Friedrich Heinrich Bidder

Friedrich Heinrich Bidder

Georg Friedrich Karl Heinrich Bidder (* October 28 ^jul. / 9. November  1810 ^greg. On the estate Laudohn , Governorate of Livonia ; † August 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. August  1894 ^{. Greg} in Tartu , Governorate of Livonia) was a Baltic German pathologist and physiologist .

family

Friedrich Heinrich Bidder was born as the son of the estate manager Ernst Christian Bidder and his wife Amalie Jacobine Bidder, b. Strohkirch, born. Bidder married Maria Rapp in June 1837.

His sons were the physicians Friedrich Ernst Bidder (1839-1902) and Alfred Bidder (1844-1905), who worked in Berlin.

Life

From 1821 to 1824 he attended the renowned private school of his father's brother Karl Johann Bidder (1777-1824) in the Livonian capital Riga , then from 1824 to 1827 the grammar school in the Kurland capital Mitau .

From 1828 Bidder studied medicine at the Imperial University of Dorpat, today's University of Tartu , where he obtained his doctorate in 1834. He then went to Germany on a grant from the Russian government for a year and a half, where he continued his education in Berlin, Halle and Leipzig.

After returning to Dorpat, he became an associate professor of anatomy and prosector . In 1842 he became a full professor of anatomy. The following year he switched to the chair of physiology. From 1858 to 1865 Bidder was rector of the Imperial University in Dorpat. In 1869 he retired.

In 1877 he became president of the Dorpater Naturalists' Assembly.

Scientific achievements

In 1842 he showed with his study The independence of the sympathetic nervous system, proven by anatomical studies , that protein molecules break down into urea when they are no longer needed in the body .

In 1852 he published The Digestive Juices and Metabolism with Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt . A physiological-chemical examination .

With Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann he researched the sympathetic and from 1855 with Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer the spinal cord .

He was the discoverer of the Bidders organ . He questioned Claude Bernard's findings on the pancreas.

Honors

In 1856 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1857 he was a corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences . In 1879 he was the first to receive the Baer Medal. In 1860 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1884 Bidder was made an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and advisory member of the Medical Council in Saint Petersburg .

Fonts

• Neurological Observations . CA Kluge, Dorpat 1836 ( archive )
• with Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann : The independence of the sympathetic nervous system proven by anatomical studies. Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1842 ( Google Books )
• with Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann: On the doctrine of the relationship between the ganglion bodies and the nerve fibers. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1847 ( Google Books )
• Comparative anatomical and histological studies of the male reproductive and urinary tools of the nude amphibians . EJ Karow, Dorpat 1846 ( archive )
• with Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt : The digestive juices and the metabolism: a physiological-chemical investigation. GA Reyher, Mitau and Leipzig 1852 ( archive )

literature

• Ludwig Stieda :  Bidder, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 538-540.
• Johannes Steudel :  Bidder, Heinrich Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Achard Thomas: The physiologist Friedrich Bidder. Zurich: Juris Druck + Verlag 1969
• Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 36

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Friedrich Heinrich Bidder. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat , Dorpat 1889
• Biography , biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the burial register of the university community in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu ülikooli kogudus)
2. ↑ http://www.bod.ch/index.php?id=296&objk_id=96487
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 22, 2009 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. 
4. ↑ http://www.solvay-arzneimittel.de/patienten/magendarm/bauchspeicheldruese/historisches/literaturkritik/0,,41206-4-0,00.htm
5. ^ Member entry of Friedrich Heinrich von Bidder at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 14, 2015.
6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 40.