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Walther Carl Eduard Kausch

Born  1867
Died  1928

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German surgeon, born July 17, 1867, Königsberg, Prussia, (now Kaliningrad, Russia); died March 24, 1928, Berlin.

Biography of Walther Carl Eduard Kausch

Walther Carl Eduard Kausch was the second of four children. He studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität in Strassburg from 1885 to 1890. He received his doctor's license on July 8, 1890 and obtained his doctorate in 1891. From 1890 to 1892 he worked in the pscychiatric-neurologic clinic under Friedrich Jolly (1844-1904) and Karl Fürstner (1848-1906), then from 1892 to 1896 at the medical clinic under Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1935). After being habilitated for internal medicine in 1896, he changed to surgery. From 1896 to 1906 he worked at the university surgical clinic in Breslau, training under professor Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905). The surgical clinic in Breslau was one of the largest in its time.

Kausch was habilitated for surgery in 1899, becoming titular professor in 1902. In 1903, Kausch married Mikulicz' daughter. After the death of his father-in-law in 1905, Kausch became head of the clinic in an acting capacity. In 1905 he was elected medical director and head of the I. surgical department at the Städtisches Augusta-Viktoria-Krankenhaus in Berlin-Schöneberg, then still under construction. He headed the Augusta-Viktoria-Krankenhaus and its surgical department until his death from fulminant pulmonary emboly following perforating appendicitis on March, 24, 1928.

Bibliography

  • Über den Diabetes mellitus der Vögel.
    Habilitation thesis, University of Strassburg, 1896.
  • Chirurgie des Magens und Darmes.
    In: Handbuch der praktischen Chirurgie, 1.–5 A, volume 3, Stuttgart, 1899-1921.
  • Erkrankungen der Brustdrüse.
    Deutsche Klinik, volume 8, Berlin and Vienna, 1905.
  • Pathologie und Therapie des Ileus. Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Verdauungskrankheiten, volume 5, 6, Halle, 1915.
  • G. Spech, K. Stinshoff:
    [Walther Kausch (1867-1928) and his significance in pancreatic surgery]
    Article in German. Zentralblatt für Chirurgie, Leipzig, June 2001, 126 (6): 479-481.

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