Franz König (10 February 1832 – 12 December 1910) was a German surgeon. The son of a physician, he was born in Rotenburg an der Fulda.[1]
In 1855 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg, and was later district wound surgeon (Amtswundarzt) in Hanau. Afterwards he was a professor of surgery at the universities of Rostock (from 1869) and Göttingen (from 1875), and eventually at the Charité-Berlin, where in 1895 he succeeded Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben.[2] In 1904 he was succeeded at the Charité by Otto Hildebrand.[3]
He died in Grunewald near Berlin.
König is largely remembered for his work in bone and joint surgery. He was the first surgeon to perform a successful internal fixation of proximal femur fractures. In 1887, he published a paper on the cause of loose bodies in the joint. In his paper, König concluded:[4]
- That trauma had to be very severe to break off parts of the joint surface.
- That lesser degrees of trauma might contuse the bone to cause an area of necrosis which might then separate.
- That in some cases, the absence of trauma worth mentioning made it likely that there existed some spontaneous cause of separation.
König named the disease "osteochondritis dissecans",[5] describing it as a subchondral inflammatory process of the knee, resulting in a loose fragment of cartilage from the femoral condyle.
In 1892 he provided a comprehensive description of hemophilic arthropathy. He is credited for formulating three stages of hemophilic joint disease.[6][7]
Associated eponym
edit- König's syndrome: Various abdominal symptoms caused by an incomplete obstruction of the small intestine.
Notes
edit- ^ Brand, Richard A. (April 2013). "Biographical Sketch: Franz König, MD 1832–1910". Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 471 (4): 1116–1117. doi:10.1007/s11999-013-2823-z. ISSN 0009-921X. PMC 3586039. PMID 23381622.
- ^ König, Franz Hessian Biography
- ^ Görres - Hittorp / edited by Rudolf Vierhaus Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie
- ^ König F (December 1888). "Uber freie Korper in den gelenken". Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie. 27 (1–2): 90–109. doi:10.1007/BF02792135. S2CID 40506960.[dead link]
- ^ Barrie HJ (November 1987). "Osteochondritis dissecans 1887–1987. A centennial look at König's memorable phrase" (PDF). Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume. 69 (5): 693–5. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.69B5.3316236. PMID 3316236. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-18.
- ^ Factor VIII - von Willebrand Factor, Volume 1 by M. J. Seghatchian, G. F. Savidge
- ^ Looking Back on X-Rays and Hemophilic Arthropathy Archived 2017-03-14 at the Wayback Machine Richards Review 05-2011_Layout 1 5/19/11
References
edit- Franz König at Who Named It
- Proximal femur fractures: the pioneer era of 1818 to 1925 Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2004 Feb;(419):306-10.
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