of the jurist Otto Georg Oppenheim, granddaughter of banker Alexander Mendelssohn and great- granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and businessman.

1870 described Gusserow first the rarer type of cervical cancer, adenocarcinoma ( malignant adenoma ). He published the findings in his work About sarcomas of the uterus.

In 1882 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Together with Christian Gerhard Leopold was Gusserow editor of the journal Archives of Gynecology. Among his pupils Dührssen Alfred (1862-1933) and Paul Zweifel ( 1848-1927 ).

Works

• Obstetrics and gynecology in the UK - A travel report. Engelhardt, Leipzig 1864 in the Google Book Search
• About menstruation and dysmenorrhea. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1874
• The neoplasms of the uterus. Enke, Stuttgart, 1886 (Reprint 2007, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, ISBN 3-8364-1464-3 )