Friedrich von Müller (physician)

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Friedrich von Müller

Friedrich von Müller (born September 17, 1858 in Augsburg , † November 18, 1941 in Munich ) was a German internist and is considered one of the founders of modern clinics .

Life

Von Müller was born into a traditional family of doctors; his father was the director of a hospital, his mother belonged to an Augsburg patrician family . He studied science and medicine in Munich and Würzburg , 1882 he was in Munich doctorate . From 1883 he assisted Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ; first in the Juliushospital in Würzburg, then he followed him to Berlin in 1885 . In 1888 he was habilitated on the basis of his complete works and received a professorship in Bonn . In 1890 he moved to Breslau , in 1892 to the Philipps University of Marburg and in 1899 to the University of Basel . In 1904 he returned to Munich and remained there until 1941 as a professor and head of the 2nd Medical Clinic. In 1920 he was chairman of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

In Munich, together with Ferdinand Sauerbruch and students, he campaigned (in vain) for the Jewish chemist Richard Willstätter to remain at the university, who had asked for his dismissal in 1924 because of anti-Semitic incidents.

His studies mainly extended to diseases of the respiratory organs , nervous system , metabolism and kidneys . His students included the internist Hans von Kress , who published the paperback of medical-clinical diagnostics founded by Müller and his friend Otto Seifert in 1886 at the instigation of their teacher and boss Gerhardt after Müller's death. The physician and chemist Hans Fischer worked as Müller's assistant at the 2nd Medical Clinic in Munich.

Awards

In 1922 von Müller was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1927 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Also in 1927 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Munich . The eagle shield of the German Empire with the inscription DEM GROSSEN KLINIKER was awarded to him on September 17, 1933. The Friedrich von Müller plaque - an award for medical professionals  - was named after him. The University Medical Center Freiburg named a station at the Clinic for Cardiology and Angiology I after von Müller.

Fonts

portrait

  • 1981 cast bronze medal, 94 mm. Front: bust with collar to the left. Back: 10 lines of text: ER WAR / UNDER HIS / CONTEMPORARY / WITHOUT DOUBT / THE BEST TEACHER / INNER MEDICINE / LUDOLPH VON KREHL / Thomae / 1981. Medalist: Professor Fritz Nuss (Göppingen 1907–1999 Strümpfelbach). Publisher: Thomae Company, Biberach

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, pp. 289–291.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Müller: From the foreword to the forty-ninth to fifty-fourth edition. In: Hans Frhr. von Kress (Ed.): Müller-Seifert. Pocket book of medical-clinical diagnostics. 69th edition. Published by JF Bergmann, Munich 1966, SV
  3. ^ Eberhard J. Wormer :  Friedrich von Müller. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 379-381 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Honorary citizenship of the state capital Munich
  5. ^ Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann : Ordenskunde - Contributions to the history of awards. No. 39. The Order Collection, Berlin 1971.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Steguweit: The "Eagle Shield of the German Empire" . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 6, 2000, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 182-187 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  7. ^ Station of Müller. University Heart Center Freiburg - Bad Krozingen, accessed on February 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1941
Place of death Munich