Franz Penzoldt

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Franz Penzoldt

Franz Penzoldt (born December 12, 1849 in Crispendorf , Thuringia, † September 19, 1927 in Munich ) was a German internist and pharmacologist and the father of the writer Ernst Penzoldt .

In Erlangen since 1874 , until his retirement in 1920 he was initially active as a professor of internal medicine and pharmacology from 1875 and as director of the medical clinic in Erlangen from 1903. He is an honorary citizen of the city of Erlangen.

During the First World War, with the rank of general physician, he headed the military hospitals , into which numerous university buildings had been converted. The handbook of the entire therapy and his textbook of clinical drug treatment for students and doctors published by him together with Roderich Stintzing (1854–1933) appeared in many editions and were standard works at their time.

The Franz-Penzoldt-Zentrum of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , which opened on June 20, 2005 and represents the central facility of the medical and natural science faculties for the welfare-friendly keeping of laboratory animals, the implementation of animal experiments and animal experimentation services, was named him.

His daughter-in-law was the opera singer Sigrid Onégin .

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SURNAME Penzoldt, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Crispendorf
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1927
Place of death Munich