Felix Marchand

This article is about the medical professional Felix Marchand. On the politician, see Félix-Gabriel Marchand .

Felix Jacob Marchand (born October 22, 1846 in Halle (Saale) , † February 4, 1928 in Leipzig ) was a German pathologist .

Life

As the son of the chemist Richard Felix Marchand , Marchand studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1870 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . In 1879 he completed his habilitation on the subject of contributions to the knowledge of ovarian tumors . In 1881 he became full professor at the Hessian Ludwig University of Giessen . In 1883 he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg . As the successor to Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld , he was finally at the University of Leipzig from 1900 to 1921 . Franz Saxer was his prosector . He died at the age of 82 and was buried in the Südfriedhof (Leipzig) .

Honors

Marchands grave

• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1882)
• Full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences (1900)
• Corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1910)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig

Publications

• Contributions to the knowledge of ovarian tumors. HW Schmidt, Halle 1879. (Habilitation thesis)
• About the change of views in pathology: academic inaugural speech given on November 12, 1881. Enke, Stuttgart 1882.
• The morphology of the frontal lobe and the island of the anthropomorphs. Work from the pathological institute in Marburg. Volume 2 H. 1. Jena 1893.
• About so-called “decidual” tumors following normal childbirth, abortion, moles and extrauterine pregnancy. Monthly for obstetrics and gynecological diseases, Berlin 1895; 1: 419-438, 513-562.
• The process of wound healing. German Surgery, Volume 16. Stuttgart 1901
• The process of wound healing: including the transplants. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1901
• Rudolf Virchow as a pathologist. Commemorative speech given on October 21, 1902 in the Medical Society of Leipzig. Lehmann, Munich 1902
• About the human brain weight. 1902. Treatises of the mathematical-physical class of the Royal. Saxon Society of Sciences; XXVII. Vol., No. IV. Leipzig: BG Teubner, 1902
• The pathological institute of the University of Leipzig. Work from the pathological institute in Leipzig, volume 3. Leipzig 1903.
• About brain cysticerks. Collection of clinical lectures; Leipzig 1904.
• Ludolf von Krehl and F. Marchand (eds.): Handbook of general pathology. Hirzel, Leipzig 1908-
• About the inflammation. Medical Clinic, Munich 1911, 7: 1921–1927.
• For the hundredth birthday of Rudolf Virchow. Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 68 (1921), pp. 1271-1274.

Web links

• Felix Marchand in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Felix Marchand's courses at Leipzig University (summer semester 1900 to summer semester 1914)
• Entry on Felix Marchand in the "Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century" (1901)