Franz Pfaff (doctor)

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Franz Pfaff

Franz Pfaff (born March 16, 1860 in Grafenort , County Glatz , † September 27, 1926 in New York City ) was a German pharmacologist.

Life

Pfaff attended the Vitzthum grammar school in Dresden . After graduating from high school, he studied natural sciences, especially chemistry, at the University of Leipzig from 1878 . In the same year he was reciprocated in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig . In 1880 he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he also joined the Corps Isaria . As an inactive he finished his studies at the University of Zurich , which made him a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1884 Pfaff worked as a private lecturer in Geneva and assistant at the chemical laboratory. The Brazilian government under Peter II (Brazil) appointed him 1886–1889 as director of the chemical laboratory in Manaus (Amazonas province). To study medicinal plants, he lived with his wife at times with an Indian tribe in the interior of Brazil.

Returned to Germany in 1889, he studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in Strasbourg . He worked at the Pharmacological Institute and was awarded Dr. med. PhD. He practiced in London hospitals in 1894 and passed the English medical state examination. In the same year he went to Boston . At Harvard Medical School he was an Instructor in Physiology (1894–1895), Instructor in Pharmacology (1895–1898), Instructor in Pharmacology and Physiological Chemistry (1898–1900), Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1900–1905) and Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1905-1913). Clinically, he worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital . A trip around the world took him in 1913 via Japan, China, Korea, Java and Siam to Switzerland. Returned to Germany at the start of the war in 1914, he enlisted for medical military service; as an American citizen, he was rejected. He stayed in Germany throughout the war and had been a doctor in Neubabelsberg since 1916 . In 1919 he returned to the USA to save the property he had confiscated there. From then on he worked as a general practitioner in Boston. He died of a stroke at the age of 66 .

Memberships

  • American Gastroenterological Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 93/590; 111/611
  2. ↑ Philosophical dissertation: Contributions to the knowledge of phenol and xylenol [1]
  3. ↑ a b Current entries of the life data in the corps album (register) of the Corps Lusatia. Obituary in the Lusatia Corps newspaper, published by Karl Haedenkamp , 16th year, issue 8
  4. ↑ Medical dissertation: Comparative studies on the diuretic effects of digitalis and digitalin on humans and animals [2]
  5. ^ Pfaff's employment at Harvard (Historical Register, The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard)
  6. ↑ BCMP Harvard ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bcmp.med.harvard.edu
  7. ^ A b c Journal of the American Medical Association 87 (1926), p. 1319


personal data
SURNAME Pfaff, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfaff, Franz Ludwig Friedrich Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and pharmacologist; University professor and general practitioner in Boston
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenort , County of Glatz, Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1926
Place of death New York City