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Kurt Semm was born on 23 March, 1927 in Munich, Germany, is a German gynecologist (1927–2003). Discover Kurt Semm's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Occupation Gynecologist
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 23 March, 1927
Birthday 23 March
Birthplace Munich, Germany
Date of death 16 July, 2003
Died Place Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Nationality Germany

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1927

Kurt Karl Stephan Semm (23 March 1927 – 16 July 2003) was a German gynecologist and pioneer in minimally invasive surgery.

He has been called "the father of modern laparoscopy".

Semm was born to Margarete and Karl Semm in Munich where he attended the Realgymnasium.

At the end of World War II he was drafted for the Wehrmacht at the age of 16 and became briefly a Soviet prisoner of war.

1946

Upon his return he worked as a toolmaker, before, in 1946, he was able to begin his medical studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

1951

He received his MD degree in 1951 and worked at the II.

Universitäts-Frauenklinik München.

1957

In 1957, Fikentscher, Semm and three other physicians founded of the Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Studium der Fertilität und Sterilität, renamed Deutsche Gesellschaft für Reproduktionsmedizin in 1998.

1958

After his habilitation in 1958 he worked at the Frauenklinik Lindenstrasse.

1959

His experience as toolmaker let him to found the WISAP medical instrument company in 1959 allowing him to developed numerous instruments among them an automated electronic insufflator, uterine manipulators, thermocoagulators to stop bleeding, and extra- and intracorporeal endoscopic knotting devices to tie off vessels or remove organs.

When Semm introduced laparoscopic surgery at the University of Kiel, he had to undergo a brain scan at the request of coworkers as “only a person with Brain Damage would perform such laparoscopic surgery”.

1960

In the 1960s Semm started to use laparoscopy – he named it ‘’pelviscopy’’ - for gynecologic indications, initially as a diagnostic tool, but soon realizing that the laparoscopic approach had potential for interventive surgery.

1964

In 1964, the university named him Professor and he returned to the II.

Universitäts-Frauenklinik.

1970

In 1970 Semm was named Director of the Gynecologic Services of the University of Kiel.

During the 1970s Semm pioneered numerous gynecologic laparoscopic operations so that the end of the decade he had performed myomectomies, ovariectomies, ovarian cysts resections, removals of tubal pregnancy, and others.

1980

On 13 September 1980 Semm performed the first laparoscopic appendectomy opening up the path for a much wider application of minimally invasive surgery.

At first, his operation was severely criticized.

Initial attempts to publish it were rejected, and the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology indicated that his technique was “unethical”.

The president of the German Surgical Society demanded that Semm should be suspended from medical practice.

But Semm was tireless in advocating his techniques and gradually got some surgeons interested.

1985

In 1985 Erich Mühe showed that Semm’s laparoscopic approach could be applied for cholecystectomy, and it became the gold standard within a decade and remains so.

With the acceptance by general surgery, minimally invasive surgery expanded its applications.

Semm produced over 700 publications and spoke at over 1,300 national or international meetings and conventions.

He made over 1,000 improvements to instruments.

1986

His first wife, Roswitha, died in 1986 from breast cancer.

1994

In 1994 he married Iseult O’Neill.

They have two children.

Richard Fikentscher got Semm interested in the treatment of infertility.

1995

Semm retired in 1995 and moved to Tucson, Arizona.

He died from complications of Parkinson’s disease.

Semm was married twice.