Friedrich Albert von Zenker

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Friedrich Albert Zenker

Friedrich Albert von Zenker (born March 13, 1825 in Dresden ; † June 13, 1898 on the Reppentin estate near Plau in Mecklenburg ) was a doctor and pathologist .

Career

Friedrich Albert is the second child of Albert Zenker (Privy Councilor and Councilor in the Ministry of the Royal House in Dresden and private secretary to the King of Saxony) and Emilie Kohlschütter, daughter of Karl Christian Kohlschütter .

During his studies he became a fraternity in Leipzig in 1843 , in 1846 a member of the old Heidelberg fraternity Frankonia and in 1883 an honorary philistine in the Erlangen fraternity of the Bubenreuthers . After studying in Leipzig and Heidelberg (1843–1847) and receiving his doctorate in Leipzig in 1851, he initially worked in Dresden as a prosector at what is now the Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital . From 1853 to 1855 he was a lecturer and then professor for general pathology and pathological anatomy at the city's medical and surgical college. In 1863 he took over the chair in Erlangen , where he worked with great success as a researcher and teacher for more than 30 years. In 1873 Friedrich Albert von Zenker was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1887 he was raised to the personal nobility with the award of the Bavarian Crown Order. In 1895 he retired.

Discoveries

On January 28, 1860, Zenker discovered trichinosis in a girl who had died in a Dresden hospital. He was the first to prove that trichinae , which had been thought to be more or less harmless parasites since the mid-1830s , could cause serious and even fatal diseases and often attacked people.

A throat diverticulum is named after Zenker .

Publications

  • About human trichinosis . Virchow's Archive for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicine, Berlin, 1860, 18: 561–572.
  • Contributions to the doctrine of trichinella disease . Historical overview in "German Archive for Clinical Medicine", 1866; 1: 90-124.
    (This archive was set up in collaboration with Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen from 1866 to 1897 )
  • Contributions to the normal and pathological anatomy of the lungs . Dresden, G. Schönfelds Buchhandlung, 1862.
    First description of the pulmonary fat embolism in humans
  • About changes in voluntary muscles in typhoid abdom . Leipzig, 1864.
  • Diseases of the esophagus , with Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen, Leipzig, 1867.
    (also in von Ziemssen's Handbook of General Therapy, 1874; 7, part 1, appendix, pages 1–208)
  • About dust inhalation diseases of the lungs . German Archive for Clinical Medicin, 1867, II: 116–172.
  • On the pathological anatomy of acute yellow liver atrophy . German Archive for Clinical Medicine, Leipzig, 1872; X.
  • Via the cysticercus racemosus of the brain . Bonn, 1882.

literature

  • Josef Heurich: Life and work of Friedrich Albert von Zenkers . Düsseldorf, 1938.
  • Hermann Schröder: A souvenir sheet for Friedrich Albert von Zenker . Munich Medical Weekly, 1925, 72: 436–437

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fraternity leaves . XIV., Berlin 1900, p. 282.
  2. ↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 154.
  3. ↑ Member entry of Friedrich Albert von Zenker at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Zenker, Friedrich Albert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1898
Place of death Gut Reppentin near Plau , Mecklenburg