Eduard Pflüger

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (born June 7, 1829 in Hanau , † March 16, 1910 in Bonn ) was an important German physiologist .

Life

Eduard Pflüger

Pflüger began studying politics in Heidelberg in 1849 and turned to medicine in 1850, which he did in Marburg , where he wrote a dissertation on the psychological functions of the spinal cord in frogs in 1851 ( De functionibus medullae oblongatae et spinalis psychicis. Dissertation Gießen, published in Berlin 1851) and studied in Berlin , where he was a student of the physiologists Johannes Müller and Emil Du Bois-Reymond and in 1853 wrote another doctoral thesis on the inhibitory nervous system for the peristaltic movements of the intestines (published in Berlin, by A. Hirschwald, 1857) and thus on December 14, 1855 (with the dissertation title De nervorum splanchnicorum functione ) was awarded his doctorate. In Berlin he worked as an assistant to Emil Du Bois-Reymond and completed his habilitation in physiology in 1858 . As early as 1859 he received a call as a full professor to the new chair for physiology at Bonn University, where he was rector from 1889 to 1890.

In 1868, Pflüger founded the journal “Archive for the Entire Physiology of Man and Animals” (today: Pflüger's Archive - European Journal of Physiology ).

In Bonn he was also appointed as a secret medical councilor .

One of his students became Nathan Zuntz , later a famous physiologist himself.

In 1877, Pflüger published his work describing a biological control loop with feedback based on the pupillary reflex. Numerous other publications followed, in which he mainly dealt with the sensory functions of the spinal cord, respiratory physiology and electrotonus. The “ Pfluger Zuckungsgesetz ” is named after him.

In 1878 he moved to the newly built physiological institute in Poppelsdorf. Because of his special achievements in the area of the function of the nerves and cells has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize since 1902.

Honors

Since 1909 Eduard Pflüger was an honorary citizen of the city of Bonn and holder of the order Pour le Mérite for sciences and arts . In 1872 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1873 he was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Since 1888 he was a foreign member of the Royal Society , since 1894 a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and since 1905 an honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Scientific work

De functionibus medullae oblongatae et spinalis psychicis. Medical dissertation Giessen 1851.
The sensory functions of the vertebrate spinal cord. In addition to a new teaching on the governance laws of reflections. Hirschwald, Berlin 1853. ( Digitized and full text in the German text archive )
De nervorum planchnicorum functione. Medical dissertation Berlin, 1855.
The inhibitory nervous system for the peristaltic movement of the intestines. Berlin, 1857.
Experimental contribution to the theory of the inhibitory nerves . In: Archives for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine . 1859, pp. 13-29
About a new reagent to represent the axis cylinder . In: Archives for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine . 1859, p. 132
On the cause of the tetanus of the opening . In: Archives for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine . 1859, pp. 133-148
On the movements of the ovaries . In: Archives for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine . 1859, pp. 30-32
Remarks on the physiology of the central nervous system . In: Archives for the entire physiology of humans and animals . Volume 15, 1877, pp. 150-152
Psychiatry textbook for doctors and students . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1883
Neurasthenia (weak nerves), its nature, its meaning and treatment from the anatomical-physiological point of view for doctors and students . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1885

literature

Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 1: A - Q. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 .
Werner E. Gerabek : Pflüger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 356 ( digitized version ).
Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03159-2 .
Julius Pagel (Ed.): Pflueger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Biographisches Lexikon outstanding doctors of the 19th century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin et al. 1901

Web links

Literature by and about Eduard Pflüger in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (English)

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Ermann: Directory of the Berlin University Writings 1810–1885. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1973, p. 363, no.03030.
^ Michael Hagner : Pflüger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm. 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. 1142.
↑ Nominations on nobelprize.org
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 189.

personal data
SURNAME	Pflüger, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pflüger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanau
DATE OF DEATH	March 16, 1910
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Wilhelm Ermann: Directory of the Berlin University Writings 1810–1885. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1973, p. 363, no.03030.

[2] Michael Hagner : Pflüger, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm. 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. 1142.

[3] Nominations on nobelprize.org

[4] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 189.