Dankwart Ackermann

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Dankwart Otto Heinrich Emil Rudolf Ackermann (born November 11, 1878 in Halle an der Saale , † May 31, 1965 in Würzburg ) was a German physiologist and biochemist .

biography

Dankwart Ackermann was born as the son of the pathologist Theodor Ackermann . After attending grammar school in Halle (Saale), he studied medicine at the University of Kiel and from the summer semester of 1898 in Rostock , where he received his doctorate in 1902 under Friedrich Kutscher (1866–1942). He continued his studies at the universities of Munich and Freiburg and finally completed his habilitation in 1907 at the University of Marburg for physiology .

In 1908 he went to the University of Würzburg as a private lecturer and worked at the Institute of Maximilian von Frey . There he was appointed associate professor in 1922, and on January 16, 1929 full professor for physiological chemistry at the newly established Physiological-Chemical Institute (Röntgenring 9), which he headed until his retirement in 1953. In 1935 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

The focus of his scientific work was the research of the intermediate protein metabolism and the description of biogenic amines . In 1910 he was able to explain the biosynthesis of histamine from the amino acid histidine .

Together with Franz Knoop , he founded the German Physiological-Chemical Society in 1942 .

From 1945 to 1952 he was the only regular full professor of the Medical Faculty who had not been dismissed in 1945, alongside the pathologist Hermann Groll, and temporarily headed the Hereditary Biology Institute in Building 5 of the Würzburg Luitpold Hospital, which had emerged from the Institute for Hereditary Science and Race Research in Klinikstrasse 6 . He was a member of the university's administrative committee headed by Waldemar Schleip .

Ackermann was married to Marianne, the daughter of the physiologist Max von Frey .

Awards

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures , first volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, p. 5, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .
  • Holger Münzel: Max von Frey. Life and work with special consideration of his sensory-physiological research. Würzburg 1992 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Volume 53), p. 175 ( short biographies ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry (1) by Dankwart Ackermann in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  2. ^ Heinz Walter:  Kutscher, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 347 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Entry (2) by Dankwart Ackermann in the Rostock matriculation portal.
  4. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 197.
  5. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 6 f. and 21.
  6. ↑ Werner Wachsmuth : A life with the century. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1985. ISBN 3-540-15036-6 , pp. 160-165 (on D. Ackermann); here: p. 164.
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Dankwart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ackermann, Dankwart Otto Heinrich Emil Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1965
Place of death Wurzburg