Adolf Weil (physician)

Adolf Weil, around 1886

Adolf Weil (born February 7, 1848 in Heidelberg , † July 23, 1916 in Wiesbaden ) was a German pathologist and internist .

life and work

Adolf Weil, son of the orientalist Gustav Weil and his wife Auguste (née Levy), studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the University of Vienna . In 1871 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg , and the following year he qualified as a professor . Weil became an associate professor at Heidelberg University in 1876. In 1886 he followed a call to the University of Dorpat (full professorship for special pathology and therapy), but had to give up teaching a year later because of larynx tuberculosis. After working in several seaside resorts, he worked as a resident doctor and consultant in Wiesbaden from 1893 .

In 1886, Weil first described the severe form of leptospirosis, which was named after him as Weil's disease .

Honors

In 1883 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Publications (selection)

• Auscultation of the arteries and veins . Vogel, Leipzig 1875.
• Handbook and Atlas of Topographical Percussion . Vogel, Leipzig 1877.
• About a peculiar acute infectious disease associated with spleen swelling, jaundice and nephritis. In: German Archive for Clinical Medicine. Year 1886, p. 209.

literature

• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . 1st edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-540-15856-1 , pp. 290 .
• Gordon Cook: Tropical Medicine. An Illustrated History of The Pioneers . Academic, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0-12-373991-9 , pp. 236 f.
• Werner Köhler : Weil's disease. In: Werner E. Gerabek u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1470.
• Hanns Hippius , Gerd Peters , Detlev Ploog (eds.): Emil Kraepelin: Memories. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1983, ISBN 978-3-662-00848-5 , p. 249 ( Weil, Adolf. )

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . 1st edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-540-15856-1 , pp. 290 .
2. ↑ Adolf Weil: Obtaining enlarged larynx mirror images . Heidelberg 1872. (Habilitation thesis)
3. ^ Julius Pagel : Because, Adolf . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp.  1826–1827 .
4. ↑ Adolf Weil: About a peculiar acute infectious disease associated with spleen swelling, jaundice and nephritis. In: German Archive for Clinical Medicine. Year 1886, p. 209.
5. ↑ Member entry of Adolf Weil at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 4, 2018.