Eugen Kirch

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Eugen Kirch (born March 10, 1888 in Siegen , Westphalia , † April 2, 1973 in Regensburg ) was a German pathologist who researched heart diseases in particular.

Life

Kirch studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he met his later superior in Würzburg , Martin Benno Schmidt . Since 1907 he was a member of the Catholic student association VKDSt Rhenania Marburg. In 1912 he received his doctorate “ summa cum laude ” with a dissertation on microbiology . From 1913 he did a year of military service as a regimental doctor in the Prussian garrison in Münster .

At the beginning of the First World War , Kirch switched to the prosecution of an army corps , where he began pathological training. He continued this at the Pathological Institute of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg under the direction of his Marburg friend Schmidt. In 1920, Kirch completed his habilitation with work on cardiac pathology, which will remain his most important field of work in the future. He carried out particular research on hypertrophy and dilation of the heart, was the first to conduct studies on the hearts of competitive athletes and differentiated their adaptation to the requirements of competitive sports from degenerative changes.

In 1928 he became a full professor of pathology at the University of Erlangen . He held this office for 18 years.

In 1930, Kirch appeared as an expert witness in a controversial criminal case for the violent death of the Kulmbach entrepreneur's wife Margarete Meußdoerffer .

In 1946, in the course of denazification, leading academics were removed from office, which also affected Kirch. From 1946 he ran a private pathological institute in Regensburg and campaigned for academic education and training. But already in 1949 he was appointed to the chair of his former mentor Schmidt in Würzburg. His work there was not only characterized by the resumption of research and teaching, but also by the reconstruction of the university facilities, some of which had been massively destroyed. In 1957 Kirch was retired . He moved to Regensburg, where he died alone in a nursing home in 1973.

Works (selection)

  • About regular shifts in the internal proportions of the normal and pathologically changed human heart , 1921
  • The behavior of the heart and circulation in right-sided ("pulmonary") cardiac hypertrophy , 1925
  • Pathology of the heart , in: Results of the general pathology and pathological anatomy of humans and animals, 22nd year , 1927, ISBN 978-3-662-32534-6
  • The Upper Franconian porcelain dust lung in pathological-anatomical lighting , 1953,

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Kirch: About experimental pseudotuberculosis through a variety of Bacillus Paratyphi B. Institute for Hygiene and Experimental Therapy, Dept. f. Hygiene, Marburg, 1913, accessed on March 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schoberth: Kulmbacher murder case Meußdoerffer is unsolved. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kirch, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegen , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 1973
Place of death Regensburg , Germany