Friedrich Martius
Friedrich Wilhelm August Martius (born September 7, 1850 in Erxleben near Magdeburg , † October 1, 1923 in Rostock ) was a German internist .
life and work
Friedrich Martius was born as the son of the superintendent Eduard Wilhelm Emil Fedor Martius and his wife Dorothee Antonie Elisabeth Martius, geb. Gotze, born. Martius studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1874 . He then worked as a military doctor . As a research assistant Martius was then at the II. Medical Clinic of the Charité by Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt worked and in 1887 habilitation . After two years as personal physician to Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. von Mecklenburg-Schwerin he accepted an appointment as associate professor and director of the medical outpatient clinic at the University of Rostock in 1891 . There Martius was appointed full professor in 1899. In 1910/11 he was rector of the University of Rostock. In 1914 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In his scientific work, Martius devoted himself primarily to the study of human heart movement. He developed a method for registering the apex beat and the allocation of heart sounds . As a clinic director in Rostock, Martius was the first to include the heart rate curve in the diagnosis of patients with heart disease and thus made one of the first contributions to cardiac functional diagnosis. He also carried out systematic studies on gastric secretion. He recognized achyly as an important symptom of pernicious anemia and dealt with constitutional typology and pathology. He was considered the founder of modern constitutional theory. His rector's speech from 1911 was devoted to the topic of "aging and getting old" and the medical and social problems of this stage of life.
Friedrich Martius was married to Martha geb. Leonhard (1861–1946), who came from a Judeo-Christian family from Ratibor (Silesia) (father: Emanuel Levysohn, 1831–1889), and the father of Heinrich Martius and Hedwig Conrad-Martius .
Fonts (selection)
- F. Martius: The prophylactic tracheotomy in the field. 1874
- F. Martius, J. Lüttke: The gastric acid of humans. Stuttgart 1892
- F. Martius: The heartbeat of healthy and sick people. Clin. Lecturer 113, 1894
- F. Martius: Tachycardia. A clinical study. 1895
- F. Martius: Achylia gastrica. Their causes and their consequences. Vienna 1897
- F. Martius: Pathogenesis of internal diseases. 1899
- F. Martius: Constitution and inheritance in their relationship to pathology. 1914
literature
- Werner Teichmann: Friedrich Martius - Rector 1910/11 (biography)
- R. Bochalli: Friedrich Martius and the importance of his constitution doctrine especially for tuberculosis. In: Lung. Volume 97, 1941, pp. 28-33, doi : 10.1007 / BF02143655
Web links
- Entry on Friedrich Martius in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- Entry on Friedrich Martius in Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, Col. 1103-1104
Single receipts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martius, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martius, Friedrich Wilhelm August (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German internist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Experience near Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1923 |
| Place of death | Rostock |