Erich Grafe

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Erich Grafe (born February 24, 1881 in Berlin ; † May 16, 1958 in Florence ) was a German physician ( internal medicine ) and professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Grafe passed his Abitur in Bonn in 1899 and studied medicine and natural sciences in Kiel, Heidelberg, Bonn and Berlin. In between he did his one-year voluntary military service in 1901/02. In 1904 he received his doctorate from the University of Bonn ( The Urnieren-Portal Vein in the chicken embryo ). After an internship at the University Clinic in Bonn, he became an assistant at the Physiological Institute in 1905 and, from 1906, at the Hygiene Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1907 he became an assistant at the Heidelberg University Clinic, where he completed his habilitation in 1910 ( contributions to the knowledge of metabolism in protracted hunger states ) and in 1916 became an associate professor. After participating in the First World War (1914/15 and 1918, most recently as a ward doctor in the nervous department of the Heidelberg Reserve Hospital), he became associate professor at the University of Rostock in 1921 and full professor in 1923 and full professor for internal medicine at the University of Würzburg in 1926 and director of the medical clinic and psychiatric clinic. Dismissed in 1945, he was again professor in Würzburg in 1948 until his retirement in 1952. His successor was Ernst Wollheim, who had returned to Germany from Sweden .

He dealt with the metabolism and metabolic diseases (protein metabolism, diabetes, obesity). In 1955 he worked on the manual of internal medicine (4th edition, volume 7).

In 1956 he received the Rinecker Medal from the University of Würzburg and became an honorary member of the German Society for Internal Medicine. Around 1951 he received an honorary doctorate in Rostock.

Fonts

  • The pathological physiology of total metabolism and strength changes in human nutrition, Munich, JF Bergmann 1923
  • with JH Otto-Martiensen: Hygiene of the lungs in healthy and sick conditions, Health Care Library 8a, Stuttgart 1925
  • Internal secretion and circulation apparatus, collection of informal treatises from the field of digestive and metabolic diseases, Volume 10, Issue 2, Halle 1927
  • The diseases of the metabolism and their treatment, Springer 1931

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data according to professor catalog Rostock, see web links. According to GND, died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
personal data
SURNAME Count, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1958
Place of death Florence