Friedrich Albin Hoffmann

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Friedrich Hoffmann

Friedrich Albin Hoffmann (born November 13, 1843 in Ruhrort , † November 13, 1924 in Leipzig ) was a German anatomist and internist .

Live and act

The son of a master builder studied medicine in Berlin , Tübingen and Würzburg from 1864 to 1869 . After receiving his doctorate in 1868, he worked as an assistant doctor to Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs at the First Medical Clinic at the University of Berlin . After participating in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 , he qualified as a professor in 1872 for special pathology and therapy . In 1874 he was appointed to the University of Dorpat . In 1877 he headed a medical department during the Russo-Turkish War and was appointed the real Russian State Councilor. In 1886 he moved to Leipzig as a full professor , where he succeeded Adolf von Strümpell as director of the medical polyclinic until 1920 . During his tenure, Hoffmann succeeded in significantly expanding the Leipzig Polyclinic , so that it became one of the largest German Polyclinics.

Hoffmann laid the cornerstone of his scientific career in Rudolf Virchow's laboratory . In 1869, together with Paul Langerhans , he researched the affinity of various tissues to intravenously injected cinnabar and thus laid the basis for Ludwig Aschoff's concept of the reticuloendothelial system . Hoffmann later mainly worked histologically on diseases of the bronchi and mediastinum as well as blood and metabolic diseases . He also made a name for himself as a diagnostician . As one of the first German ordinaries, he promoted X-ray diagnostics in Leipzig . In addition to his relevant textbooks, he was quoted above all in the discussion on “traumatic neurosis” (according to Hermann Oppenheim ) because he was one of the first to establish a sociogenic connection with accident insurance . He also attached great importance to dietetics as a therapy .

“There is no doubt that the art of healing finds its fulfillment in the right way of life and nutrition and that besides this main and basic remedy, all other therapy is only to be placed secondarily. In all difficult cases, the general practitioner turns to the art of dietetic medicine and the better for the patient, the earlier the doctor turns to it and the sooner the patient realizes that he is receiving the most valuable prescription in the apparently simplest form. "

- Friedrich Albin Hoffmann : Dietetic cures (1903)

His son was the physiologist Paul Hoffmann (1884–1962).

Publications

  • with Carl Alfred Bock : Experimental studies on diabetes . Berlin 1874.
  • Considerations about absolute milk diet . Berlin 1884.
  • Textbook of constitutional diseases . Stuttgart 1893.
  • Mediastinal diseases . Vienna 1896.
  • The Reich Insurance Code after the lecture on social medicine for lawyers and doctors . Leipzig 1921.

literature

  • Cornelia Becker: Doctors of the Leipzig Medical Faculty. 22 short portraits in words and pictures, with an overview of the history of the faculty since it was founded in 1415. Leipzig 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esther Fischer-Homberger: The traumatic neurosis. From somatic to social suffering. Bern 1975, p. 175f.
  2. ↑ Ernst Leyden, Georg Klemperer (ed.): Handbook of nutrition therapy and dietetics. Vol. 1, Leipzig 1903, p. 402.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Friedrich Albin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and internist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhrort
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1924
Place of death Leipzig