Bernhard Heine (* 20 August 1800 in Schramberg (Black Forest); "† 31. July 1846 in Glockenthal with Thun (CH)) were physician, bone specialist and inventor of the Osteotoms.

Lehrjahre in peppering castle

Bernhard Heine is born on 20 August 1800 as a son of a Weissgerbers in Schramberg. Already with ten (after other sources thirteen) years it is given with its uncle Johann George Heine in peppering castle to the teachings as Without inscription it visits later medical lectures at the Julius Maximilians university. After several journeys he takes over 1822 his own department at the Karolinen institute and takes over its line, when the uncle goes to Holland (1829).

Invention of the Osteotoms

1830 hand over to the professional world a medical instrument, which he developed after research for many years Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Heine. It is a which it calls Osteotom and with its assistance the operational technology is revolutionized. Already 1836 appear a thesis over "the Osteotom and its application" and Heine travel by Germany France and Russia, in order to present it to the medical profession. An offer of the Russian Zaren Nikolaus, orthopedic director/conductor of the imperial educational establishment in Kronstadt to become, rejects Heine and returns to peppering castle. Those already 1836 of the university gave becomes two years later the Ehrenprofessur for the physician without final examinations. Numerous further honours in German and European countries follow.

Research over bone formation

Bernhard Heine arrives at this very day valid realizations over the structure of bone and the bone regeneration (new formation from bones to injuries). Heine proves that the bone skin, which plays Periost, during the bone new formation a substantial role and therefore with the operation to be preserved is. Unfortunately its in former times death prevented that it publishes its research results in a scientific complete work. He taught since 1844 as an extraordinary professor at the University of experimental physiology, became however serve unable by a Tuberkuloseerkrankung already soon and died on 31 July 1846 with a sick leave in Switzerland in Glockenthal with Thun. Only eighty years after its death (1926) were again discovered and published the research results.

See also

• Heine - as surname

Literature

• Heinz Hansen: The orthopedist family Heine - lives and working of the individual family members in the indication of an important German family tradition of the nineteenth century. Thesis, Dresden 1993
• Hans Hekler: Bernhard Heine - by kings honoured and by Zar Nikolaus umworben. in: D'Kr¤z (contributions to the history of the city and the space shank Schramberg) number 10, Schramberg 1990 (also on-line, see Related links

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