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Electrocardiography/history , Pre-Excitation Syndromes/history , Animals , Bundle-Branch Block/diagnosis , Bundle-Branch Block/history , History, 20th Century , Humans , Pre-Excitation Syndromes/diagnosis , Tachycardia, Paroxysmal/diagnosis , Tachycardia, Paroxysmal/history , Vagus Nerve/physiopathologySubject(s)
Bundle-Branch Block/history , Electrocardiography/history , Pre-Excitation Syndromes/history , Tachycardia, Paroxysmal/history , Animals , Anti-Arrhythmia Agents/history , Anti-Arrhythmia Agents/therapeutic use , Atropine/history , Atropine/therapeutic use , Bundle-Branch Block/diagnosis , History, 20th Century , Humans , Pre-Excitation Syndromes/diagnosis , Tachycardia, Paroxysmal/diagnosis , Vagus Nerve/physiopathologySubject(s)
Arrhythmias, Cardiac/surgery , Arrhythmias, Cardiac/history , Arrhythmias, Cardiac/therapy , Atrial Fibrillation/history , Atrial Fibrillation/surgery , Heart Aneurysm/history , Heart Aneurysm/surgery , History, 20th Century , Humans , Tachycardia, Ectopic Atrial/history , Tachycardia, Ectopic Atrial/surgery , Tachycardia, Paroxysmal/history , Tachycardia, Paroxysmal/surgery , Tachycardia, Sinoatrial Nodal Reentry/history , Tachycardia, Sinoatrial Nodal Reentry/surgery , Tachycardia, Ventricular/history , Tachycardia, Ventricular/surgery , Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome/history , Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome/surgeryABSTRACT
August Hoffmann was born in Münster on 2 June 1862. In 1891 he set up his medical practice in Düsseldorf as specialist for internal medicine and neurology. There in 1907 he became first professor in ordinary for internal medicine when the Academy for Practical Medicine was founded. Up to 1927 he was head of the medical clinic. On 17 February 1929 he died in Düsseldorf. At first Hoffmann used the X-rays which were discovered in 1895 for the heart diagnostics, above all for the determination of the size of the heart. A general notoriety he obtained by publication of the monography about the paroxysmal tachycardia (type Bouveret-Hoffmann) in 1900. After the preliminary works of Einthoven he belonged to the first German clinicians who dealt with electrocardiography (above all problems of arrhythmia). In 1914 he published the second ECG-book in German language. Hoffmann founded the Düsseldorf cardiologic tradition.
