Georg Barkan

Georg Barkan (born March 22, 1889 in Polazk ; died March 7, 1945 in Boston ) was a Belarusian pharmacologist who taught at the Goethe University in Frankfurt .

Life

Adler was born to the Jewish merchant Salomon Barkan and his wife Julie Lossinsky. He passed his matriculation examination in 1908 at the Johannesgymnasium in Breslau . He then studied in Freiburg , Breslau and Munich medicine . He passed his state examination in Munich in 1913 and received his medical license in 1914. Barkan received his doctorate in the same year .

During the First World War , Barkan worked as a troop doctor , later he was a department doctor in the flying school of the Lechfeld air base . From 1919 he worked as an assistant to Otto Frank in Munich and Paul Morawitz in Würzburg . In 1923 he switched to Alexander Ellinger at Frankfurt University. Since 1927 he was a private lecturer there . From 1927 he became a professor in pharmacology and toxicology at the foundation university in Frankfurt am Main . In 1929 he moved to the University of Tartu in Estonia , where he became director of the Pharmacological Institute.

In 1937 he was dismissed from the University of Tartu and returned to Germany via Switzerland . However, due to the law to restore the civil service , he no longer had any career opportunities there. In 1938 he therefore emigrated to the USA , where he became professor of biochemistry at Boston University .

His main research interests were blood pigments , iron metabolism and iodine pharmacology . He was co-editor of the Naunyn-Schmiedeberg archive . Barkan was married to Charlotte Milch (1894–1968).

Works (selection)

• On the question of conduction in the mammalian heart. Kgl. Hof-Buchdruckerei Kästner and Callwey, Munich 1914 (dissertation).
• Iron studies . De Gruyter , Berlin , Leipzig 1927 ( habilitation thesis ).
• Procedure for determining the easily switched off blood iron . Berlin, Vienna 1935.
• Methods of studying the functions of individual organs of the animal organism .

literature

• Renate Heuer , Siegbert Wolf (ed.): The Jews of the Frankfurt University . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-593-35502-7 , p. 24 f .