Hermann Adolf Alexander Schmidt
Hermann Adolf Alexander Schmidt (* 15 May July / 27 May 1831 greg. In Liiva , Muhu Island , Livonia Governorate ; † 10 April July / 22 April 1894 greg. In Tartu ) was a Baltic German physiologist who worked through his work on blood thickening had become known worldwide.
Life
Alexander Schmidt studied history at the Imperial University of Dorpat from 1850 , but soon switched to medicine. After receiving his doctorate in Dorpat in 1858, he continued his studies at the University of Vienna and Berlin University .
Under Felix Hoppe-Seyler he undertook his first own investigation into the flocculation of muscle fibers in Berlin. From 1866 to 1867 he worked with Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig in Leipzig. After the retirement of his old teacher Friedrich Heinrich Bidder, he followed him to the chair in Dorpat. Schmidt taught at the University of Dorpat until his death in 1894, of which he was rector from 1885 to 1889. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts (selection)
- About a double abortion of sheep with a rear split extending to the atlas . Dissertation, Dorpat 1858.
- About the fiber and the causes of its coagulation . In: Archive for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine , Leipzig, 1861, pp. 545–587 and pp. 675–721.
- More about the fiber and the causes of its coagulation . In: Archive for Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine , Leipzig, 1862, pp. 428–469 and pp. 533–564.
- About ozone in the blood . 1862. Habilitation thesis.
- Haematological Studies . EJ Karow, Dorpat 1865 ( digitized version ) from the Bavarian State Library.
- Again about ozone in the blood. Reply to Pokrowsky's treatise: "On the question of ozone in the blood about the fate of carbon dioxide in CO poisoning" . In: Archive for pathological anatomy and physiology and for clinical medicine ( Virchows archive ), Vol. 42 (1868), pp. 249-289.
- Contributions to the knowledge of milk . 1874.
- The doctrine of the fermentative coagulation phenomena in the proteinaceous animal body fluids. Summary report of the author's earlier work on pulp coagulation . Mattiesen, Dorpat 1876.
- To the blood theory . FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1892.
- Further contributions to the blood theory . Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1895.
literature
- Eberhard J. Wormer : Schmidt, Hermann Adolf Alexander von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 176 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Julius Pagel: Schmidt, Alexander , in: Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors of the Nineteenth Century . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901, Sp. 1508–1509.
Web links
- Hermann Adolf Alexander Schmidt . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat , Dorpat 1889
- http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2823.html
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the burial register of the university community in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu ülikooli kogudus)
- ↑ Member entry of Alexander Schmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 21, 2016.
- ↑ The article refers to a contribution by Wassilij Timotejewitsch Pokrowsky (1839–1877), professor of special pathology in Kiev, which he had published in Virchow's archive two years earlier .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Hermann Adolf Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liiva , Muhu Island , Livonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1894 |
| Place of death | Tartu , Livonia Governorate |