Arnt Kohlrausch

Arnt Kohlrausch (born October 30, 1884 in Hanover , † July 13, 1969 in Tübingen ) was a German physiologist and worked as a professor of physiology at the universities of Berlin , Greifswald and Tübingen .

Life

Arnt Kohlrausch came from a well-known German family of scholars. His father was privy councilor Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch , professor for electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover .

After attending high school in Hanover , Kohlrausch studied medicine at the universities of Marburg , Munich and Rostock . In 1911 he received his doctorate and license.

In 1918 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin as a private lecturer in physiology. There he was appointed extraordinary professor in 1922 and associate professor in 1925 . He also became head of the physical and sensory physiology department of the Physiological Institute at Berlin University. A year later he went to Greifswald as full professor of physiology and institute director . From 1928 he worked on the chair for physiology in Tübingen. In 1951 Kohlrausch retired .

Arnt Kohlrausch was best known for his work on the metabolism of matter and energy, movement, sensation and brain activity. Among other things, he was concerned with the electrical phenomena in the human eye.

He was co-editor of the magazine "Die Farbe". In 1959 he became an honorary member of the German Physiological Society. He was also the holder of the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Kohlrausch's first marriage was to Else Wolff, with whom he had two children. His second marriage was to Doris von Horn.

literature

• International Biographical Archive 20/1970 from May 4, 1970

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Arnt Kohlrausch's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal