Leopold von Schrötter

Leopold Anton Schroetter Dismas of Kristelli ( born February 5, 1837 in Graz, † April 22, 1908 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician and social medicine. He founded the first Laryngologic clinic in the world and the sanatorium Alland.

Life

The son of the eminent Austrian chemist Anton Schroetter of Kristelli attended from 1846 to 1848, the Scots College, from 1848 to 1849 the Piaristengymnasium in Vienna, from 1849 to 1852 the Academic Gymnasium in Graz and in 1852 the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna, where he in 1855 -leaving examination took off. He then studied medicine at the University of Vienna. After graduating in 1861 he received a doctorate in med et chir. and learned as a surgical pupil of Franz shoe the then most modern techniques of surgery. He was from 1863 to 1869 assistant of Josef Skoda and habilitated in 1867, diseases of the chest and larynx as Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna. After the death of Louis Türcks he founded in the faculty the first chair of the specialty of laryngology and established in 1871, the first Laryngologic clinic in the world at the Vienna General Hospital a. 1875 Schroetter Associate Professor of Laryngology. From 1875 to 1881 he headed the department of internal medicine of Rudolf hospital. In 1881 he was chief physician at the General Hospital, and in 1885 he received the Teaching Authority over the entire field of internal medicine. As a recognized specialist Schroetter was 1888 Consilium from San Remo to the bedside of the German Friedrich heir, the future Emperor Frederick III. , Called. Contrary to the opinion of the attending physician, the British Morell Mackenzie, he diagnosed applicable throat cancer. Schroetter in 1890 was promoted to full professor in 1896 and eventually appointed councilor. Schroetter died on April 22, 1908, a day after he held a speech at the 1st International Laryngologenkongress, whose honorary president he was.

Schroetter in 1869 married Elizabeth Caroline Wagner ( 1847-1918 ), the daughter of a cloth merchant Osnabrück. His two sons, Herman and Erich (1874-1939) were also doctors. Hermann von Schroetter was a co-founder of aviation medicine. Leopold Schrötter also had daughters Else and Frieda.

Work

Schrotter research focus was initially in the field of laryngology. Later he extended it to heart and vascular diseases. Thrombosis of the deep arm, axillary or subclavian vein, the Paget- Schroetter - syndrome is named after the English surgeon Sir James Paget and after Leopold von Schroetter. In his clinic, he led an early X-ray diagnostics. In addition to Crown Prince Frederick he treated since 1891 Anton Bruckner.

Already in 1883 he had in his book The sick hospital recommended the climatological treatment of tuberculosis in closed institutions. Especially Schrotter use it is thanks to them that in 1896, the building of the sanatorium Alland could begin in the Vienna Woods. After the opening in 1898 also little wealthy patients could be treated here. Social commitment he showed in the founding of the association Ferienhort for needy and worthy high school students with the goal of enabling students from modest a holiday in the countryside.

Meyers encyclopedia of 1888 writes:

Awards, honors

Schroetter received high awards of several states, 1888 the Prussian Red Eagle Order, Second Class, 1899, the Commander's Cross of the Austrian Franz Joseph Order, 1904, the Commander's Cross of the Danish Dannebrog, First Class and 1907 the Commander's Cross of the Swedish North Star Order, First Class. He was a member of the Imperial Leopoldino - carolinischen German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina since 1888.

The City of Vienna granted him at the Central Cemetery a grave of honor ( group 14 A, number 19 ) on which a modeled by Caspar von Zumbusch relief portrait was unveiled on 7 June 1909.

Writings (selection )

• Contribution to the treatment of laryngeal stenosis, 1876
• Lectures on the diseases of the larynx, trachea, nose, and throat irritation, 1887
• About pulmonary tuberculosis and the means to cure, 1890 and 1891
• Lectures on the diseases of the windpipe, 1896
• Hygiene of the lung in health and disease status, 1903
• About hotel construction from the hygienic point of view, 1906