Fritz Voit

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Fritz Voit (born February 17, 1863 in Munich , † October 28, 1944 in Gießen ) was a German internist and professor.

Life

Fritz, actually Friedrich Voit, was a son of Carl von Voit and Laura, née von Hößlin (* 1831). After graduating from Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium in 1882 , he devoted himself to studying medicine at the universities of Munich and Kiel , which he completed in Munich in 1889 with the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. He subsequently held assistant doctor positions at the Cologne hospital as well as at the Munich and Strasbourg medical clinics, before he qualified as a professor in Munich in 1893 for internal medicine . There he was appointed associate professor in 1900 , and in 1902 he was appointed director of the Medical Polyclinic.

In 1903 he moved to the University of Erlangen as full professor of internal medicine and director of the medical polyclinic, the children's clinic and the pharmacological institute . In 1906 he accepted an appointment as full professor of internal medicine and director of the medical clinic at the University of Basel , before he held the same position at the University of Giessen from 1907 until his retirement in 1933 . He was appointed to the Secret Medical Council and retired in October 1933.

Fritz Voit had been with Auguste, b. Steinheil, from Munich, daughter of Adolph Steinheil and Ida, née Erdinger, married. The marriage resulted in the son Kurt (* 1895; internist) and the daughter Anna (* 1897).

Fritz Voit's research focused in particular on the areas of bacteriology , parasitology and metabolism .

Fonts

  • On the bactericidal influence of blood Inaugeral dissertation , printed by C. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 1889
  • Contributions to the question of secretion and resorption in the small intestine Habilitation thesis , Munich, 1893
  • Textbook of clinical examination methods (with Richard Geigel): Enke, Stuttgart 1895.
  • About the so-called hemisystole (with Otto Frank), in: Archiv der Klinischen Medizin 65, 1900, pp. 580-587.
  • The process of decomposition in the animal organism when muscles are turned off by Curare (with Otto Frank), anniversary volume for Voit, in: Zeitschrift für Biologie 42, 1901, pp. 309–362.
  • The effect of pilocarpine on decomposition in the animal organism (with Otto Frank), in: Zeitschrift für Biologie 44, 1903, pp. 11-120.
  • The effect of pilocarpine on decomposition in the animal organism (with Otto Frank), in: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 50, 2, 1903, p. 1440.

literature

  • Franz Neubert (ed.): German contemporary lexicon. Leipzig, Schulze 1905.
  • Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar: de Gruyter, Berlin 1931.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 398 (photo).
  • Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Berlin and Vienna 1932–1933.
  • Hermann Degener (Ed.): Who is it ?, 10th edition, Leipzig 1935.
  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 240, 241.
  • Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking doctors. Volume 2: R - Z. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11462-1 . Page 655.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1881/82
personal data
SURNAME Voit, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1944
Place of death to water