Karl Stoerk

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Karl Stoerk (German: Störk); (September 17, 1832 - September 13, 1899) was an Austrian laryngologist who was a native of Ofen. He studied medicine at the Universities of Prague and Vienna, and received his doctorate in 1858. Afterwards he was an assistant to Ludwig Türck (1810-1868) in Vienna, where he practiced medicine for the remainder of his career. In 1891 Stoerk was appointed head of the laryngological clinic.

Along with Leopold von Schrötter (1837-1908) and Johann Schnitzler (1835-1893), Stoerk was a catalyst in making Vienna a major center of laryngological research in the 19th century. He demonstrated the possibility of applying medicine into larynx and throat assisted by a laryngoscope. He also devised several medical instruments, including an early esophagoscope that was modification of the "Waldenburg esophagoscope". Stoerk's endoscopic device consisted of three telescopic tubes with a bendable mechanism.

• Associated eponym:
• Stoerk's blennorrhea: free discharge of mucus producing hypertrophy of the mucosa of the nose, pharynx, and larynx.

Selected writings

• Laryngoscopische Mittheilungen, Vienna, (1863)
• Laryngoscopische Operationen, ib. 1870 (2d ed. 1872);
• Beiträge zur Heilung des Parenchym und Cystenkropfes, Erlangen, 1874
• Mittheilungen über Asthma Bronchiale und die Mechanische Lungenbehandlung, Stuttgart, (1875)
• Klinik der Krankheiten des Kehlkopfes, der Nase und des Rachens, ib. 1876-80;
• Sprechen und Singen, Vienna, (1881)
• Die Erkrankungen der Nase, des Rachens und des Kehlkopfes, ib. 1895-97

References

• Diseases of the Throat and Nose, Including the Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea by Morell Mackenzie
• The Jewish Encyclopedia; Biography of Karl Stoerk
• Dorlands Medical Dictionary

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