Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann
Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann ( born October 7, 1815 in Gadebusch, † February 24, 1890 in Berlin) was a physician and professor of gynecology and obstetrics in Kiel.
Career
Carl Litzmann joined his medical studies in Berlin more to his father's request, because of their own interest. Peter Krukenberg, a leading clinician of his time, it was able to provide students Litzmann final for the medical profession to attract and reset the own serious poetic future plans. An obstetric Privatissimum at D' Outrepont has given direction for his career.
In 1840, he habilitated with a written in Latin script " De arteritide ". Interest far beyond his area of expertise he held in the following years in Hall lectures on physiology and pathology of the nervous system, forensic medicine, physiology of the woman, Theory of obstetrics and obstetric auscultation and semiotics. He also taught medical anthropology for non-medical people with case demonstrations.
In 1844, he was succeeded by his marriage a vocation to Greifswald as associate professor of theoretical medicine, two years later he became dean. From this time the work on specifically " physiology of pregnancy and the female organism is " noteworthy. He occupied it, and, inter alia, the periodicity of menstruation and the reflexive nature and function of the uterine bleeding from the growth of follicles in the ovary. Despite extensive scientific studies, the work under her Ordinariate satisfy him only a little. So he took the by his friend Johann Wilhelm Julius Planck, the father of Max Planck, switched call to Kiel in 1849. The following year came his daughter Anna Behrens to the world that was active as a writer later.
Work at the Kiel Gebäranstalt
After participating in the independence movement, the Kiel University stood by the Danish authorities in a bad reputation. For the Gebäranstalt with its then untenable hygienic conditions lacked almost any form of financial assistance. After the Puerperalfieberkatastrophen the existence of the institution was seriously threatened. Despite this difficult initial situation Litzmann reached after five years of struggle for plans, cost estimates and funding the construction of the Kiel Gebäranstalt. His successor, Richard Werth later wrote: "He who has not read this correspondence ... has no idea of the fire and the boldness with which this, to outward seeming so quiet, peace-loving, any violent excitement averse man for him lying at the heart of matter can occur. ".
Litzmann was fascinated by the Michaelis Beck 's research and saw it as a mandatory legacy. He published further works such as " The shapes of the pelvis ... Personal observations and investigations together with an annex to osteomalacia ". The rear Asynklitismus is still in obstetrics under the term " Litzmannsche obliquity " familiar. To the memory of Gustav Adolf Michaelis (1798-1848) dedicated his 1884 Litzmann summarizing monograph " The Birth at narrow pelvis according to own observations and investigations ". In a very crucial point he did not follow Michaelis for the time being: in the adoption and application of Semmelweis 's doctrine on the puerperal fever. Until 1874 Litzmann finally realized after repeated epidemics with deaths causality. One of his interns who had just made a section, then examined the maternity department. Prompt fell ill and passed away this. Psychologically structured differently Michaelis did not break Litzmann feelings of guilt, but turned his creative energy to the surgical gynecology. Since the introduction of ether and chloroform anesthesia 1847, this completely new possibilities were opened.
Cultural and literary interests
In Litzmannschen house a lively intellectual exchange took place. An enrichment for there to be taken circle was the patient of the surgeon Esmarch, Clara Schumann. Clara Schumann came because of a Armleidens sometimes to Kiel and enjoyed their domiciled here with friends at house concerts Litzmanns.
1885 Litzmann moved back to Berlin in order to devote himself increasingly to his literary inclinations. He was a friend of Emanuel Geibel and admirer of Friedrich Hölderlin. Work on Hölderlin brought him even an honorary doctorate title.
Works
- The shapes of the pelvis in particular the tight female pelvis. Reimer, Berlin, 1861.