Vincenz Czerny

Vincenz Czerny ( born November 19, 1842 in Trautenau, Bohemia, † October 3, 1916 in Heidelberg ) was a German oncologist, surgeon, and university professor.

Life

Czerny studied medicine at the Karl- Ferdinand University in Prague, where he in 1867 joined the Corps Austria. He then continued his studies at the University of Vienna under Ernst Wilhelm von Bridge, where he opened up an extensive scientific education. Czerny in Vienna habilitated for internal medicine summa cum laude and was an assistant to the famous surgeon Theodor Billroth.

Czerny made ​​numerous attempts to esophageal and laryngeal surgery. After another habilitation in the field of surgery he followed a mediated by Billroth, reputation as a surgical professor at the University of Freiburg.

In 1877, Czerny took over as the successor of Gustav Simon Professor of Surgery in Heidelberg, and the management of the surgical hospital with 120 beds. Under his leadership, the Surgical University Clinic Heidelberg won a substantial extension and importance.

In Czerny's teaching and research years, the development of the first general anesthesia and methods of asepsis fell. Its intense experimental program essentially served to produce scientific evidence to further develop the surgical operation methodology. Czerny described numerous standard operations on the esophagus, stomach and the urogenital tract and gynecological surgical procedures in gynecology.

During his long life experience as a physician and researcher, he decided to build for his cancer patients own healing and care facility and at the same time to set up a research institute to study the genesis of various cancers " under one roof" better. From 1901 campaigned against Czerny numerous difficulties for the realization of his ideas and plans.

In 1902, Czerny was Vice-Rector of the University of Heidelberg. In 1906 he resigned to devote himself entirely to the development and founder of the Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, which is considered the forerunner of today's German Cancer Research Center ( DKFZ) in Heidelberg. It consisted of a medical and nursing home for 47 cancer patients, the Samaritan House, and two academic departments. At the head of the Biological Department, 1907-1911 also Ludwik Hirszfeld worked at the, he could win the Serologists Emil von Dungern until it was even appointed to lead a Cancer Institute at the University Hospital Hamburg -Eppendorf 1913. With this idea, basic research and clinical medicine to bring together under one roof, Czerny founded the research field of experimental cancer research. In 1908 he became president of the newly formed International Association for Cancer Research. The annual reports are founded by him in the Heidelberg clinic until today standard.

Czerny died in 1916 from the effects of radiation-induced leukemia and was at the Heidelberg hill cemetery in a large family grave system laid to rest (Department T). A reminiscent in its dimensions to an obelisk pillar fragment in the Doric style, created out of black granite, is the imposing center of the plant.

Honors

  • Real power. Go. advice
  • Excellency
  • Ennoblement
  • President of the International Society of Surgery in Brussels ( 1908)
  • President of the International Association for Cancer Research in Paris ( 1910)
  • Vincenz Czerny Prize of the German Society of Hematology and Oncology
  • Honorary citizen of Heidelberg ( 1912)
  • Czerny Czerny bridge and ring in Heidelberg

Works

  • About caries of the tarsal bones, [ Volkmann 's] collection of clinical lectures, Leipzig, 1874.
  • Studies on the radical treatment of hernia. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 27 (1877 ), pp. 497-500, 527-530, 553-556, 578-581.
  • Contributions to operative surgery, Stuttgart 1878.
  • About the eradication of cervical cancer. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 29 (1879 ), pp. 1171-1174.
  • About the enucleation subperitonealer fibroids of the uterus through the vaginal vault. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 31 (1881 ), pp. 501-505, 525-529.
  • About the development of surgery during the 19th century and its relationship to class. Heidelberg 1903.
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