Emil Sebastian (* 6 November 1919 in Furth in the forest; "† 28 June 2001 in Berlin) was a German scientist and heart surgeon. It is considered as a pioneer of the German art heart research, as well as the technology of the Organtransplantation.

studied medicine in Munich, Rome and Heidelberg starting from 1938. At the university Heidelberg took place 1944 the graduation, 1955 habilitierte it after study stays with American and European heart surgeons at the University of Goettingen, where it was active as an assistant at the surgical hospital and at physiological Institut. The topic of its Habilitationsschrift read "“over an artificial heart lung system"”.

1957 he came as an upper physician to the clinical center westends to the free University of Berlin (FU), became 1962 unscheduled professor and was there up to his change to citizens of Berlin the urban hospital in the year 1964 kommissarischer director/conductor of the surgical hospital. there 1969 turned back to the FU and received the chair for surgery, where it was active up to its retirement 1988.

With a multiplicity of first operations in the field of the transplant ion medicine and substitution of human organs the name Emil is connected: it operated 1957 as the first in Germany at the open heart, under employment at that time of the again developed heart lung machine. 1963 it accomplished the first Nierentransplantation, took some years later first and for is enough time only Lungentransplantation (1968) in Germany before and accomplished after Christiaan barn pool of broadcasting corporations world-wide one of the first heart transplant ions (1969).

An important emphasis of its research work was the development of an artificial heart. In its 1974 furnished heart-surgical research department he presented 1976 to the public a calf, which lived more than 100 days with an artificial heart. 1979 implantiert as citizens of Berlin the art heart admits become organ to humans and served at short notice for the support of its Blutkreislaufes. Its invention had not the purpose to replace human organs durably but should only the waiting period of a patient on a transplantierbares donor heart bridge and thus a surviving of the heart patient surely in this time place. 1986 it used that far developed and improved citizens of Berlin art heart with three patients with short and/or success of several weeks. Its research applied however not only art heart, but also for the artificial bronchial tube and esophagus. Relevant was also its advancement of the implantierbaren cardiac pacemaker.

died at the late sequences of a car accident. For its scientific achievements it was appreciated among other things 1976 with of the citizens of Berlin seriousness Reuter plaque, 1984 with the large Distinguished Service Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany and 1985 with the award of the Targa Europea. Also in the high number of publications - nearly 400 publications and Monografien - its active research work is reflected again. The German cardiology center Berlin, today on the Campus of the Virchow clinical center of the settled, went 1986 out of its 1974 created "“research house"” in the clinical center westends out. His colleague Professor Dr. Roland Hetzer continues there today as a medical director his work.

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