Gustav Ricker

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Gustav Wilhelm August Josef Ricker (born November 2, 1870 in Hadamar ( Hessen-Nassau ), † September 23, 1948 in Dresden ) was a scientist and doctor.

Life

Ricker attended high school in Hanau , where his father was a senior teacher. From 1889 he studied philosophy and medicine at the universities of the cities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich , Bonn and Berlin . With the surgeon Ernst von Bergmann in Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1893 after successfully defending his dissertation on the subject of “Comparative studies on muscular atrophy”. Ricker then worked at institutes in Zurich , Halle (Saale) and Rostock and enjoyed training as a pathologist . In 1897 he completed his habilitation in Rostock with Albert Thierfelder (subject: "Contributions to the study of tumors on the kidney").

The Catholic Ricker, who was close to the Social Democrats , did not succeed Thierfelder because of his confessions. Therefore, on June 1, 1906, he accepted the position of head of pathology at the city hospitals Altstadt and Sudenburg in Magdeburg . He advocated the formation of a medical academy here. The position as head of the Pathology Institute has Ricker to 1933 held until after the seizure of the Nazis was retired prematurely. Ricker therefore worked as a private scholar in Berlin and Dresden. The Society of Doctors in Vienna elected him a corresponding member in 1937.

Ricker fell ill with a vascular disease that he had contracted during experiments with radioactive mesothorium in Magdeburg and suffered from a neurological disease and diabetes mellitus .

Teaching

Ricker developed the concept of " relational pathology ", with which he wanted to break up the narrow view of the cellular pathology established by Rudolf Virchow . He saw the cause of pathological processes in a nerve process and not in a cell process. Ricker aimed to free pathology from pure medical expediency and to see humans as a physical-psychological unit.

Although he avoided congresses, Ricker is considered one of the most important pathologists of his time.

Honor

Gustav-Ricker-Strasse in Dresden

The city of Magdeburg named a street near his place of work ( Gustav-Ricker-Straße ) in his honor . Dresden also received a Prof.-Ricker-Straße .

The Gustav-Ricker-Krankenhaus Magdeburg were the clinics of the Sudenburg Hospital on Leipziger Strasse . The name was not continued with the formation of the full university.

Works

  • Draft of a relational pathology , 1905
  • Basic lines of a logic of physiology as a pure natural science , 1912
  • Pathology as natural science - Relational Pathology - For pathologists, physiologists, medical professionals , and biologists , 1924
  • Philosophical essays for doctors , 1936

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personal data
SURNAME Ricker, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ricker, Gustav Wilhelm August Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadamar (Hessen-Nassau)
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1948
Place of death Dresden