Robert Kienböck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert Kienböck

Austrian radiologist

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1871

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 08-Sep-1953

Profession: university teacher, radiologist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Robert Kienböck

  • Robert Kienböck (11 January 1871 – 8 September 1953) was an Austrian radiologist who was a native of Vienna.
  • In 1895 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Vienna, and spent the next year abroad (London and Paris).
  • He returned to Vienna as an assistant to Leopold von Schrötter (1837–1908), a laryngologist, and began working in the new science of radiology.
  • Several years later, he became head of the radiological department at Vienna General Hospital.
  • In 1926 he became an associate professor of radiology. In June 1923, along with Guido Holzknecht (1872-1931), he was co-founder of the Wiener Gesellschaft für Röntgenkunde (Vienna Radiology Society).
  • He was elected president of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Röntgenkunde (Austrian Radiology Society) in 1934 and honorary president of that body after the Second World War.
  • With Holzknecht, he published the two-part Röntgenologie.
  • Eine Revision ihrer technischen Einrichtungen und praktische Methoden (Roentgenology.
  • A review of its technical facilities and practical methods).Kienböck was a pioneer in the use of x-ray technology for medical diagnosis and therapy.
  • He specialized in research of skeletal diseases and its treatment through radiology.
  • In 1910 he described a disorder which consisted of breakdown of the lunate bone in the wrist.
  • He called the disorder "lunatomalacia", which is now known as Kienböck's disease.
  • Kienböck published his findings in a treatise titled Über traumatische Malazie des Mondbeins und ihre Folgezustände (Traumatic malacia of the lunate and its consequences).

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