Artur Biedl (doctor)
Artur Biedl (born October 4, 1869 in Easter , Banat , today Romania ; † August 26, 1933 in Weißenbach am Attersee ; also: Arthur Biedl ) was an Austrian pathologist , physiologist and endocrinologist .
Life
Artur Biedl studied at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. From 1893 he worked at Salomon Stricker as an assistant for general and experimental pathology; In 1896 he received his habilitation in this subject. From 1898 to 1900, Biedl was sub-director at the Institute for General and Experimental Pathology at the University of Vienna under Philipp Knoll and Richard Paltauf ; in 1899 he was appointed associate professor and in 1902 full professor. His Inner Secretion , first published in 1910 , was reprinted several times, translated into English in 1912 and was the standard work in the field of endocrinology until after the Second World War.
In 1913, succeeding Ewald Hering , Biedl was offered the management of the Institute for Experimental Pathology at the German University in Prague, which he then headed from 1914 to 1933. De iure he was also head of the propaedeutic clinic, but de facto he left the management to the cardiologist Julius Rihl . In 1918/19 and 1928/29 he was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Prague. His students included u. a. Hans Selye .
The Biedl-Bardet syndrome was named after him.
He was married to Elisabeth Biedl, geb. Biach (* 1882), who perished in the Litzmannstadt ghetto in 1942 . Her son was the classical philologist Artur Biedl (1904–1950).
Publications (selection)
- Internal secretion. Their physiological foundations and their significance for pathology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1910.
- Physiology and pathology of the pituitary gland . Bergmann, Munich / Wiesbaden 1922.
literature
- Death of the Prague pathologist Biedl. In: Neue Freie Presse , August 27, 1933, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
- Artur Biedl . In: Wiener Medical Wochenschrift 83, 1933, pp. 1078–1979 ( digitized version )
- János Kenéz: Arthur Biedl (1869–1933) and internal secretion . In: Medical monthly 24, 1970, pp. 259-262.
- Stefan Kriwanek, Gabriela Schmidt: Arthur Biedl and the beginnings of modern endocrinology. On the 125th birthday of the Austrian pathophysiologist . In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 107, 1995, pp. 373–377.
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 119.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biedl, Artur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Biedl, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian pathologist, physiologist and endocrinologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Easter , Banat , today Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1933 |
| Place of death | Weißenbach am Attersee |