Bernhard Rudolf Conrad von LANGENBECK - founder and first Chairman of the German society of surgeons(to the 210th of birthday)

Abstract

Langenbek was born in 1810 in the family of a rural pastor. At 19, he entered the medical faculty of the University of Gttingen, where he graduated with the title of doctor. In 1834, Mr .. He received a doctorate in medicine and after doing scientific practice in Belgium, France and England. In 1838, Bernhard Langenbeck received the title of Privatdocent, in 1841 he was elected extraordinary professor of the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the University of Gttingen, becoming an assistant clinic. B. Langenbek, is developing a number of surgical interventions that bring him wide popularity in the surgical world. Since 1841, B. Langenbek - head of the Department of Surgery in Kiel, then in Berlin. He is the pioneer of German scientific surgery, ensuring its rapid scientific progress in Germany.
 
 Langenbek operates a lot on bones and joints, performs plastic surgeries, pharynx and larynx extirpation, resection of the tongue, removal of the uterus, ovariotomy, etc. Today, more than 20 surgical methods associated with the name of B. Langenbek are known, and a retractor proposed by B. Langenbek is used; hemostatic tourniquet developed by F. Esmarch and Langenbeck.
 Langenbeck advocated regular postgraduate education, the establishment of a higher educational institution for military doctors, created the Red Cross Society committee in Germany, the scientific society of military doctors, founded the scientific journal Archive of Clinical Surgery, the German Society of Surgeons, whose first chairman was from 1872 to 1885 Langenbek was awarded the title of Major General and the rank of Actual Privy Councilor. September 29, 1887 Langenbek "suddenly died of a blow." On June 8, 1892, the grand opening of the Langenbeck House, which became the property of the German Society of Surgeons, took place in Berlin. Bernhard Langenbeck remains the first magnitude star among the luminaries of German surgery.