{"title":"Wilhelm Tönnis and His Network around 1950: His National and International Impact.","authors":"Ulrike Eisenberg","doi":"10.1055/a-2558-3390","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wilhelm Tönnis is considered the founder of postwar neurosurgery in West Germany. He was able to draw on a network of prewar and wartime colleagues and trained young colleagues who took up most of the leading neurosurgical positions in the first postwar decades. Interdisciplinary collaboration was important to him, especially with pathologists, radiologists, and neurologists. He was unable to reconnect with the broad international network of the prewar period. However, he maintained contact with his teacher Olivecrona in Sweden, other Scandinavian colleagues, and students from Italy, southeastern Europe, and South America. The network is illustrated by the description of his clinical and research staff and his colloquia, the authors of the Handbuch der Neurochirurgie (Handbook of Neurosurgery), which he co-founded, and the editors of the neurosurgical journals <i>Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie</i> and <i>Acta Neurochirurgica</i>. Tönnis' significant influence on the emancipation of neurosurgery in the postwar decades becomes evident.</p>","PeriodicalId":16544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of neurological surgery. Part A, Central European neurosurgery","volume":"86 S 01","pages":"S49-S58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of neurological surgery. Part A, Central European neurosurgery","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2558-3390","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/5/21 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Wilhelm Tönnis is considered the founder of postwar neurosurgery in West Germany. He was able to draw on a network of prewar and wartime colleagues and trained young colleagues who took up most of the leading neurosurgical positions in the first postwar decades. Interdisciplinary collaboration was important to him, especially with pathologists, radiologists, and neurologists. He was unable to reconnect with the broad international network of the prewar period. However, he maintained contact with his teacher Olivecrona in Sweden, other Scandinavian colleagues, and students from Italy, southeastern Europe, and South America. The network is illustrated by the description of his clinical and research staff and his colloquia, the authors of the Handbuch der Neurochirurgie (Handbook of Neurosurgery), which he co-founded, and the editors of the neurosurgical journals Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie and Acta Neurochirurgica. Tönnis' significant influence on the emancipation of neurosurgery in the postwar decades becomes evident.
Wilhelm Tönnis被认为是战后西德神经外科的奠基人。他能够利用战前和战时的同事和训练有素的年轻同事组成的网络,这些同事在战后的头几十年里占据了大多数神经外科的领先位置。跨学科的合作对他来说很重要,尤其是与病理学家、放射科医生和神经科医生的合作。他无法与战前时期广泛的国际网络重新建立联系。然而,他与他在瑞典的老师Olivecrona、其他斯堪的纳维亚的同事以及来自意大利、东南欧和南美洲的学生保持着联系。该网络由他的临床和研究人员的描述和他的座谈会,他共同创立的Handbuch der Neurochirurgie(神经外科手册)的作者,以及神经外科杂志Zentralblatt fr Neurochirurgie和Acta neurochirurica的编辑来说明。Tönnis对战后几十年神经外科解放的重大影响变得显而易见。
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The Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A: Central European Neurosurgery (JNLS A) is a major publication from the world''s leading publisher in neurosurgery. JNLS A currently serves as the official organ of several national neurosurgery societies.
JNLS A is a peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles, and technical notes covering all aspects of neurological surgery. The focus of JNLS A includes microsurgery as well as the latest minimally invasive techniques, such as stereotactic-guided surgery, endoscopy, and endovascular procedures. JNLS A covers purely neurosurgical topics.