Andreas Oksche

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Andreas Oksche (born July 27, 1926 in Riga ; † January 23, 2017 in Gießen ) was a German anatomist and neuroscientist and from 1964 to 1994 professor at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen .

Life

Oksche came to Hesse via Bavaria in 1944. In 1952 he finished his studies in medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and did his doctorate under Alfred Benninghoff with a thesis on the fine structure and the function of the organon frontale of the common frog . With a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Oksche worked with Ernst and Berta Scharrer at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City . In 1960 he completed his habilitation in Marburg with the thesis The participation of the Neuroglia in secretory services and metabolic processes of the CNS with special consideration of the sub-commissural organ . Oksche then worked with Wolfgang Ludwig Bargmann at the University of Kiel , before becoming full professor of anatomy at the University of Gießen in 1964 . In 1994 Oksche retired .

Act

Oksche was one of the pioneers of neuroendocrinology in the German-speaking area. He refined the structure elucidation of the neurosecretory cells of the epiphysis , the hypothalamus and the subcommissural organ using electron microscopy . While searching for the central nervous control mechanisms of the internal clock , Oksche found photoreceptors in cells of the pineal organ of amphibians, reptiles and birds and called these cells photoneuroendocrine cells .

Oksche was one of the editors of the scientific journal Cell and Tissue Research , the English-language successor to the German-language journal for cell research and microscopic anatomy .

He was also a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Primate Center in Göttingen and from 1992 to 1998 Senator for Anatomy of the Leopoldina .

Awards (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Oksche: Obituary notice. Retrieved January 28, 2017 . In: FAZ.net
  2. ↑ Member entry of Andreas Oksche at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ Volker Zimmermann: 'Bringing a Medicinische Facultät in Flor': On the history of the medical faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940344-98-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Cothenius Medal at the Leopoldina (leopoldina.org); Retrieved September 22, 2012
  5. ↑ Henning M. Beier: Laudation on the occasion of the award of the Von Behring-Röntgen Research Medal to Prof. Dr. med. Dr. hc mult. Andreas Oksche (PDF, 22 kB) at the Emil von Behring and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Foundation (br-stiftung.de); Retrieved September 22, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Oksche, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH 23rd January 2017
Place of death to water