Ernst Fischer (doctor)

Ernst Fischer (born September 27, 1896 in Breslau , † February 7, 1981 in Richmond , Virginia ) was a German-American physiologist .

Life

A native of Wroclaw Ernst Fischer - he was Jewish faith - turned to the put- High School a study of medicine at the universities of Frankfurt and Göttingen to he 1924 in Frankfurt with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. After working at Göttingen University Hospital, he joined in the same year to an assistant position at the Institute of animal physiology at the University of Frankfurt, where he was to study abroad in London and Naples in 1928 as Associate Professor of Physiology habilitated .

Ernst Fischer , who was dismissed from university in 1933 because of his Jewish beliefs, emigrated to the United States via the United Kingdom in 1934 , where he received an associate professorship in physiology at the University of Rochester in the same year . In 1944 he followed the call to the professorship of physiology at Virginia Commonwealth University , which he held until 1966. Most recently, he held a professorship for the same subject from 1968 to 1972 at Union University in Schenectady . In addition, he held visiting professorships at Frankfurt University from 1969 to 1966 and at Hacettepe University from 1966 to 1967.

Ernst Fischer, who was admitted to the Virginia Academy of Science in Richmond in 1935, to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1946 and to the American College of Cardiology in 1951, has written over 110 essays and contributions on his subject in the most important German and American fields since 1931 physiological and medical journals and compilations.

Fonts

• The electrical phenomena of the striated muscle during the action of contracture-inducing substances, dissertation , Frankfurt am Main, 1924.
• With Emil Lehnartz : Textbook of Physiology for Students of Dentistry, Springer, 1934.

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar. Volume 1, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , page 888.
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 3, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 page 314.
• Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 1: A - Q. , Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 . Page 175.