Hermann Schwartze

Hermann Schwartze, full name Hermann Hugo Rudolf Schwartze (1837&#45;1910) was a German aurist, born at Neuhof in Pomerania and educated in Berlin and W&. He settled in Halle, where he became assistant professor of otology at the University.

One of the founders of modern otology, Schwartze made a particular study of the anatomy of the ear and improved the methods of paracentesis on the tympanic membrane and of the opening of inflamed apophyses of the middle ear.

He wrote Praktische Beitr&#228;ge zur Ohrenheilkunde (1864), Pathologische Anatomie des Ohrs (1878; English translation by J. O. Green, The Pathological Anatomy of the Ear, 1878), Lehrbuch der chirurgischen Krankheiten desOhrs (1885), and Grundriss der Otologie (1905). He was co-editor with Berthold of the Handbuch der Ohrenheilkunde (1892&#45;93); and in 1872 became editor of the Archiv f&#252;r Ohrenheilkunde. With Adam Politzer and Anton von Troeltsch he founded the first journal dedicated to ear disorders.

Terms

 * Schwartze's operation &mdash; the opening of the mastoid cells with a hammer and chisel in disease of the middle ear.
 * Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)

Hermann Schwartze