Arthur Bornstein

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Arthur Bornstein (born April 14, 1881 in Berlin , † January 25, 1932 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German pharmacologist .

Life and academic education

Arthur Bornstein was born on April 14, 1881, the son of Jenny Bornstein. His mother was one of the first women to take a state examination in medicine in Marburg . Arthur Bornstein also studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Kiel University . There he did his doctorate with a "contribution to the teaching of the aneurysm of the abdominal aorta" and went from 1903 to 1905 to the Institute of Animal Physiology at the Agricultural University in Berlin under the direction of Nathan Zuntz . This was followed by positions as an assistant at the Psychiatric Clinic Basel , the Physiological Institute in Berlin and the University of Geneva . From 1907 to 1909 he worked in the metabolism laboratory of the psychiatric clinic in Göttingen under the direction of August Cramer , where he completed his habilitation in 1908 . In the same year he examined the influence of the maritime climate on tuberculosis diseases and wrote several papers and essays that dealt with metabolic physiology and the breathing of the mentally ill.

Work from 1909

At the beginning of 1909 Bornstein moved with his wife Olga Adele into an apartment near the construction site of the Hamburg Elbe Tunnel , where he was supposed to look after the workers charged with compressed air work as a "compressed air doctor" and to carry out scientific studies. His former teacher Zuntz had found the job after more than 200 workers suffered from diving disease within three months , which at the time was considered untreatable. The examinations carried out together with his wife made important contributions to the explanation of the bone destruction and were fundamental for the therapy of the disease by means of excess oxygen pressure.

After the construction work was completed, Bornstein took over the construction and management of the new chemical laboratory at St. Georg General Hospital in 1910 . During the First World War he worked as a doctor in Flanders , the Carpathian Mountains and on the front of the Isonzo battles . After returning to Hamburg in 1919 he became full professor of pharmacology at the newly opened university and in 1930/31 dean of the medical faculty. Here Bornstein researched mainly into hormone metabolism and carried out dangerous self-experiments with insulin preparations .

Together with the local spa administration, he founded a balneological research facility in Bad Oeynhausen in 1930/31 . Here he investigated the influence of baths on the human organism and in 1931 wrote a study entitled "Changes in sensory and motor excitability in baths".

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SURNAME Bornstein, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1932
Place of death Bad Oeynhausen