Ludwig Rehn

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Life

Ludwig Rehn was latest from five children of the doctor of his birthplace village Allen. After the visit of the convent school in bath Field Hers he studied from 1869 to 1874 – discontinuously from the service as a volunteer in the German French war in 1870/71 – medicine in Marburg where he became a member of the corps Hasso-Nassovia. In 1875 he done a doctorate there and sat down close Frankfurt am Main – at powder home and later in home Rödel – as a doctor. From 1886 he was a surgeon and late head of department and manager of the Chiurgischen clinic of the urban hospital in Frankfurt am Main, from 1914; in addition, professor for surgery of the university newly founded this year of Frankfurt. He took part in the First World War last as an upper surgeon general.

Rehn was a member of the scientific senate emperor Wilhelm-Akademie in Berlin. He died as a going Senior medical officer.

His grandson Götz Rehn is a leader from him in 1984 founded of bio-enterprise Alnatura.

Work

In 1880 Rehn carried out the first Thyroidectorie. He was also known by the clarification of the causes of the bubble cancer with workers in the local aniline factories. Rehn the first successful seam of a sting wound succeeded on the 9th September, 1896 in the human heart, his patient was 22-year-old gardener's journeyman Wilhelm Justus whom on the 6th September were injured in a Messerstecherei in Frankfurt Nice was. On April 22nd, 1897 reported Rehn on 26. Congress of the German society for surgery in Berlin. „ My men! The Ausführbarkeit of the heart seam might be probably called into question from now on no more. “[1] in his autobiography (1923) he wrote: „ To go Stamped out paths, has never irritated me. If I still held a possibility for given to save a human life, I have risked without slightest consideration for a good statistics all strength to help the sick person or to relieve his sufferings. “[2] had led the way of the pioneer's action successful attempts in the heart of rabbit, as well as a series of fatally ended rescue attempts with the person, – without Rehn of it had knowledge – had occurred in Italy and Norway.

Honors Ludwig Rehn-Preis donated in 1973 of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Frankfurt am Main will award honor [treatment] since 1974 for an excellent scientific work in the area of the general surgery.

Likewise in Frankfurt Ludwig Rehn-Strasse was named after him.