Lichtenberg

Lichtenberg Alexander (Alexander Lichtenberg, born in 1880), an outstanding contemporary German urologist. He was an assistant to Czerny and Narath. In 1924, he took charge of the urology department at St. Hedwig's Catholic Hospital in Berlin, which is currently the largest in Germany (180 beds). The rich material of the department on one hand, and Lichtenberg's personal qualities on the other, made his department the center of urological life in Germany. An excellent surgeon, a good diagnostician, and an educated physician, L. is very popular among both doctors and patients. L. is the founder of the "Ztschr. f. urologische Chirurgie" (Berlin, since 1913) and its actual editor, as well as the editor of the "Jahresbericht über die gesamte Urologie und ihre Grenzgebiete" (Berlin, since 1921) and the "Handbuch der Urologie" (together with F. Voelcker and H. Wildbolz, Volumes I-V, Berlin, 1926-29). He is an honorary member of German, Moscow, American, Italian, and Spanish urological societies, and was chairman of the German society and the German congress of urologists. He is the creator of the pyelography method (together with Voelcker) and improved it through intravenous application of uroselectan. For a number of collective guides, L. provided monographically processed chapters on histology, embryology, and surgery of the bladder and urethra, on surgery of gonorrhea, etc.