Hans Paul Bernhard Gierke

Hans Paul Bernhard Gierke

Hans Paul Bernhard Gierke (born August 19, 1847 in Stettin , † May 8, 1886 in Schöneberg near Berlin ) was a German anatomist.

He attended high schools in Bromberg and Stettin. Then he studied natural sciences and medicine in Berlin , Vienna , Leipzig , Würzburg , Breslau and Munich . Gierke received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1872 and then went to Breslau, where he worked in the Physiological Institute. In Würzburg since 1874, he became a prosector for comparative anatomy and histology with Albert von Kölliker . In 1876 he went to Japan on the recommendation of Kölliker, as professor of anatomy at the Imperial University of Tokyo . However, he returned to Germany as early as 1881 for health reasons. In October 1881 Gierke accepted an assistant position at the Physiological Institute of the University of Breslau and in 1882 was appointed professor extraordinarius. He died on May 8, 1886 in a mental hospital in Schöneberg near Berlin.

Works

• The parts of the medulla oblongata, the injury of which impedes the movements of the breath, and the center of the breath. In: Archives for the entire physiology of humans and animals. Volume 7, 1873, pp. 583-600. doi: 10.1007 / BF01613350
• Contributions to the knowledge of the elements of the central nervous system. In: Wroclaw Medical Journal. Volume 4, 1882, pp. 157, 172.
• The supporting substance of the central nervous system. In: Neurological Centralblatt. Volume 2, (16, 17), 1883, pp. 361-369, 385-392.
• Japanese painting. In: Westermannsmonthshefte. Volume 54, 1883, pp. 202-219, 324-340.
• About medicine in Japan in old and new times. In: Wroclaw Medical Journal. 1882, pp. 64, 139.
• About medicine in Japan in old and new times. In: German archive for the history of medicine and medicinal geography. Volume 7, 1884, pp. 1-15.
• About medicine in Japan in old and new times . In: Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. Volume 60, 1882, pp. 18-30 / 1883.
• The zoological station in Naples . T. Fischer, 1884.
• Dyeing for microscopic purposes. In: Journal for Scientific Microscopy and Microscopic Technology. 1, 62-100 ; 372-408 ; 497-557 , 2, 13-36 ; 164-221 , 1885.
• On the question of the respiratory center. In: Central sheet for the medical sciences. Volume 23, 1885, pp. 593-596.
• Staining Tissues in Microscopy . In: American Monthly Microscopical Journal. Volume 6, 1886, pp. 13f, 31f, 52f, 70f, 97f, 150f.
• The supporting substance of the central nervous system. In: Archives for microscopic anatomy. 25, 1, 1885, pp. 441-554. doi: 10.1007 / BF02966381 ; Volume 26, No. 1, pp. 129-228. doi: 10.1007 / BF02954585

literature

• Necrologist. In: Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. Volume 64, 1886, pp. 318-319.
• JL Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin / Vienna 1901, p. 598.
• Obituary. In: Deutsche Kolonialzeitung. Volume 3, 1886, p. 338.
• Obituary. In: Leopoldina. 1886, p. 114.
• Hans-Ulrich Wegener: Prof. Dr. Hans Gierke August 19, 1847 to May 8, 1886. Munich 2016.