Friedrich Wassermann

Friedrich Wassermann , also Fritz Wassermann , (born August 13, 1884 in Munich , † June 16, 1969 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American anatomist and histologist .

Life

Friedrich Wassermann, son of Franz Wassermann and Amalie Techheimer, devoted himself to the put-away Abitur a study of medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , which he in 1910 with the acquisition of the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. Wassermann held an assistant position at the anatomical institute there from 1908 and completed his habilitation in anatomy in 1914. After participating in the First World War , Wassermann held the extraordinary professorship in anatomy from 1920 to 1936 , later also in histology and embryology in Munich, and since 1931 he was director of the anatomical institute.

Robert Wetzel was a student of his .

1936 due to the Nuremberg Laws dismissed, emigrated Aquarius 1937 in the USA, where he worked as associate professor , since 1943 as a full professor at the University of Chicago taught. From 1949 until his death, he worked at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. In 1952 he worked as a visiting professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and in 1954 at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main . Friedrich Wassermann was accepted as a full member of the Leopoldina in 1952 , in 1965 on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was presented with the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , and in 1968 he was appointed Honorary President of the Anatomical Society.

Fonts

• About the macro- and microchemical evidence of iron in the yolk of the chicken egg. Dissertation . JF Bergmann, 1910.
• On the egg maturation of Zoogonus mirus: a contribution to the synapsis question. Fischer, 1912.
• The oogenesis of the Zoogonus mirus Lss: From the Anatomical Institute Munich, Director Rückert. Cohen, 1913.
• Manual of the microscopic human anatomy: growth and multiplication of living mass. Part 2, Springer, 1929.
• Growth and multiplication of the living mass. In: The living mass, manual of the microscopic human anatomy. Volume 2, Springer, 1929, ISBN 3-540-01094-7 .

literature

• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag, Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 342.
• Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 2: R – Z…. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 , p. 667.
• Hans Morgenstern: Jewish biographical lexicon. A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-0509-8 , p. 843 ( books.google.com ).
• Wassermann, Friedrich , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 379
• Wassermann, Friedrich , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1210

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Wassermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Wassermann's estate in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library