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Review
. 2022 Jul;70(Suppl 2):18-29.
doi: 10.1007/s00106-021-01137-7. Epub 2022 Jun 1.

Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going? : President's speech at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery on the occasion of its centennial

Stefan K Plontke  1
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Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going? : President's speech at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery on the occasion of its centennial

Stefan K Plontke. HNO. 2022 Jul.
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S.K. Plontke declares that he has no competing interests.

Figures

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Journals: In 1864, the Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde (Archive of Otology), the first scientific journal devoted specifically to the (later) field of otorhinolaryngology, was founded by Anton von Tröltsch (1829–1890) from Würzburg, Adam Politzer (1835–1920) from Vienna, and Hermann Schwartze (1837–1910) from Halle (Saale) [31, 34]
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Journals: The Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde was renamed Archiv für Ohren‑, Nasen-, und Kehlkopfheilkunde (Archive of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology) in 1915 and still continues today as the European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head & Neck and as the journal HNO (ENT), which was first published as a supplement [42]
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Journals: Today’s journal Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie (Laryngo-Rhino-Otology) was published from 1867 as Monatsschrift für Ohrenheilkunde (Monthly Journal of Otology) and from 1882 as Monatsschrift für Ohrenheilkunde und für Kehlkopf‑, Nasen‑, Rachenkrankheiten (Monthly Journal of Otology and Diseases of the Larynx, Nose and Throat) [42]. Cover picture: with permission © Georg Thieme Verlag KG, all rights reserved
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The first German associate professors in the (later) field of otorhinolaryngology. a Salomon Moos (1831–1895), 1859 habilitation for internal medicine, 1866 extraordinary professor for otology in Heidelberg. Source: Graphische Sammlung, Heidelberg University Library, Graph. Slg. P_1799, Photographer: Eduard Schultze. b Hermann Schwartze (1837–1910, 1863 habilitation in otology and 1868 extraordinary professor of otology in Halle (Saale). With permission © University Archives of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, UAHW, Rep. 40, VI, No. 1, Fig. 39, all rights reserved. c Friedrich Rudolf Voltolini (1819–1889), 1860 habilitation and 1868 extraordinary professor of otology and laryngology in Breslau. From [51]
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The first hospital building in Germany specifically for the inpatient treatment of patients in our field in 1884: the Königliche Universitäts-Ohrenklinik (Royal University Ear Hospital) in Halle (Saale). a Construction drawing [8], with permission © University Archives of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, UAHW, Rep. 8, Folder 91, all rights reserved. b Current view of the former men’s ward of the former ear hospital; today, among other things, the dean’s office of the medical faculty. Photo: S. Plontke 2011
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First clinic (1899) and first full professorship (1901) for the entire specialty of otorhinolaryngology in Rostock by Otto Körner. a Otto Körner (1858–1935). With permission © Clinic and Polyclinic for Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery “Otto Körner,” Rostock University Medical Center, all rights reserved. b The “Grand Ducal University Hospital for Ear, Nose and Throat Patients.” From [52], Rostock University Library. c The Otto Körner Clinic today. With permission © R. A. Mlynski, all rights reserved
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Fig. 7
Foundation of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Hals‑, Nasen-, und Ohrenärzte (Society of German Otorhinolaryngologists) in 1921 (see text for details)
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Entrance page of the first complete online annual meeting of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. With permission © German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, all rights reserved. Prepared by VRtual X GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) in collaboration with COCS GmbH (Munich, Germany)
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Joseph Cohen (1873–1955) headed the ENT department of the Cologne-Mülheim Municipal Hospital from 1902. When the NSDAP came to power, Cohen was replaced for political reasons. After his license to practice medicine was revoked on September 30th, 1938, Cohen emigrated to the British mandate territory of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in February 1939, where he worked as a medical practitioner until 1953 [27]
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The Zeitschrift für Laryngologie, Rhinologie, und ihre Grenzgebiete (Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, and Their Border Specialties) was founded in 1909 by the publishing house Curt Kabitzsch in Würzburg. The founding editor was Felix Blumenfeld (1864–1947) from Wiesbaden. His extensive publishing activities have made him well known far beyond the borders of his home region. He was co-editor of several standard works on surgery, pathology, and tuberculosis. Until the National Socialists forced him to withdraw his editorship in 1934, he was continuously editor of this journal (later continued in Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie, Thieme-Verlag Stuttgart, see also Fig. 3)
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More on the history of German otorhinolaryngology also can be found in the book edited on the occasion of the 100th anniversary year of the foundation of our professional society, Geschichte der akademischen Lehrstätten, Lehrer und Lehrerinnen und Kliniken der Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie in Deutschland (History of Academic Teaching Institutions, Teachers and Hospitals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in Germany). It will unite its two predecessors published in 1996 and 2001 into one volume and update the history of the university ENT hospitals in the last 25 years and that of the non-university ENT hospitals in the last 20 years [1]
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Surgical opening of the mastoid process with chisels. a Mastoid chisels according to Schwartze. From Dench’s Textbook, 1896 [7]. b Schematic drawing of the opening of the mastoid process from the original publication by Schwartze and Eysell in 1873 [40]
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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): “Self-purpose formula” as a prohibition of instrumentalization. With permission © nickolae/stock.adobe.com, all rights reserved
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