Fritz Schellong

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Fritz Schellong (around 1950)

Fritz Makiri Schellong (born September 10, 1891 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † January 18, 1953 Münster ) was a German internist and university professor in Prague and Münster.

Life

As the son of the secret medical councilor Otto Schellong , Fritz Schellong attended the Königsberg Wilhelms-Gymnasium . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the University of Jena from 1911 . In the same year he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Jena . As an inactive , he moved to the local Albertus University in Königsberg . As the seventh of his family, he became active in the Corps Masovia with Werner Contag in the summer semester of 1912 . The medical studies were interrupted by the four-year assignment as a field doctor in the First World War . After graduating he was in 1920 when Martin Kirschner in Königsberg to Dr. med. PhD. He began his specialist training at the Medical Clinic of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel with Alfred Schittenhelm . It was from this time that his interest in cardiac physiology and the clinical application of the electrocardiogram arose , which he deepened during a one-year study visit to the Würzburg University Hospital with the physiologist Maximilian von Frey . After Kiel returned and senior physician appointed habilitation he 1925. 1929 he was an adjunct professor . From 1933 Schellong was head of the Speyerer Hof hospital in Heidelberg . During this time he developed the Schellong test and clinical vector cardiography. In 1939 he followed the call of the German University in Prague to its chair for internal medicine . In the next year he moved to the University Hospital in Münster . For a time he was dean of the medical faculty. In 1940 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . As a full professor, he died at the age of 62.

He was married to the doctor Anneliese Schewe since 1924.

power

The focus of his scientific work were mainly in the field of heart - disease . In the years 1922 to 1927 he was mainly concerned with experimental investigations into questions of the basic properties of the heart muscle, especially with the cardiac action currents, the conduction of excitation and electrocardiography. This was followed by work on the mode of action of sugar metabolism, cardiac conduction disorders and blood pressure regulation (1927–1930). From 1931, the main focus was on circulatory regulation and its functional testing ( Schellong test ). He also worked on the effect of cardiac glycosides on cardiac conduction, essential arterial hypertension , electrocardiographic diagnostics and the experience of treating diabetes mellitus with soy meal products as a nutritional alternative . In the field of electrocardiography, he initially dealt with cardiac arrhythmias and later turned to the study of the QRS complex . Schellong can be considered as one of the first to make the results of experimental electrophysiology available to clinical application of electrocardiography. In 1936 he introduced vector cardiography and in 1937 presented an orthogonal lead system.

music

As a child, Schellong showed his unusual musical talent. She was supported by extensive lessons in piano playing and music theory . In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he decided not to study music. The compositional attempts of his youth are not preserved. On the other hand, the manuscripts of 27 songs composed in the romantic style (mostly from the years 1910–1916) survived both world wars intact.

Fonts

  • Arterial hypotension . Rat. Dtsch. Ges. Inn. Med. 45 (1933), p. 143
  • The use of the soybean in medicinal foods . Dresden 1935
  • The regulatory test of the circulatory system . Dresden 1938
  • Electrographic diagnosis of myocardial diseases . Rat. Dtsch. Ges. Inn. Med. 48 (1936), p. 288
  • with S. Heller and E. Schwingel: The vector diagram, an examination method of the heart . In: Zeitschrift für Kreisforschung , 29 (1937), p. 497
  • Outline of a clinical vector diagraph of the heart . Result. Inn. Med. Paediatrics. 56 (1939), p. 1657

literature

  • E. Schütz: In memoriam Fritz Schellong . Zeitschrift für Kreisforschung 42 (1953), pp. 321-335 Google Book Search
  • W. Frey: Prof. Dr. Fritz Schellong . German Med. Wochenschr. 78 (1953), p. 576
  • GE Burch, NP DePasquale: A history of electrocardiography . Year Book, Chicago 1964, p. 93
  • K. Pelzner: Personal bibliographies of professors and lecturers in internal medicine and paediatrics at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague in the approximate period 1900–1945 . Dissertation, University of Erlangen 1972
  • 75 years of the German Society for Cardiology [...] , 2002, p. 245

Web links

Commons : Fritz Schellong  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 75/473; 89/1009
  2. ↑ Obituary from the Masurian Old Masters Association , in: Ostpreußenblatt, August 1, 1953, p. 15
  3. ↑ Dissertation: A contribution to the diagnosis and surgical therapy of paraplegia due to tuberculous spondylitis ( catalog slip , dissertation catalog of the University Library of Basel , accessed on July 21, 2016).
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: The physical basics of electrocardiography .
  5. ^ Member entry of Fritz Schellong at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schellong, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schellong, Fritz Makiri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1953
Place of death Muenster