Friedrich Goltz (Physiologist)

Friedrich Goltz (around 1870)

Bust on Goltz's tomb

Friedrich Leopold Goltz (born August 14, 1834 in Posen , † May 5, 1902 in Strasbourg ) was a German physiologist and nephew of the writer Bogumil Goltz .

Life

Goltz studied medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg from 1853 to 1857 . In the winter semester of 1855/56 he became a member of the Germania fraternity . In 1858 he received his doctorate with his dissertation De spatii sensu cutis .

After completing his studies, he stayed at the Albertina and became a prosector there in 1861, then a private lecturer in 1862 and a professor in 1865. From 1870 he was professor of physiology in Halle , from 1872 in Strasbourg . In 1874 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1888 he became rector of the Strasbourg University .

Friedrich Goltz worked on cardiac function, the sense of touch and, in particular, on neurophysiology and reflex phenomena. He was the first to perform a hemispherectomy on a dog.

He retired in 1901 and died in Strasbourg in May 1902. He found his final resting place in the local St. Urbans cemetery.

Works

• Functions of the nerve centers of the frog (1869)
• On the physiological importance of the semicircular canals of the ear labyrinth (1870)
• Functions of the cerebrum (1881)
• Against the human masters. Justification of a Vivisector (1883)

literature

• Julius Pagel : Goltz, Friedrich Leopold , in: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century . Berlin and Vienna 1901, Col. 614 f.
• Dietrich Trincker:  Goltz, Friedrich Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 636 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Short biography and references to digital sources in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (English)
• Entry on Friedrich Goltz in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis