Paul Manasse (14 March 1866 in
Naugard – 27 September 1927 in
Würzburg) was a German physician, who specialized in the field of
otology.
He studied medicine at the universities of
Tübingen,
Berlin and
Strasbourg
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, and after graduation, served as an assistant at the otology clinic in Strasbourg. Following a study trip to
Vienna and
Berlin, he obtained his
habilitation
Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...
for otology at the University of Strasbourg. In 1901 he was named director of the otology clinic, and during the following year, became an associate professor at the university. In 1911 he attained a full professorship, and in 1919 relocated to the
University of Würzburg, where he founded a clinic at the Luitpold-Krankenhaus.
Selected works
* ''Die Heilung der Lungentuberkulose durch diätetisch-hygieinische Behandlung in Anstalten und Kurorten'', 1891 – The cure of
pulmonary tuberculosis by dietary-hygienic treatment in hospitals and spas.
* ''Über chronische, progressive, labyrinthäre Taubheit'', 1906 – On chronic, progressive,
labyrinthine deafness.
* ''Die Ostitis chronica metaplastica der menschlichen Labyrinthkapsel : (Otosklerose, Stapesankylose, Spongiosierung der Labyrinthkapesel)'', 1912 – Chronic
otitis
Otitis is a general term for inflammation or infection, inner ear infection, middle ear infection of the ear, in both humans and other animals. When infection is present, it may be viral or bacterial. When inflammation is present due to fluid buil ...
metaplastica of the human
labyrinth capsule (
otosclerosis,
stapes ankylosis, spongification of the labyrinth capsule).
* ''Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie des menschlichen Ohres'' (with Wilhelm Lange,
Karl Grünberg
Karl Grünberg (died 1921, in Rostock) was a German entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.
Karl Grünberg was a professor at the University of Rostock. He wrote the Palearctic Notodontidae section of Adalbert Seitz
Friedrich Joseph Adalbert ...
), 1917 – Manual of
pathological anatomy of the human ear.
* ''Anatomische Untersuchungen über die Tuberkulose der oberen Luftwege'', 1927 – Anatomical studies of tuberculosis of the upper airways.
Most widely held works by Paul Manasse
OCLC WorldCat
References
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1866 births
1927 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
Academic staff of the University of Würzburg
German otolaryngologists
20th-century German physicians
People from Nowogard