Adolf Basler

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Adolf Basler (born May 13, 1878 in Offenburg , † January 21, 1945 in Görlitz ) was a German doctor and university professor. Most recently, he was the director of the Labor Physiology Laboratory at the University of Wroclaw .

Life

Basler was the son of the physician and practicing physician Wilhelm Basler and his wife Theresia nee Armbruster. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was one of his ancestors . After attending grammar school in Offenburg, he studied medicine at the University of Tübingen from 1897 and later moved to the universities in Munich and Leipzig . In 1902 he passed the medical state examination and received his doctorate in autumn 1902 Dr. med. After Adolf Basler was still studying mathematics for a year in Munich, he started working in the Physiological Institute at Leipzig University from 1904 . In 1906 he completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen, where he worked as a doctor in a reserve hospital during the First World War . In 1924 he was involved in founding a race biology institute in Tübingen. From 1927 to 1933 he was a professor of physiology in Guangdong , China . During this time he was also the head of the Physiological Institute at the Sun Yat-sen University of Guandong, founded in 1924 . He then returned to Germany and was director of the Laboratory for Occupational Physiology at the University of Breslau . Adolf Basler was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1932 . He died on the run from the advancing Red Army in Görlitz in January 1945.

family

In March 1913 he married Alice Stoeber, daughter of a factory owner, in Fürth .

Fonts (selection)

Adolf Basler devoted himself to various areas of physiology. For example, he had an ochrometer made for determining blood levels in capillaries and a light guide for examining internal organs, and perfected saccharometers. His most important publications include:

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