Heinrich Stilling

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Heinrich Stilling (born October 1, 1853 in Kassel , † June 11, 1911 in Lausanne ) was a German pathologist and university professor in Strasbourg and Lausanne.

Life

As the third son of the Jewish anatomist and surgeon Benedikt Stilling and brother of the ophthalmologist Jakob Stilling , Heinrich Stilling studied medicine at the University of Leipzig , the University of Bern and the Georg-August University of Göttingen . He was a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen (1873) and the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg (1874). In 1876 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He went to Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen as the second assistant at the Pathological Institute of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . For a while he switched to Friedrich von Esmarch's surgery in Kiel . He returned to Strasbourg and became an assistant to Adolf Kussmaul and Franz König in Göttingen. In 1881 he returned as first assistant to v. Recklinghausen back. He completed his habilitation in 1886. In 1889 he accepted the chair for pathology at the newly founded medical faculty in Lausanne. He turned down a call to the University of Geneva to succeed Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845–1904).

His areas of work were bone pathology (osteochondritis syphilitica, osteodystrophia deformans , experimental osteomalacia ), investigations on the chromaffin system ( adrenal glands , sympathetic nervous system ), transplants of tissues and organs and studies on the regeneration of smooth muscles . In 1892 Stilling was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He spoke five languages, was a bibliophile collector, and loved music.

Publications

  • with Wilhelm Pfitzner: About the regeneration of smooth muscles . Archive for Microscopic Anatomy, Vol. 28 (1886), pp. 396-412
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta . Virchows Archiv 115 (1889), p. 357

literature

Hermann Beitzke : Obituary for Heinrich Stilling . Negotiation reports of the German Society of Pathologists 1912, p. 488

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Ottermann: Benedict Stilling (1810–1879): District court surgeon in Cassel. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 4, 1986, pp. 253–287; here: p. 280 f.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 64/433; 189/20.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: An Observations on the Anatomy and Pathology of Lupus .
  4. ↑ H. Beitzke became Stilling's successor in Lausanne in 1911.
personal data
SURNAME Stilling, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1911
Place of death Lausanne