Carl Binz

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Carl Binz

Carl Binz (born July 1, 1832 in Bernkastel ; † January 11, 1913 in Bonn ) was a German pharmacologist and medical historian.

Life

From 1851 he studied at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität-Universität zu Berlin . In 1853 he became a member of the Corps Moenania Würzburg . He was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and licensed doctor in 1856 . He was then initially an assistant at the medical clinic in Bonn and from 1859 a general practitioner. He went to Berlin in 1861. In 1862 he qualified as a professor in Bonn for internal medicine and materia medica . Since 1868 associate professor , he founded the Pharmacological Institute in 1869 as professor of pharmacology, where he taught and researched as professor of pharmacology from 1873 to 1908. In 1885/86 he was the rector of the university.

Carl Binz significantly developed the experimental research methodology in pharmacology and presented fundamental studies on the fight against malaria . As a medical historian, he made a name for himself especially as the biographer Johann Weyers . In 1866 and 1870 he took part in the wars of German unification as a medical officer . In 1893 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . A street is named after him in his hometown of Bernkastel-Kues .

He was married to Harriet Emily Schwabe, who was related to William Makepeace Thackeray , one of the most important storytellers of the Victorian era alongside Charles Dickens . With Harriet Emily Schwabe he had a son, the chemist Arthur Binz (1868–1943).

Works

  • Experimental observations on the nature of the action of quinine , Berlin 1868.
  • Further studies on quinine. (Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, November 1871) , 1871.
  • Quinine according to the more recent pharmacological studies , 1876.
  • About the Dream (1878).
  • Fundamentals of pharmacology . Bonn 1866; 7th edition. Berlin: Hirschwald, 1881. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Fundamentals of pharmacology / a clinical textbook by C. Binz. - 10., revised Edition - Berlin: Hirschwald, 1889. Digitized edition of the University and State Library in Düsseldorf
  • La quinine prophylactique de la fièvre de la malaria By Binz, et al. (1890).
  • Doctor Johann Weyer , a Rhenish doctor, the first fighter against the witch madness. Bonn 1855 and 1896.
  • Augustin Lerchheimer and his writing against the witch craze . With A. Birlinger, Strasbourg 1888.
  • On the history of pharmacology in Germany. in: Klinisches Jahrbuch 2 (1890), 3-74.
  • The introduction of syphilis into Europe. German Medical Weekly 19 (1893), 1058-1059.
  • The ether against the pain. Stuttgart et al. 1896.
  • History of counting your pulse. in. German Medical Wochenschrift 24 (1898), 640-641.
  • Father P. Laymann SJ and the witch trials. in: HZ 49 (1900), 290-292.
  • Apologetic attempts in the historiography of the witch trials. in: Zeitschrift für Kulturgeschichte 8 (1901), 186–194.
  • Cardinal Cusa . An academic speech. in: Treatises of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland 58 (1902), 203–222. Digital edition 2012. Univ. Heidelberg
  • Afterwards about Valerius Cordus and the ethyl ether. in: Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie 28 (1904), 426-432.
  • On the characteristics of Cusanus. in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 7 (1909), 145–153. Digitized Univ. Heidelberg

See also

literature

  • Renate Bertling: The pharmacologist Carl Binz . Diss. Bonn 1969 (with detailed biography).
  • Julius Pagel : Binz, Karl , in: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century . Berlin and Vienna 1901, Sp. 179–181.
  • Hans Schulz: On Carl Binz's 70th birthdays . In: German Medical Weekly . tape 28 , no. 461 , 1902.
  • Johannes Steudel:  Binz, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 250 ( digitized version ).
  • Otto Wenig (Ed.): 150 Years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968 .
  • Ralf Vollmuth : Binz, Carl. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 182.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 141/335
personal data
SURNAME Binz, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernkastel
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1913
Place of death Bonn