Emil Ponfick

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Emil Ponfick

(Klemens) Emil Ponfick (born November 3, 1844 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 3, 1913 in Breslau ) was a German pathologist .

Life

Ponfick studied medicine at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . To the Dr. med. He received his doctorate in 1867 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he was assistant to Karl Otto Weber . He then became assistant to Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen in Würzburg and from 1868 to 1873 to Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological Institute in Berlin .

He received his first full professorship (for pathological anatomy) at the University of Rostock in 1873 as the successor to Theodor Ackermann . In 1876 he moved to the Georg August University of Göttingen as a full professor . In 1878 he inherited Julius Friedrich Cohnheim as full professor and director of the Pathological-Anatomical Institute of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Breslau . In 1890 Ponfick was appointed a secret medical councilor. In 1892/93 he was rector of the University of Breslau. He held this position until his death in 1913.

In 1904 Ponfick was chairman of the 7th meeting of the German Pathological Society in Berlin and the 8th meeting in Breslau. In 1880 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His son was the lawyer Hans Ponfick (1883-1946).

Researches

Ponfick was best known for his pioneering research on actinomycosis and the knowledge that actinomycetes (Actinomycetaceae) play the decisive role. In 1882 he published the analysis Actinomycosis in Humans, a New Infectious Disease .

In 1874, Ponfick warned of the dangers of animal-to-human blood transfusions . The reason was the death of a patient who had received blood from a sheep. The following year his concerns were confirmed by statistical data from Leonard Landois at the University of Greifswald .

Fonts

  • About the pathological-anatomical changes in the internal organs in fatal erysipelas. Inaugural dissertation, Heidelberg 1867.
  • Anatomical studies of typhoid fever .
  • Experimental contributions to the teaching of transfusion .
  • About the changes in the lamb's blood in the human organism .
  • About the sudden deaths from severe burns .
  • Handbook of the diseases of the chylopoietic apparatus II. The diseases of the liver . Edited by E. Ponfick, Th. Thierfelder, O. Schüppel, O. Leichtenstern, A. Heller: 1878
  • About actinomycosis . Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift, 1880, 17: 660–661.
  • Actinomycosis in humans, a new infectious disease . Berlin, 1882.
  • About the public danger of the edible morel.
  • Experimental contributions to the pathology of the liver.
  • About Recreations of the Liver in Humans.
  • About the nature of illness and the ways of healing. Rector's speech, 1892.
  • About metastases and their healing.
  • About fat necrosis of the pancreas.
  • About the purulent diseases of the middle ear in early childhood.
  • On the doctrine of myxedema.
  • Via placenta previa caervicalis.
  • Myxedema and hypophysis.
  • Topographic atlas of medical-surgical diagnostics. Jena, 1901.
  • Pathological-anatomical institute. Festschrift to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the University of Wroclaw, 1911.
  • The pathological-anatomical institute. Health and welfare care of the royal capital and residence city of Wroclaw. New edition of the Festschrift, 1912.
  • Studies on exudative kidney inflammation. Text and Atlas. Jena, 1914.

literature

  • Eduard Kaufmann: Emil Ponfick . In: Munich medical weekly . Volume 60, 1913, pp. 2843-2844.
  • Julius Pagel : Ponfick, Emil . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, col. 1312-1313.
  • Michael Sachs: Ponfick, Emil. 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. 1175.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  2. ↑ Ponfick, Emil
  3. ^ Member entry by Emil Ponfick at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Ponfick, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponfick, Klemens Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist; University professor and rector in Wroclaw
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1913
Place of death Wroclaw