Hansjürgen Matthies

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Hansjürgen Matthies (born March  6, 1925 in Stettin ; †  August 22, 2008 in Magdeburg ) was a German pharmacologist and neuroscientist . He worked as a professor and institute director at the Medical Academy Magdeburg as well as the director of a non-university academy institute and is considered the nestor of neurobiological research in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the one also based in Magdeburg Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology will be continued.

Life

Hansjürgen Matthies was born in Stettin in 1925 , where he graduated from the Bismarck High School in 1943. He became a soldier during the Second World War and studied medicine in Vienna as a medical cadet from 1944 . In 1943 he joined the NSDAP . After British captivity and the end of the war, he studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1953 under Friedrich Jung at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he completed his habilitation in 1957 . He was a member of the SED . From 1957, Hansjürgen Matthies was acting director of the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Medical Academy in Magdeburg, which had been founded the year before .

In the following year he became professor with a teaching position, in 1959 full professor for pharmacology and in 1960 at the same time director of the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical Academy Magdeburg, where he also served as rector from 1962 to 1967 and from 1973 to 1979. With the founding of the Magdeburg Institute for Neurobiology and Brain Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , today's Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology , he was appointed its director. In 1990 he was reaching the age of 65. emeritus . He died in Magdeburg in 2008.

Awards

Hansjürgen Matthies was a corresponding member of the GDR Academy of Sciences from 1971 and a full member from 1973 . In addition, he received numerous state prizes and awards: 1963 the Rudolf Virchow Prize , 1964 the Artur Becker Medal in gold , 1965 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze , 1968 the National Prize of the GDR , 1983 the honorary title " Honored University Teacher of the GDR " and in 1989 the honorary title " Outstanding Scientist of the People ".

He was an honorary doctor of the Karl Marx University Leipzig (1985) and the Semmelweis University Budapest (1986).

Fonts (selection)

Hansjürgen Matthies published around 500 scientific publications in the course of his career . The main focus of his research interests were the cellular mechanisms of memory storage .

  • 10 years Medical Academy Magdeburg. Magdeburg 1964.
  • Mathematical modeling of life processes. Berlin 1972.
  • Neurobiology. Jena 1977 (as co-author; new edition Munich 1994).
  • Medical pharmacology in two volumes. Munich 1988.
  • Orotic acid: neurobiological and biochemical basis of its effects. Berlin 1989.
  • The development of neuroscience in the GDR. People, events and the memory. Edited posthumously by Renate Matthies, Henry Matthies, Jan Matthies, Janine Haschker, geb. Matthies. Klotz Verlag, Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main and Magdeburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88074-384-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harry Waibel : Servants of many gentlemen: Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Matthies, Hansjürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist and neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 2008
Place of death Magdeburg