Erwin Voit

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erwin Voit (born December 16, 1852 in Munich ; † June 15, 1932 there ) was a German physiologist and university professor .

Life

Erwin Reinhold Voit was a son from the second marriage of his father, the architect August von Voit , in 1846 with Ottilie Hermine Louise, née von Hößlin (born November 15, 1819, † January 23, 1883), a daughter of Eduard Friedrich Balthasar von Hößlin (1789–1862) from Augsburg. He grew up with several siblings and half-siblings in Munich, attended elementary school here and - like his brothers Otto (* 1855) and Richard (* 1857) - the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium . Here he passed the Abitur examination in 1871, among others with Philipp Allfeld .

Voit studied medicine and natural sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich , passed the medical state examination in 1877 and obtained his doctorate in the same year. med. with an animal physiological theme. From 1879 he worked at the physiological Carl Ludwig laboratory at the University of Leipzig , then as an assistant at the physiological institute in Munich. With a habilitation thesis in 1885 with Carl Ludwig (Leipzig), he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich (published in 1886); In 1888 he was appointed professor at the “Königliche Central-Thierarzneischule” - from 1890 “Königliche Tierärztliche Hochschule” - in Munich and in 1896 was appointed full professor. From 1914 to 1926 he taught at the veterinary faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1909 Erwin Voit was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and on May 21, 1909 a member ( matriculation no. 3285 ) of the Leopoldina .

Voit worked as a teacher and specialist author in the field of nutritional science with studies of the biological value of proteins and protein breakdown, the effects of low-calcium foods (on the development of rickets) and fat formation from carbohydrates. From 1908 he was co-editor (with his brother Carl von Voit) and editor of the "Zeitschrift für Biologie". In 1908 he was awarded the Order of Merit of St. Michael IV Class; Awarded the title and rank of Privy Councilor in 1913

In 1892 Erwin married Voit Marie, née Röder (born April 11, 1867), daughter of the Munich secret board member Christian Röder. The marriage had the three children Hans (* October 20, 1893), Ottilie (* February 16, 1895) and Rudolf (* February 9, 1896).

Publications (selection)

  • On the importance of lime for the animal organism. Inaugurial dissertation at the medical faculty of the University of Munich. Munich 1880.
  • The heart rate as a function of the stimulation of the accelerator nerve. Habilitation thesis from Munich. (From the physiological institute in Leipzig.) Separate print from the reports of math.-phys. Class of the Royal Saxon. Society of Sciences 1886. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1886.
  • About the size of the energy requirements of animals when hungry, in: Zeitschrift für Biologie, Vol. XLI, Oldenbourg, Munich 1901, pp. 114–154.
  • The calculation of the heat of combustion by means of the elementary composition , in: Zeitschrift für Biologie 44 (NF 26). Oldenbourg, Munich and Berlin 1903, p. 345 ff.
  • A contribution to the determination of protein nitrogen , in: Zeitschrift für Biologie 84 (NF 66), 1926.
  • The acid binding and swelling of the fibrin . I. Communication, in :. Journal of Biology 87, NF 69, 1928.

literature

  • Franz Neubert (ed.): German contemporary lexicon. Leipzig, Schulze 1905.
  • Hermann Degener (Ed.): Who is it ?, 4th edition, Leipzig 1909.
  • Wilhelm Zils (Hrsg.): Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies. Max Keller, Munich 1913.
  • Estate of Carl von Voit (1831–1908) and Erwin - BSB Voitiana / 0: Repertory of the estate of Carl von Voit (1831–1908) and Erwin (6 large boxes). Munich 1920.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar: de Gruyter, Berlin 1931.
  • Otto Frank: Erwin Voit on memory , in: Zeitschrift für Biologie 93, 1932, pp. 11-13.
  • Isidor Fischer (ed.). Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Vol. 2. Berlin and Vienna 1933.
  • Karl Eduard Rotschuh: History of Physiology. Springer, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg 1953, p. 183.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 10 (Thies - Zymalkowski). de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, p. 293.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl von Voit and Ernst Voit were half-siblings from their father's first marriage; the internist and university professor Fritz Voit was a son of his brother Carl
  2. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1870/71
  3. ↑ Founded in 1863 and managed by his half-brother Karl until 1908
  4. ^ Member entry by Erwin Voit at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on November 6, 2017
  5. ^ Member entry by Erwin Voit at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 6, 2017.
  6. ^ Voit, Erwin: Familien-Bogen (Munich, City Archives)
personal data
SURNAME Voit, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voit, Erwin Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1932
Place of death Munich