Themistocles Gluck
Themistocles Gluck ( born November 30, 1853 in Jassy, Principality of Moldavia, † April 25, 1942 in Berlin) was a German surgeon.
Life and work
The parents had left in grief over the death of two children Germany and started a new life in Jassy in Romania. Here Themistocles was born of a Greek godfather got its name, a friend's parents. The father, a doctor, later physician to the Romanian king Charles I was training to parents sent the Son in 1864 to a German school, the Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Breslau. After graduation in 1873 ( together with Felix Auerbach ), he studied medicine in Leipzig and Berlin. Rudolf Virchow, Bernhard von Langenbeck and Ernst von Bergmann were his teachers. After 1876 the state exam taken, he participated as a medical officer at the Russian - Ottoman war. After that, he was in Berlin from 1878 to 1884 assistant at Langenbeck and miner. In 1882 he qualified as a professor - at the age of 29 years - for surgery.
In 1890 he was appointed as a surgical chief physician to the new Emperor and Empress Frederick Hospital in Berlin -Wedding. Until 1924 he worked here. Gluck fundamental and pioneering research for the treatment of vascular, bone, muscle, tendon and nerve defects by stitching, grafting and plastic prostheses were initially rejected by established colleagues. By 1890 he had a total knee replacement ivory implanted with the aid of rosin and plaster. Gluck designed the cement fixation of prostheses, an idea that John Charnley 50 years later took up and sat.
His wife was a great support to him. Theodor Billroth, Surgeon and music lovers like Gluck, wrote to his friend Johannes Brahms Gluck: Each researcher has been a kind of artist basically. With rich imagination and childlike sense. Science and art draw from a source.
Honors
For his work on nerve suture and nerve regeneration, he received the first National Award of the Berlin University. The French surgeon Louis Léopold Ollier and Jules Péan had recognized Gluck's importance as early as the 1890s. With his larynx surgery, he achieved world fame. However, it took until he found the proper academic recognition as a non -university surgeon. It was only in his 70th year (1922 ) he was appointed associate professor and even nominated for the Nobel Prize. The German Surgical Society awarded him an honorary membership. Now also renowned surgeons such as Hermann Kümmell and Erwin payr known in Germany to Gluck and his ideas. Since 2000, awarded by the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery of the annual Themistocles Gluck - Prize for arthroplasty.
Works (selection)
- About Neuro plastic in the way of transplantation. In: Archives of Clinical Surgery. Volume 25, 1880, pp. 606-616
- About transplantation, regeneration and inflammatory new formation. In: Berliner clinical Wochenschrift. Volume 18, 1881, pp. 529 ff
- The Invaginationsmethode of osteo- and arthroplasty. In: Berliner clinical Wochenschrift. Volume 19, 1890, pp. 732-736
- Presentation on the results obtained from the modern surgical experiment positive results concerning the suture and replacement of Defecten higher tissue. In: Langenbeck's Archives of Clinical Surgery. Volume 41, 1891, 6, p 15
- Autoplasty transplant - implantation of foreign bodies. In: Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift. Volume 27, 1890, pp. 421-427
- The development of lung surgery. In: Archives of Clinical Surgery. Volume 83, 1907, pp. 581-601
- D. Wessinghage: Themistocles Gluck - From the Organexstirpation joint replacement. In: German Medical Journal. Volume 33, 1995