Carl Friedrich Funk

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Carl Friedrich Funk (born January 27, 1897 in Nuremberg , † October 29, 1985 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German dermatologist and university professor.

Life

Funk studied medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University and in 1923 became a member of the Corps Rhenania Erlangen . 1924 Dr. med. after receiving his doctorate , he began his training in pathology in Erlangen with Gustav Hauser and in internal medicine in Nuremberg and with Ernst Zapel , who headed the tuberculosis department of the Berlin-Spandau hospital. In 1927 he went to Georg Arndt (1874–1929) in the dermatology clinic of the Berlin Charité . In 1928 he was appointed senior physician to the Rudolf Virchow Hospital by Heinrich Löhe . There he headed the serological laboratory. As a consultant for the main municipal health office, he published the results of the infection source research that he inaugurated . Habilitated since 1936 , he was appointed adjunct professor for dermatology in 1940 .

He found his big task in 1930 when he became chief physician at the newly established lupus healing center in Müncheberg . He established a powerful light therapy and modern surgical facilities. As the head of “corrective dermatology”, he made his nose and ear prosthetics the international standard in aesthetic medicine.

After the sanatorium in Müncheberg in Brandenburg was destroyed at the end of the war, Funk became the doctor in charge of the dermatology clinic in the Regensburg City Hospital, which was initially set up in old barracks. He initiated the East Bavarian dermatologist conferences and the congress of the German Society for Aesthetic Medicine and its border areas in Regensburg .

Scientifically, it dealt mainly with the types and the virulence of tubercle bacilli in lupus vulgaris , with the problem of lupus fight, the dietary treatment of skin tuberculosis and sarcoidosis . In Regensburg alone there were 56 dermatological publications.

He retired in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Honorary positions

  • Specialist advisor for skin tuberculosis at the Upper Palatinate government
  • Member of the Central Committee to Combat Tuberculosis

literature

  • HC Friederich: Prof. Dr. med. Carl Friedrich Funk on his 70th birthday . Aesthetic Medicine 13 (1967), p. 1 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 128/171.
personal data
SURNAME Funk, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1985
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen