Georg Wilhelm Kreutzberg

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Georg Wilhelm Kreutzberg (born September 2, 1932 in Ahrweiler ; † March 20, 2019 ) was a German neuropathologist and neuroscientist . Kreutzberg was director at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry and Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology for many years .

Life

Georg Kreutzberg, a descendant of Georg Kreuzberg , the founder of the Apollinaris fountain and the Bad Neuenahr spa , studied medicine and psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Innsbruck Medical University and the University of Vienna . In Bonn he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Ripuaria Bonn in the CV , later also the KDSt.V. Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1961 he received his doctorate in medicine in Freiburg . After working as a medical assistant at various university clinics, he became a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. From 1964 to 1965 he was a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and in 1968 a guest scientist at Rockefeller University in New York City . In 1971 he completed his habilitation in neuropathology at the Technical University of Munich in the field of general and experimental neuropathology.

In 1977 Kreutzberg was appointed adjunct professor for neuropathology at the medical faculty of the Technical University of Munich . In 1978 he was appointed scientific member and director of the Theoretical Institute of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich (from 1984 at the Martinsried site), which in 1998 became the independent Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology . In 1993 he worked as a visiting professor at the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich . In 2000 Kreutzberg retired , but continued to give lectures, hold honorary posts and work as a consultant.

He was a member of numerous national and international research institutions. Between 1981 and 1985 he was President of the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ) , from 1994 to 1997 of the International Society of Neuropathology and from 1999 to 2001 of the German Neuroscientific Society (NWG) . In 1991 he was a founding member and from 1994 to 2008 Chairman of the Research Council of the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia (IFP), Zurich. From 1991 to 1998 Georg Kreutzberg was the initiator, co-founder and director of the European Initiative for Communicators of Science (EICOS) . Since 1991 he has been a member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea . From 2007 to 2008 he was President of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences .

Kreutzberg was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land and was a member of the German Association of the Holy Land . In 1991 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Giuseppe Caprio . On October 26, 1991 it was invested in the Papal Order of Knights in the Speyer Cathedral by Anton Schlembach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy.

Act

As an experimental neuropathologist, he researched the cellular mechanisms of brain and nervous diseases, particularly the regeneration and repair mechanisms in the brain and the role of glial cells in brain diseases. He was considered to be a leader in research into microglial cells , the crucial defense cells of brain tissue. He discovered the blocking effect of colchicine on axonal and dendritic transport in nerve cells. Using the model of the facial nucleus after axotomy , he and his colleagues found essential parameters of the nerve cell regeneration program. Here he also developed the activation concept for microglial cells, which opened up new ways of understanding many brain diseases.

Awards and honors (selection)

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • GW Kreutzberg: Microglia: a sensor for pathological events in the CNS. In: Trends in Neurosciences 19 (8), 1996, pp. 312-318.
  • MB Graeber, WF Blakemore, GW Kreutzberg: Cellular pathology of the central nervous system. In: DI Graham, PL Lantos (Ed.): Greenfield's Neuropathology , Volume 1 7th Edition, Arnold, London, 2002, ISBN 0340762217 , p. 123.191.
  • GW Kreutzberg: Dendrites, Transport and Secretion. In: G. Adelman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Neuroscience , Volume 1. Birkhäuser, Boston, 1987, ISBN 3764333359 , pp. 319-320.
  • GW Kreutzberg: Microglia. In: G. Adelman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Neuroscience , Volume 2. Birkhäuser, Boston, 1987, ISBN 3764333359 , pp. 661-662.
  • GW Kreutzberg (1995): Reaction of the neuronal body to axonal damage. In: GG Waxman, D. Kocsis, PK Stys (Ed.): The Axon: Structure, Function and Pathophysiology. Oxford University Press, New York, 1995, ISBN 0195082931 , Chapter 19, pp. 355-374.
  • Article Kreutzberg. In: Lexicon of Neuroscience , Volume 2. Spectrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2000, ISBN 3827404525 , p. 270.
  • Researcher Kreutzberg, Georg W. In: Science Citation Index . Institute for Scientific Information , August 16, 2001, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 .;
  • The decisive factor in being and becoming human happens on the social level. In: Matthias Eckoldt : Can Consciousness Be Conscious? Carl-Auer, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 217–228.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice of Georg Wilhelm Kreutzberg. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 23, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Gregor Brand: Georg Kreuzberg - merchant and spa pioneer from Ahrweiler. In: Eifel newspaper. February 10, 2016, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hans Jürgen Brandt: Jerusalem has friends - Munich and the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher: Festgabe for the golden jubilee of the Commandery Patrona Bavariae. Eos Verlag, Sankt Ottilien, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8306-7407-8 , page 164 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kreutzberg, Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreutzberg, Georg W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuropathologist and neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrweiler
DATE OF DEATH 20th March 2019