Otto Körner (18 May 1858 in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

– 9 October 1935 in

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

) was a German

otorhinolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...

. From 1878 to 1882 he studied medicine at the universities of

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and

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, where he was a student of internist

Adolf Kussmaul Adolf Kussmaul (; 22 February 1822 – 28 May 1902) was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. Biography Adolf Kussmaul was born as the son and grandson of physicians in Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at Heidelberg. He ente ...

. In 1882 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the

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in animals and humans. After graduation, he remained in Strasbourg as an assistant to Abraham Kuhn, then later on, returned to his hometown of Frankfurt, where from 1886 to 1894 he worked as a general practitioner.Körner, Otto
Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium In 1894 he was named as a successor to Christian Lemcke at the

University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...

, where in 1899 he opened the first university clinic dedicated to ear, nose and throat diseases in Germany. From 1901 to 1929 he was a full professor of otorhinolaryngology at Rostock. From 1895 to 1935 he was editor of the ''Zeitschrift für Ohren- und Kehlkopfheilkunde'' ("Journal of ear and throat medicine"). In 1913/14 he served as academic rector at the University of Rostock.

Selected works

* ''Die otitischen Erkrankungen des Hirns, der Hirnhäute und der Blutleiter'', 1894 – The otitic diseases of the brain,

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and sinuses. * ''Die Ohrenheilkunde des Hippokrates'', 1896 – The

otology Otology is a branch of medicine which studies normal, pathological anatomy and physiology of the ear (hearing). Otology also studies vestibular sensory systems, related structures and functions, as well as their diseases, diagnosis and trea ...

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. * ''Die hygiene des ohres'', 1898 – Hygiene of the ear. * ''Die eitrigen Erkrankungen des Schläfenbeins'', 1899 – The purulent diseases of the

temporal bone The temporal bone is a paired bone situated at the sides and base of the skull, lateral to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex. The temporal bones are overlaid by the sides of the head known as the temples where four of the cranial bone ...

. * ''Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde und ihrer Grenzgebiete'', 1906 – Textbook of otology and its periphery. * ''Lehrbuch der Ohren-, Nasen- und Kehlkopf-Krankheiten'', 1909 – Textbook of ear, nose and throat diseases. * ''Geist und Methode der Natur- und Krankheitsbeobachtung im griechischen Altertume'', 1914 – Spirit and method of nature and disease observation in ancient Greece. * ''Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles'', 1917 – The

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ic animal system and its importance for the zoological classification of

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.Most widely held works by Otto Körner
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Korner, Otto 1858 births 1935 deaths Physicians from Frankfurt University of Strasbourg alumni Academic staff of the University of Rostock German otolaryngologists 19th-century German physicians People from the Free City of Frankfurt