Erasmus Behm

Erasmus Behm (born September 27, 1939 in Gorlosen ; † June 25, 2007 in Nienhagen ) was a German internist and pharmacist . He taught at the University of Rostock .

Life

Erasmus Behm's parents were the pastor Ernst-August Behm and his wife Lotte, née Lakowitz. From 1946 he attended a primary school in Gorlosen , then a high school , and also from 1954 in Schwerin . He passed his Abitur there in 1958 , after which he completed an apprenticeship as a cutting machine operator in a local industrial company . He finished his apprenticeship in 1959 and was matriculated at the University of Rostock to study human medicine. After he had completed his studies with the state examination in 1965 and received his license to practice medicine , the university hired him as a compulsory assistant. In 1966 he became a scientific assistant at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry there . The following year he became a doctor of medicine doctorate . His dissertation was called The vitamin B 6 balance of the child's organism during febrile respiratory infections .

In 1970, Behm was recognized as a specialist in biochemistry . In 1973 he gave up his position at the Rostock Institute and went to the local clinic for internal medicine. Since then he has trained as an internist there. Finally, in 1979 he was recognized as a specialist in internal medicine, followed in 1984 by specialist certification for immunology .

Behm received his qualification to teach internal medicine in 1986 and received his habilitation for this subject on October 25, 1990 in Rostock . His paper was entitled Contributions to the research and development of selective adsorbents for immunoglobulins, complement components and lipoproteins of low density in human blood plasma . In 1994 he was hired by the pharmaceutical company Immuno, then he worked for Baxter International . At the companies he managed pharmaceutical centers.

In addition to the pharmaceutical industry, Behm worked at the Rostock University at that time, where he lectured as a private lecturer . In 1997 the Faculty of Medicine finally hired him as an adjunct professor .

On October 1, 2004, Behm retired . Until this year he worked in the pharmaceutical industry and at the university. He died in Nienhagen in 2007 at the age of 67.

Works

• The vitamin B 6 balance of the child's organism during febrile infections of the respiratory tract (Dissertation, 1967)
• Contribution to the research and development of selective adsorbents for immunoglobulins, complement components and lipoproteins of low density in human blood plasma (habilitation thesis, 1990)

Act

Behm set up clinical and immunological laboratories at the Rostock Clinic for Internal Medicine, and he acted as head of these laboratories. The laboratories dealt with the diagnosis of humoral immunodeficiencies, with autoimmune diseases and allergies. In the period after 1980 he researched adsorbents for immunoglobulins , then with blood lipids. He discovered the selective LDL-binding properties of pearl cellulose .

Web links

• Literature by Erasmus Behm in the catalog of the German National Library

• Entry on Erasmus Behm in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium