Friedrich Moritz (Internist)

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Friedrich Moritz (born December 10, 1861 in Mainz , † January 12, 1938 in Cologne ) was a German doctor and internist .

family

(Ludwig Heinrich) Friedrich Moritz was the son of the lawyer and brewery owner Johann Baptist Moritz. Friedrich Moritz was married to Helene Thomas († 1917). After two years of mourning, he married Marie Sophie Hochhaus for the second time in 1919.

education and profession

Moritz completed school in his hometown and in Koblenz (1872–1874). In Neuwied , Moritz graduated from high school in 1880 as the best student of his year and began to study law at the University of Bonn that same year . In 1880/81 Moritz did his military service as a one-year-old volunteer in the 53rd Infantry Regiment. Immediately afterwards he began to study medicine at the University of Würzburg . In 1883 he switched to the same subject at the University of Berlin , stayed there until 1884 and then studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Moritz completed his studies there on July 28, 1885 in the doctoral procedure with a thesis on transudation and exudation, which was awarded the grade summa cum laude . He received his license to practice medicine on July 9, 1886.

Moritz studied chemistry from 1886 to 1887 and was Hugo von Ziemssen's assistant at the First Medical Clinic in Munich from 1887 . During this time he worked out the basics for his habilitation in internal medicine , which he achieved on March 31, 1890. Moritz headed the University Polyclinic of the 1st Medical Clinic in Munich as an associate professor from 1892 to 1902 . His official duties also included regular lectures in which he specifically addressed the medical polyclinic and the history of medicine .

He then took on a full professorship in Greifswald, succeeding Ludolf von Krehl, and in 1905 moved to Gießen in the same position . In 1907 Moritz followed a call to the prestigious Chair of Internal Medicine in Strasbourg . From 1911 to 1919 he represented internal medicine at the Academy for Practical Medicine at the Lindenburg Hospital in Cologne and was director of the Medical University Clinic in Cologne until his retirement in 1928 , of which he became an honorary citizen in 1935.

power

In his dissertation, Moritz described a method for differentiating between transudates and exudates using acetic acid (Moritz Rivalta sample) and made a name for himself as an excellent clinical chemist. Moritz introduced a course on “clinical technicisms” for the first time in Germany and described the practice of cubital venipuncture. But his main interest was the clinical heart - circulation -Medicine: He developed a portable blood pressure monitor and a radiographic method for determining the size of the heart (Orthodiagraphie), dealt comprehensively with the physiology and pathology of the heart, led physiological studies of the circulatory function and the heat balance by. In addition, he dealt with the topic of sport and physical stress as well as physiological and pathological metabolic processes (e.g. diabetes mellitus ). Other main research areas were healthy eating and dietetics .

useful information

  • Alderman Konrad Adenauer personally asked Moritz for an expert examination of Jean Oebel's war bread, patented in 1915 by the Rheinische Brotfabriken .
  • On October 1st, 1920 Moritz took over the office of Rector of Cologne University.
  • In 1925 he was elected chairman of the German Society for Internal Medicine.
  • Moritz published more than 150 papers on almost all topics from medicine and science, wrote numerous popular science lectures, obituaries and general statements on professional politics .
  • In the year of the 66th anniversary of his death, the archives of Cologne University honored Moritz with a memorial exhibition (October 14-16, 2004).
  • A street in the Cologne district of Lindenthal is named after Friedrich Moritz.

Works

  • Contributions to the teaching of exudates and transudates , Diss. Med., Munich. Leipzig 1886
  • About the copper oxide-reducing substances in the urine under physiological and pathological conditions , Dtsch Arch Klin Med 46 (1890) 217–272
  • Basics of sick nutrition. Twenty-one lectures for students and doctors . Stuttgart 1898
  • A simple method to determine the true size of an object from the shadow projections during the X-ray procedure (orthodiagraphy) and the exact determination of the heart size according to this procedure . Münchn Med Wschr 47 (1900) 92-96
  • The diseases of the peripheral nerves of the spinal cord and brain , In: J. v. Mering (Ed.): Textbook of Internal Medicine, 4th edition, Jena 1907, pp. 700–930
  • Using a method to precisely determine the pressure in superficial veins in humans (with D. v. Tabora), Dtsch Arch Klin Med 99 (1910) 475–505
  • The general pathology of the heart and the vessels , In: L. Krehl, F. Marchand (Ed.): Handbuch der Allgemeine Pathologie, Vol. 2/2, Leipzig 1913, pp. 1-112
  • A portable blood pressure meter , Münchn Med Wschr 61 (1914) 2328–2329
  • About simplified handling of the calorie values ​​for practical nutritional issues . Munich 1919
  • About the healing power of nature. Rector's inaugural speech, given at the University of Cologne in the winter semester of 1920 . Cologne 1921
  • From the medical school of the old university . In: Festschrift commemorating the founding of the old University of Cologne in 1388. Cologne 1938, pp. 237–287

literature

  • J. Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the 19th century. Berlin 1901, pp. 1159-1160
  • Kürschner's Scholars Calendar 4 (1931) 1997
  • E. Schott: Friedrich Moritz on his 70th birthday. Dtsch Med Wschr, Volume 57 (1931), pp. 2118-2119, doi : 10.1055 / s-0028-1124886
  • Ernst Wiechmann: Friedrich Moritz on his seventieth birthday. Klinische Wochenschrift, December 5, 1931, Volume 10, Issue 49, p. 2287, doi : 10.1007 / BF01760806
  • I. Fischer (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Berlin 1932, Vol. 2, pp. 1069-1070
  • G. Wüllenweber: Friedrich Moritz. Münchn Med Wschr 85 (1938) 257
  • E. Wiechmann: Friedrich Moritz. Dtsch Med Wschr 64 (1938) 279
  • Hans Dietlen: Friedrich Moritz in memory. Dtsch Arch Klin Med 181 (1938) 531-538
  • Hans Dietlen: Friedrich Moritz. A great clinician. Cologne 1950
  • G. Bachmann: Personal bibliographies of the professors and lecturers of internal medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in the approximate period from 1870–1920 with brief biographical information and an overview of the subject areas. Erlangen-Nürnberg 1971, pp. 36-50
  • ME Cornely: Friedrich Moritz, doctor and teacher. The estate in Halle (Cologne medical history contributions; 71). Cologne 1995
  • A. Freäger: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Moritz (1861–1938). Doctor - teacher - researcher. Booklet accompanying the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Cologne Academy for Practical Medicine (publications from the Cologne University Archives; 2). Cologne 2004 [1] (PDF; 2.1 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad Adenauer and Volker Gröbe: Streets and Squares in Lindenthal , JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , p. 46f.

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personal data
SURNAME Moritz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moritz, Ludwig Heinrich Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1938
Place of death Cologne