Adolf Loewy
Adolf Loewy (born June 29, 1862 in Berlin , † December 26, 1937 in Davos ) was a German physiologist .
Life
Adolf Loewy was born as the son of the Jewish businessman Leopold Loewy and his wife Rosalie, b. Waldenburg, born. He studied medicine in Berlin and Vienna and obtained his doctorate in medicine in Berlin in 1885. In 1886 he stayed in Vienna for physiological studies. He then worked with Nathan Zuntz at the Agricultural University in Berlin. In 1895, after his habilitation, he became a private lecturer in physiology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In the same year his habilitation thesis was awarded a prize by the Smithsonian Institution . In 1900 he was appointed professor. In addition, he practiced as a doctor.
During this time Loewy dealt extensively with altitude physiological studies, for which he also carried out simulations in the pneumatic cabinet of the Jewish hospital . As early as 1898, he refuted Angelo Mosso's view that altitude sickness was caused by a lack of carbon dioxide in the blood ( acapnia ). It was clear to him that only a lack of oxygen caused by the diluted air would be the cause. In 1901 he carried out six-week meticulous field studies with Nathan Zuntz at the international research station Capanna Regina Margherita on the Signalkuppe (4,554 m) in the Monte Rosa massif .
When the Swiss Institute for High Mountain Physiology and Tuberculosis Research was founded in 1922 on the initiative of the Davos medical profession , Loewy was offered the post of director. Under his leadership, the institute developed into an international center for altitude physiological and climatological research. Numerous visiting scholars worked temporarily at Loewy's institute.
Before he retired in 1933 at the age of 71, he published his summarizing work Physiology of the high altitude climate .
From 1925 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was an honorary member of the Budapest Medical Society, the Swiss Balneological Society, the Davos Medical Association and the Davos Natural Research Society.
After the National Socialists came to power , his license to teach in Germany was revoked in 1933.
Fonts (selection)
- About the influence of temperature on the filtration of protein solutions through animal membranes . Dissertation, Berlin 1885
- Investigations into respiration and circulation when the pressure and oxygen content of the air change . A. Hirschwald, Berlin 1895 (habilitation thesis)
- On the relation of acapnia to mountain sickness . In: Archive for Physiology , 1898, pp. 409-430
- with Hermann von Schrötter : Investigations into blood circulation in humans . In: Zschr. Exper. Path. 1, 1905, pp. 197-311
- with Nathan Zuntz, Franz Müller and Wilhelm Caspari: The effect of mountain climates and mountain hikes on people. Results of experimental research in the high mountains and in the laboratory . Publishing house Bong, Berlin 1906
- with Nathan Zuntz (ed.): Textbook of human physiology . FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1909
- Physiology of the high altitude climate . J. Springer, Berlin 1932
- Blood and circulation in the high mountains . In: Klinische Wochenschrift 13, 1934, pp. 545-549
literature
- Julius Pagel : Loewy, Adolf . In: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century , Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901, p. 1040
- Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years . Volume 2, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin [among others] 1933
- Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Degeners Who is it? . 10th edition, Degener, Berlin 1935
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925), Volume IV, p. 177
- Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists . Volume 2, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1996, ISBN 3-598-11196-7
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 6, Saur, Munich [ua] 1997, ISBN 3-598-23160-1
- Elisabeth Simons and Oswald Oelz: headache mountains. A history of high altitude medicine , AS Verlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-905111-59-4
Web links
- Works by and about Adolf Loewy in the German Digital Library
- Löwy, Adolf in the Jewish Encyclopedia (English)
- Portrait photo of Adolf Loewy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loewy, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1937 |
| Place of death | Davos |