Maximilian Nitze

Maximilian ( Max ) Nitze ( born September 18, 1848 in Berlin, † February 23, 1906 in Berlin) was a German urologist and inventor of the cystoscope.

Life and work

Maximilian Nitze attended high school in Wernigerode, which he left in 1869 with the Matura certificate, to study at the universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Leipzig medicine. In 1874 he received his doctorate and was from 1876 to 1878 - at times together with Felix Martin Oberlander - worked as assistant at the city hospital in Dresden. There he worked on, among other things also with experiments on the possibility of illumination internal hollow organs. However, he was held in Dresden no way to appropriate technical design of its testing, so he went to a instrument manufacturers to Vienna, the technically supported him in his experiments.

On May 9, 1879 Max Nitze demonstrated for the first time he invented Urethro and cystoscope in public. He managed to push through the method he developed in the professional world and develop.

In 1889 he presented his habilitation thesis in Berlin on urology, 1900, he was an associate professor. His publications on the treatment of bladder and kidney diseases showed new ways and served to the advancement of urology.

The German Society for Urology award is endowed with 15,000 euros (as of 2013) Maximilian Nitze Award for urological research.

Works (selection)

• Textbook of cystoscopy, Wiesbaden 1889 (2nd edition 1907)
• Kystophotographischer Atlas, Wiesbaden 1894
• A new observation and examination method for urethra, bladder and rectum. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 1879 (29 ), 24