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Welcome to the
Adolf Lorenz Society's website,
whose objective is to conserve
and maintain Prof. Dr.
Adolf Lorenz' surgery rooms
as an original museum and memorial place.
Privy councillor Prof.
Dr. Adolf Lorenz, founder of
the German Society of Orthopaedics, lived, worked and researched
in Vienna. The surgery where
he examined and treated patients from all over the world at the turn of
the 20th Century has
been kept in its original state. This is due to a rare stroke of luck
that his oldest son Albert Lorenz, also
an orthopaedist, retained
the rooms as they were
and his widow Helga Lorenz then placed the surgery
to the Society's disposal.
In 1993 the Adolf Lorenz Society had a relief designed by the
sculptor Prof. Rudolf Friedl mounted
next to the portal of
Rathausstrasse 21 in memory
of Adolf and Albert
Lorenz, which was financed
by donations.
In 1997 the commemorative
publication
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"Adolf Lorenz 1854-1946, Stages of
a long-lived personality"
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was written
by Dr. Norbert Steingress.
Since then many
foreign visitors have visited the museum and
memorial. Meetings have been held there
and tours have also been made. The resources have been added
to by a wide selection of books, which
were placed at the Society's disposal by Prof. Dr. Lorenz
Böhler and which include all the relevant German
and English works from 1889.
In 2009 the 10th EFORT - Orthopaedic Congress is being held
in the Austria Centre in
Vienna from 3rd - 6th June. For this very
important deadline for orthopaedic science, the
Adolf-Lorenz-Society aims to
make the Lorenz memorial in the Rathausstrasse 21 tasteful for the congress
participants with a virtual tour and to then greet
them personally in the Lorenz Memorial during the Congress.
We have to thank the
supporting members for the conservation
of the Adolf Lorenz memorial and most of all Dr. Norbert Steingress, who is the initiator
and adviser of the Adolf and Albert Lorenz Memorial.
o.Univ.Prof. Dr. Rainer KOTZ
Chairman of the
Adolf-Lorenz-Society (1992 - 2009)
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