Adolf Jarisch junior

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Adolf Jarisch junior (born February 23, 1891 in Innsbruck ; † August 31, 1965 there ) was like his father Adolf Jarisch senior an Austrian physician and a world-famous researcher as a pharmacologist .

Life

Jarisch graduated after completing his school career a degree in medicine at the University of Innsbruck with a focus on pharmacology and received his doctorate in 1914 at the University of Graz Dr. med. Jarisch then did military service during the First World War .

From the beginning of February 1919 Jarisch worked at the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Graz, where he became assistant to Otto Loewi , who later won the Nobel Prize . Jarisch headed the Pharmacological Institute in Innsbruck from 1924. From 1930 to 1931 Jarisch worked briefly at the University of Düsseldorf before he returned to his post in Innsbruck.

Jarisch established pharmacology in Innsbruck and became professor and full professor there. A cardiogenic reflex still bears his name today. In 1937 he succeeded in experimental proof of the circulatory effect described by Albert von Bezold (1836–1868) in 1867 , which is now known as the Bezold-Jarisch reflex . In 1958 he retired . In 1940 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

During the Second World War , Jarisch also devoted himself to air force research and took part in the conference on medical issues in distress and winter death on October 26th and 27th, 1942 , where a lecture was also given on the "hypothermia experiments" in the Dachau concentration camp .

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Individual evidence

  1. Bezold-Jarisch reflex (www.whonamedit.com) .
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 284 f.

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