Otto Küstner

Otto Ernst Küstner ( born August 26, 1849 in Trossin, district Torgau, Saxony Province; † May 12, 1931 ) was a German gynecologist and university teachers.

Life

Küstner came from a family of manor owners. From 1868, he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, where he was active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig. Inactive as he moved in the winter semester 1869/70 at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. As a one-year volunteer in the Guard Fusilier Regiment, he took part in the Franco-German War. His studies he finished the Friedrichs- University of Halle. He earned a doctorate to the Dr. med since 1873, he habilitated in 1877 for obstetrics and gynecology.

He was A.O. Professor at the University of Jena and professor at the University of Dorpat. From 1893 until his retirement he was finally professor at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. After the outbreak of the First World War, he was elected for the academic year 1914/15 to the rector. As a Secret medical officer and retired, he retired to his ancestral manor in Trossin. In 1928 he was made an honorary member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He died at the age of 82.

Küstner has rendered outstanding especially around the caesarean section and the pathology of his subject. Some surgical procedures have been named after him.

Works

• The abdominal cesarean section. Wiesbaden 1915.
• Short Textbook of Gynecology, 9th Edition. Jena 1922.
• Pathology of pregnancy, in: K. Baisel (among others), Handbook of Obstetrics Volume 2, Munich ( and others) in 1924. (?)