Fritz Külz

Fritz Külz (born March  4, 1887 in Marburg , †  November 3, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German pharmacologist . From 1926 to 1935 he was professor and institute director at the University of Kiel and then in the same function at the University of Frankfurt until his death . The Fritz Külz Prize awarded by the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology is named after him .

Life

Fritz Külz was born as the son of the physiologist Eduard Külz (1845–1895) in Marburg in 1887 , where he also graduated from high school and studied medicine at Philipps University . He moved after completing his studies at the Max Rubner at the University of Berlin , he participated in the 1914 with a thesis on nutritional physiology doctorate . Eight years later he gained at Rudolf Boehm the Habilitation at the University of Leipzig , then where it until 1926 as a lecturer worked.

From April 1926 he was then a full professor of pharmacology and director of the Pharmacological Institute at Kiel University . From 1935 he worked in the same position at the University of Frankfurt . There he took over the professorship held by Werner Lipschitz until 1933 , who had emigrated to Turkey after the beginning of National Socialist rule in Germany due to his Jewish descent . In the years 1934/1935, Walther Laubender had meanwhile held the substitute chair.

Fritz Külz died in Frankfurt am Main in 1949 . He was initially followed by Otto Riesser , who, however, also died around four weeks after Külz's death. Then Walther Laubender took over the management of the institute as a substitute until Peter Holtz was appointed in April 1953 .

Work and memory

The focus of Fritz Külz's research was the investigation of the relationships between the chemical structure of drugs , especially substituted quaternary ammonium bases and sympathomimetics , and their pharmacological effects. He developed from the papaverine the obsolete today spasmolytic alverine ( Sestron ) and in the series of the derivatives of noradrenaline with large substituents on the nitrogen , the sympathomimetic buphenine ( Dilatol ). In memory of him, the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology awards the Fritz Külz Prize every two years for an experimental pharmacological publication or dissertation .

literature

• Karl Joachim Netter: Awarded the Fritz Külz Prize 1969. In: Naunyn-Schmiedebergs archive . 266 (4-5) / 1970. Springer-Verlag, pp. 285–288, ISSN  0028-1298 (with information on the life and work of Fritz Külz, pp. 286/287)
• Külz, Fritz. In: Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl, Rudolf Bülck: Professors and lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1665–1954. With information about the other teaching staff and the university librarians and a list of the rectors. Series: Publications of the Schleswig-Holstein University Society. Volume 7. Fourth edition. F. Hirt, Kiel 1956, p. 87

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Külz in the catalog of the German National Library