Heinrich Hilgenreiner (3 November 1870 – 24 October 1954) German surgeon and

orthopedist Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (American and British English spelling differences, alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgic ...

Biography

Born in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

, and raised in a German family in

Bohemia Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohem ...

(which at the time was part of the

Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

monarchy), he served as a medical officer in the First World War. After the war, he became a professor of the

German Charles-Ferdinand University Charles University ( cs, Univerzita Karlova, UK; la, Universitas Carolina; german: Karls-Universität), also known as Charles University in Prague or historically as the University of Prague ( la, Universitas Pragensis, links=no), is the oldest an ...

in Prague and director of the ''Kinderklinik'' (children's clinic). In 1946 he was forced to leave

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

for

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

, where he lived until his death. He was the younger brother of

Karl Hilgenreiner Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austrian ...

, a theologian and politician, also professor at Charles University. He is the grandfather of the Austrian artist

Gerhard Gleich Gerhard Gleich (born 23 October 1941 in Prague) is an artist and professor '' emeritus'' of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria. He grew up as Gerhard Feest and later adopted the name of his second wife, the Polish-Austrian painter ...

. He died in 1954 in

Spillern Spillern is a town in the district of Korneuburg in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the nort ...

Work

As a professor at the Karls-Universität in Prague, he became a specialist on the diagnosis and cure of congenital luxation of the hip joint in infants and young children. "

Hilgenreiner's line Hilgenreiner's line is a horizontal line drawn on an AP radiograph of the pelvis running between the inferior aspects of both triradiate cartilages of the acetabulums. It is named for Heinrich Hilgenreiner. Clinical Use Used in conjunction with ...

" (in German: ''Hilgenreiners Hilfslinien''; ''Hilgenreiners Beckenskiagramm'') is a system of lines drawn on an x-ray used for the diagnosis of this condition.

Literature

Heinrich Hilgenreiner (1935) "''Die angeborene Dysplasie der Hüfte: 10 Jahre Abduktionsschiene und Frühbehandlung der angeborenen Hüftverrenkung''" in: "''Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie einschliesslich Heilgymnastik und Massage''", Stuttgart, 63: 344-483.

External links

* http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2150.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Hilgenreiner, Heinrich 1870 births 1954 deaths German orthopedic surgeons Academic staff of Charles University