Fritz Buchthal

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Fritz Buchthal (born August 19, 1907 in Witten ; died December 24, 2003 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was a German-Danish neurophysiologist .

Scientific career

Fritz Buchthal had a laboratory at the Humboldt University in Berlin until he fled to Denmark from the National Socialists in 1933. There he conducted research in the field of neurophysiology at the University of Copenhagen . In 1943 he fled the persecution of the German Jews to Sweden and taught at Lund University . After the war he stayed in Denmark, where he was granted Danish citizenship in 1946 and became the first Danish professor of neurophysiology at the University of Copenhagen in 1955.

Fonts

  • About the refractory stage of the atrium. In: Journal of Biology. Vol. 91, H. 5. 1931 (pp. 349-357), Lehmanns Verlag, Munich (1931); Berlin, Med.Diss., 1932 (university thesis)
  • Introduction to electromyography. (Original title: An Introduction to electromyography ; translated from English by Albrecht Struppler), Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich / Berlin 1958

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 166
  • Vilhelm Møller-Christensen: Fritz Buchthal (born 1907). Neurophysiologist , in: Willy Dähnhardt ; Birgit S. Nielsen (Ed.): Exile in Denmark: German-speaking scientists, artists and writers in Danish exile after 1933 , Heide: Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, 1993 ISBN 3-8042-0569-0 , pp. 141–146
  • P. Pinelli, A. Fiaschi: Tribute to Fritz Buchthal , in: Neurological Sciences, April 2004, Volume 25, Issue 1, p. 38

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personal data
SURNAME Buchthal, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2003
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)