Biography

Born in Prague

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, and raised in a German family in Bohemia

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 (which at the time was part of the Habsburg

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 monarchy), he served as a medical officer in the First World War. After the War, he became a professor of the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague and Director of the Kinderklinik (children's clinic). In 1946 he was forced to leave Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 for Austria

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, where he lived until his death. He was the younger brother of Karl Hilgenreiner, a theologian and politician, also professor at Charles University. He is the grandfather of the Austrian artist Gerhard Gleich

Gerhard Gleich

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. He died in 1954 in Spillern

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, Austria

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.

Work

As a professor at the Karls-Universität in Prag, he became a specialist on the diagnosis and cure of congenital luxation of the hip joint in infants and young children. "Hilgenreiner's line" (in German: Hilgenreiners Hilfslinien; Hilgenreiners Beckenskiagramm) is a system of lines drawn on an x-ray used for the diagnosis of this condition.

Literature

Heinrich Hilgenreiner (1935) "Die angeborene Dysplasie der Hüfte: 10 Jahre Abduktionsschiene und Frühbehandlung der angeborenen Hüftverrenkung" Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie einschliesslich Heilgymnastik und Massage, Stuttgart, 63: 344-483.

External links

• http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2150.html