Erich Lexer

Erich Lexer ( May 22nd 1867 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † December 4, 1937 in Solln ) was a German surgeon and university lecturer. With Jacques Joseph he is considered the founder of Plastic Surgery.

Career

Lexer Matthias Lexer was the son of German studies and attended the Old Grammar School of Würzburg. After graduation in 1885, he studied until 1890 medicine at the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg. After graduation, he spent two years assistant to the anatomist Friedrich Merkel at the Georg- August-Universität Göttingen. From 1892 to 1905 he was assistant physician at Ernst von Bergmann at the Second Surgical Clinic of the Charité in Berlin, where he received his habilitation. In 1905 he was appointed the Albertus University of Königsberg to the chair of surgery. In 1910 he moved to the University of Jena. In 1914, he joined as chief medical officer in the Imperial Navy. In World War I he was a consulting physician of the Navy in Hamburg, Bruges and Ostend. Most recently, he was General senior physician.

In 1919 he went as professor and clinic director at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. There Rudolf Theis Eden was his deputy. In 1928 he followed the fourth chair at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University. Emeritus at the age of 69 years, he was chief of surgery in 1936 Schwabing Hospital. In a phone booth, he died on a heart attack a year.

1923 and 1936 he was president of the German Society for Surgery. Lexer was one of the commentators of the Nazi sterilization law and wrote the essay " The procedures for sterilization of the man and the emasculation ".

Services

Lexer reported in 1906 for the first time about his method of face lift. Since then, refinements and improvements of this technique have been continuously developed. The incision was s- shaped and were within the hairline along the temple. This section shows a high degree of similarity with the incision of the present-day standard facelifts.

In Freiburg Lexer developed his learned in Jena and especially in Königsberg methods and techniques of plastic and reconstructive surgery on. In particular, he devoted himself to the reconstruction of the nose, ear, mouth, jaws, Mum sculptures and their modifications, as well as the facial prostheses and cleft palate surgeries.

Also due to lexical analyzer, the modified current surgical methods for the treatment of Mammahyperplasie. On the principle of become known as the Lexer- Kraske operation in 1922 based many current techniques. The vertical reduction mammaplasty with good results, which spares for a technique of Lejour the patient the section and thus the subsequent scar in the inframammary fold is based on the basic principle Lexerschen.

Honors

  • Honorary Member of the German Society of Surgery (1936 )
  • Member of the Leopoldina (1936 )
  • Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1937 )
  • Erich -Lexer- prize, donated in 1972 by Ethicon
  • Erich -Lexer- Clinic for Plastic Surgery at the University Hospital Freiburg (2006)

Publications

  • History and Construction of the Surgical University Clinic Jena. Leipzig 1919
  • Handbook of practical surgery, 1931
  • The entire Reconstructive Surgery, 2 vols Leipzig 1931
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