Ludwik Rydygier
Ludwig Anton Rydygier by Ruediger ( born August 21, 1850 Good Dossoczyn at Graudenz as Ludwig Riediger, † June 25, 1920 in Lemberg, Galicia ) was a German - Polish surgeon, urologist and high school teachers. Like no other he represents the interconnectedness of West Prussia and Poland and the supranational Catholicism East Central Europe.
Life
As a thirteenth child of the landowner Carl Riediger and his wife Elisabeth, née West Prussian king, he attended the Collegium marianum in Pelplin, from 1858, the Konitz high school and from high school in 1861, the Culm. After graduation he studied medicine from 1869 at the University of Greifswald. As he campaigned for the Polish language, he was expelled for a year. He went to the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin and the Kaiser-Wilhelms -University of Strasbourg. Back in Greifswald, he was in 1873 the state exam. In 1874 he received a doctorate in med.
West Prussia
Because at first he could not find employment in the Greifswald surgery, Riediger went to Gdansk. There he worked for a time at St. Mary Hospital, of the Sisters of Charity of St.. Charles Borromeo was performed. A short time later he opened a medical practice in Culm.
In 1877, he finally received an assistantship in his revered mentor Carl Hueter in Greifswald. In 1878 he completed his habilitation at the University of Jena, where he worked as a lecturer until 1879. From Jena, he attended the surgical clinics in Warsaw and Vienna. In 1880 he returned to Culm, to conduct a private clinic that was well equipped in medical and sanitary point of view and also played an important role through their scientific research and teaching. In this time the most important of approximately 200 publications and the textbook of the exact surgery.
On 16 November 1880 he was by Jules Péan the world's second who dared a pyloric resection for a cancer patient. On November 21, 1881, he repeated the procedure at ulkusbedingter pyloric stenosis.
Cracow and Lemberg
Riediger Polonised 1887 officially his last name into the form Rydygier in connection with a branch as a general practitioner in Munich. On July 2, 1887 Ludwig Riediger was appointed in Kulm by the Emperor of Austria to full professor of surgery at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He used in his publications for some time have to be named and led the Rydygier also continued. In 1890 he was in Krakow Vice Dean of the medical college professor.
In 1897 he joined the University of Lemberg. In 23 years, he developed an intense clinical, scientific and political activity. He was elected Dean of the Medical Faculty for the academic years 1898/99 and 1911 /12. 1901/ 02 he was rector. In 1903 he declined an appointment to the Charles-Ferdinand University. In 1906 he was co-founder of the German Society of Urology which elected him to the Board. In 1912 he presented his until then 149 publications together in the original language versions.
Time after 1914
In the time of World War Rydygier worked briefly in Vienna, then ran until 1916, however, a military hospital in Brno. After the restoration of Polish statehood in 1918, he worked first in the creation of a medical faculty at the newly created Polish Poznan University. In 1920 he joined the Polish Army and became chief of the military medical corps in Pomerania in the rank of brigadier general (Polish: general podporucznik ).
Emeritus in 1920, he wanted to move to his native Dirschau. During negotiations on the sale of his property in Lviv he died almost 70 years in the office of a notary Lemberger. In a burial with military honors, he was buried on the Lychakiv Cemetery.
Honors
- Order of the Iron Crown
- Ennoblement by Franz Joseph I (1897 )
- Councilor (15 December 1897)
- Commander of St Gregory (18 March 1898)
- Member of Galician Landtag ( Rector )
- Member of the Lviv City Council (1902-1905)
The Association of Polish Surgeons ( had the Riediger founded ) came in 1958 with the building of the hospital Culmer a plaque. 1970 another plaque was placed at the house of his private clinic. The museum in the old town hall is a permanent exhibition dedicated to him.