Hans-Werner Altmann

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Hans-Werner Altmann (born June 7, 1916 in Herford ; † July 31, 2011 in Würzburg ) was a German pathologist .

Life

Altmann, born in Herford in 1916, studied medicine in Berlin , Würzburg , Freiburg im Breisgau and Königsberg . In Freiburg he received his doctorate from the pathologist Franz Büchner . As part of his dissertation, he recognized the parafollicular C cells as part of the neuroendocrine system . Altmann completed his habilitation in Freiburg and then worked at the Technical University of Berlin , from 1952 as a full professor until he was appointed to the chair of pathology at the University of Würzburg in 1959 . In 1976 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina for his fundamental work on the causation of lung cancer by radioactive substances .

His services include the introduction of modern cell biochemistry in the context of pathology. In the case of illnesses, for example, he established the principle of basically similar reactions in all cells. He also recognized the cell biological principle of autophagocytosis under light microscopy , coined the term “ lysigenic space” with regard to the cytoplasm and introduced the term “pathobiosis”, created in 1922 by the pharmacologist Wolfgang Heubner , into pathology.

Hans-Werner Altmann died on July 31, 2011 at the age of 95.

Awards

Works

  • The parafollicular cell of the thyroid and its relationship to the yellow cell of the intestine , in: Contributions to pathological anatomy and general pathology , Volume 104.1940, Issue 3, pp. 421–454 (also dissertation Univ. Freiburg 1940)
  • About liver changes in the case of general oxygen deficiency after negative pressure experiments on cats , in: Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Pathologie , Volume 60, Issue 3/4, 1949, pp. 377-494 (also Habilitation Univ. Freiburg 1947)
  • General morphological pathology of the cytoplasm. The pathobioses. In: F. Büchner, E. Letterer, F. Roulet (eds.): Handbook of general pathology. , Volume II, Part 1, Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1955, pp. 419–612.
  • (with Werner Hunstein and Ernst Stutz): On lung changes and lung tumors in rats after irradiation with radioactive strontium (Sr 90) , in: Contributions to Pathological Anatomy and General Pathology , Volume 124, 1961, pp. 145-175
  • (with R. Lick and Ernst Stutz): On the histogenesis of radiation induced (Sr90) pavement epithelium carcinoma in the rat lung , in: Contributions to Pathological Anatomy and General Pathology , Volume 125, 1961, pp. 403-444
  • (with R. Lick and Ernst Stutz): The effect of long-term radioactive strontium (Sr 90) irradiation on the rat kidney , in: Contributions to Pathological Anatomy and General Pathology , Volume 127, 1962, pp. 79–110
  • Contributions in: Textbook of special pathology , ed. v. Franz Büchner , 6th edition 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Thoenes: “An artist in eliciting”. Laudation for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hans-Werner Altmann on his 70th birthday. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 347-355, here: pp. 348-350.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Thoenes: “An artist in eliciting”. Laudation for Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Hans-Werner Altmann on his 70th birthday. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 5, 1987, pp. 347-355, here: pp. 348-352.
  3. ^ Deceased members: Hans-Werner Altmann at Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences, Personalia 04/2011, page 18 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
  4. ^ Hans-Werner Altmann, in German Society for Pathology, Rudolf Virchow Medal 1991
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Hans-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2011
Place of death Wurzburg