Gustav Bayer (doctor)

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Gustav Bayer (born June 10, 1879 in Vienna , † March 15, 1938 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian physician . He was professor for general and experimental pathology at the University of Innsbruck .

Life

Gustav Bayer was the son of Razová- born Viennese civil servant Josef Bayer (1846–1922), head of the securities department of the First Austrian Sparkasse in Vienna, and his wife Aloisa Maria, née Reitlinger (born 1851 in Vienna). After attending grammar school, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna . After passing the Rigorosen he received his doctorate there on April 27, 1904. Dr. med. During his studies, Gustav Bayer worked for several years as a demonstrator at the Physiological Institute in Vienna and, after completing his doctorate, was appointed assistant to Siegmund Exner on June 1, 1904 . On October 1, 1904, he moved to the Institute for General and Experimental Pathology as an assistant. There he worked for Moritz Loewit .

He qualified as a professor with the work on the influence of some glands with internal secretion on autolysis . Gustav Bayer researched and published a. a. on the importance of the adrenal glands for physiology and pathology, on organotherapy and hormone research, on endocrinology and biochemistry, as well as on metabolic and pathological issues. This earned him an extraordinary position in 1915 and a full professorship in Innsbruck in 1922.

Gustav Bayer headed the Institute for Experimental Pathology at the University of Innsbruck.

He lived in Innsbruck, Speckbacherstraße 25, and was married. His wife Maria, née Mühlberger, died in an accident on April 14, 1930. Their daughter Helga, born in 1921, took Gustav Bayer with him to commit suicide that he had chosen in March 1938 after Austria's annexation by the National Socialists .

Honors

  • A memorial was erected in the outer area of ​​the University of Innsbruck to commemorate excluded and expelled university members. His suicide was also thought of there in March 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Gaugusch : Who once was. The upper Jewish bourgeoisie in Vienna 1800–1938 . Volume 2: L-R . Amalthea, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85002-773-1 , p. 2909.
  2. ↑ About this he wrote the textbook for organ therapy with Julius Wagner-Jauregg .
  3. ↑ Thinking hour of the universities
personal data
SURNAME Bayer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1938
Place of death innsbruck