Helmke Schierhorn

Helmke Schierhorn (born October 13, 1934 in Magdeburg ; † August 10, 1986 there ) was a German anatomist and neurobiologist .

Life

Schierhorn passed his Abitur in 1953 at the Otto von Guericke Oberschule in Magdeburg . From 1953 to 1956 an apprenticeship as a chemical skilled worker at the company vocational school "Heinz Kapelle" of the VEB Fahlberg-List in Magdeburg- Westerhüsen followed.

From 1956 he studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After completing his studies in 1961, he became an assistant doctor to Anton Waldeyer (1901–1970) at the Anatomical Institute of Humboldt University. Schierhorn then took up a compulsory assistant job at the Medical Academy Magdeburg in order to obtain the full clinical license . From April 1966 he was assistant to Martin Meyer at the Anatomical Institute of the Medical Academy . Here he received his doctorate in 1967 with a thesis on special cells of the amphibian skin. He became a specialist in anatomy and in 1969 teaching assistant. From 1970 he worked as a senior physician .

Between 1969 and 1978 he headed the neuroanatomy working group of the Anatomical Institute. From 1970 to 1978 he was a member of the Scientific Council for the main research area neurobiology at the Magdeburg Medical Academy. In 1976 he completed his habilitation and from 1982 was a lecturer in anatomy.

He became known to a specialist audience through scientific work. Research focus was the neuro- histology . The proof of different distribution of the spines in the tip end dendrites goes back to him . Further work dealt with the change in the structure of neocortical nerve cells in the pyramidal tracts in older people. In addition, Schierhorn dealt with questions relating to the history of medicine . He published works on Johann Friedrich Meckel (1724–1774) and his grandson Johann Friedrich Meckel the Elder. J. (1781–1833), Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), Johann Christian Gustav Lucae (1814–1885), Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring (1755–1830) and Otto Deiters (1834–1863), who also received international attention found.

Helmke Schierhorn succumbed to a tumor in 1986 at the age of 51.

Fonts (selection)

• with Ruth Guderjahn and Sigrid Hinz: Medicine and Art: 15 years GDR, 10 years Medical Academy Magdeburg. Exhibition from October 4 to November 29, 1964, catalog Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, 1964.
• On the cytology and histotopography of the larval spherical cells in the epidermis of Bufo b. bufo and Bufo b. formosus: Amphibia, Salientia, Bufonidae. Dissertation . Medical Academy Magdeburg , 1967.
• with Rainer Schmidt: Contribution to the genealogy and craniology of the Meckel family. In: Negotiations of the Anatomical Society at the sixty-third meeting in Leipzig from April 4 to 6, 1968. Jena 1968/69, pp. 591–599.
• In memoriam Anton Waldeyer 1901–1970. In: Anatomischer Anzeiger . 129, pp. 457-470 (1971). PMID 4948342 .
• with Peter von Bossanyi: About the laminar distribution of the apical dendrite spines. In: Journal for microscopic-anatomical research. 86: 257-272 (1972).
• The development of the doctrine of the extra-riseal pathways. In: Nova Acta Leopoldina. New series 41, No. 217, 1975, pp. 97-133.
• Johann Friedrich Meckel (1724–1774). A bioergographic study. In: Anatomischer Anzeiger. 137 (1975), pp. 221-256.
• Postnatal development of the lamina V pyramidal cells in the sensorimotor cortex of the albino rat. In: Gegenbaur's morphological yearbook. 124, 1978, pp. 1-23, 24-42, 230-255.
• Topographical and applied anatomy of the urinary and male genital organs. Thieme Verlag, Leipzig 1982.
• Johann Friedrich Meckel the Younger as the founder of scientific teratology. In: Gegenbauer's Morphological Yearbook. 130: 399-439 (1984).
• with Thomas Klemm: grave monuments of important doctors in Magdeburg. In: Magdeburg leaves. 1984.
• The prosector and its position in the hierarchy of anatomical institutions is demonstrated above all in the anatomies in Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Rostock and Greifswald. In: Anatomischer Anzeiger. 159: 311-346 (1985).

literature

• Wilhelm Thal: Schierhorn, Helmke. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , pp. 627f. ( Article online ).
• Walter Kirsche : In memoriam Helmke Schierhorn (Oct. 13, 1934-Aug. 10, 1986). In: Z Mikrosk Anat Forsch. 102 (1988), pp. 353-363. PMID 3057754