Otto Sprengel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Otto Sprengel

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1852

Place of Birth: Waren (Müritz), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1915

Profession: physician, surgeon

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Otto Sprengel

  • Otto Gerhard Karl Sprengel (27 December 1852, in Waren an der Müritz – 8 January 1915, in Berlin) was a German surgeon. He studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen, Munich and Rostock, receiving his doctorate at the University of Marburg in 1877.
  • At Marburg he worked as an assistant to surgeon Wilhelm Roser, then afterwards, spent three years as an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at the University of Halle.
  • After practicing medicine for a short period of time in Frankfurt am Main, he was named senior physician at the children's hospital in Dresden (1882).
  • In 1896 he relocated to the hospital in Braunschweig as head of its surgical department.
  • He was elected president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie, but died soon afterwards of sepsis, contacted when operating on a patient with a gunshot wound.He was especially interested in abdominal surgery, and introduced a transverse sub-umbilical incision referred to as "Sprengel's incision".
  • In 1891 he described a congenital disorder affecting the scapula that is now known as "Sprengel's deformity".
  • He described the condition in a paper titled Die angeborene Verschiebung des Schulterblattes nach oben ("The congenital upward displacement of the scapula").His book Appendicitis (1906) was later translated into English.
  • Another noted work by Sprengel was Über den Begriff 'Bruchanlage' in der Praxis (1909).

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