Otto Körner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German university teacher (1858-1935)
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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Otto Körner
- Otto Körner (18 May 1858 in Frankfurt am Main – 9 October 1935 in Rostock) was a German otorhinolaryngologist. From 1878 to 1882 he studied medicine at the universities of Marburg, Freiburg and Strasbourg, where he was a student of internist Adolf Kussmaul.
- In 1882 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the larynx 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.In 1894 he was named as a successor to Christian Lemcke at the University of Rostock, 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.
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