Heinrich Ewald Hering

Heinrich Ewald Hering (born May 3, 1866 in Vienna ; † December 16, 1948 in Papenhusen ) was the son of the physiologist Ewald Hering and an important physician himself.

Life

Hering studied in Prague and Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 1893 and worked at the Institute for Pathology until 1898. In 1895 he completed his habilitation and in 1901 was appointed associate professor. In 1913 he, meanwhile promoted to dean of the medical faculty and rector of Charles University in Prague , gave up these positions in favor of a professorship for pathophysiology at the Academy for Medical Training in Cologne, which a few years later became part of the re-established university. The young Bruno Kisch also moved from Prague to Cologne as Herings assistant.

Hering's research interests were in the physiology of the heart, the circulatory system and the nervous systems. Together with Eberhard Koch, he discovered the carotid sinus reflex , which is also known as the “herring reflex” in his memory. In recognition of his work on pressure receptors , he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1934 and 1937, but did not receive it. Hering retired in 1934; he died in Mecklenburg at the age of 82.

One of his more distant relatives was the also very successful physician Constantin Hering , whose father Carl Gottlieb Hering made a name for himself as a composer (including tomorrow, children, there will be something ).

In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

• On the theory of nerve activity . Leipzig, 1899.
• The second heart death . Berlin, 1917.
• Pathological physiology . Leipzig, 1921.
• The carotid pressure test . (In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 70: 1287–1290) Munich, 1923.
• The carotid sinus reflex on the heart and vessels . Dresden and Leipzig, 1927.
• Methodology for studying the carotid sinus reflexes . (In: Handbook of biological working methods) Berlin and Vienna, 1929.
• The change in the heart rate by changing the arterial blood pressure occurs as a reflex; at the same time a message about the function of the carotid sinus or the sinus nerves . (In: Pflüger's archive for the entire physiology of humans and animals ) 1924.

literature

• Zimmer, HG: Heinrich Ewald Hering and the Carotid Sinus Reflex . In: Clinical Cardiology , 24, 8, p. 485 f. (2004). DOI 10.1002 / clc.4960270813
• Anand N. Bosmia; Emanuela Binello; Christopher J. Griessenauer; R. Shane Tubbs; Mohammadali M. Shoja: Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering (1834-1918), Heinrich Ewald Hering (1866-1948), and the namesake for the Hering-Breuer reflex . In: Child's Nervous System 32 (2016), H. 9, pp. 1561-1565. DOI 10.1007 / s00381-015-2854-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Ewald Hering in the catalog of the German National Library