Hermann Dürck

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Hermann Ludwig Friedrich Franz Dürck (born February 11, 1869 in Munich ; † January 9, 1941 there ; internationally also Duerck ) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist .

origin

His parents were the director of the Bavarian commercial bank Friedrich Dürck (1842–1913) and his wife Maria Ludorff , a daughter of the Judiciary Ludwig Ludorff from Münster. The painter Friedrich Dürck was his grandfather.

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , he studied with Otto Bollinger at the University of Munich and Hans Chiari in Prague from 1887 and received his doctorate in Munich in 1892 . In 1897 he completed his habilitation in pathological anatomy and bacteriology and received the title of junior professor in 1902. In 1909 he moved as a full professor to the Institute for Pathology at the University of Jena , then in 1911 as director of the pathological institute of the Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich. In 1919 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Munich.

His extensive research included studies of beriberi , malaria , the pathological anatomy of bubonic plague, and studies of the etiology and histology of pneumonia . His name is associated with the term “Dürck fibers” or “Dürck nodes”, which describes chronic inflammatory infiltrates in the brain that are dangerous to the vascular system in connection with sleeping sickness ( African trypanosomiasis ).

family

He married Maximiliane von Ritter zu Groenesteyn (1890–1978) in Munich in 1914 , a daughter of the Bavarian envoy in Paris Freiherr Otto von Ritter zu Groenesteyn and his wife, Countess Karoline von Holnstein from Bavaria (1870–1915).

Publications

Dürck was the author of the work Atlas and Floor Plan of Special Pathological Histology , which was later translated and published in English under:

  • "Atlas and epitome of special pathologic histology. Circulatory organs, respiratory organs, gastrointestinal tract", 1900.
  • "Atlas and epitome of special pathologic histology, Liver; urinary organs; sexual organs; nervous system; skin; muscles; bones", 1901.

He also wrote atlas and outline of general pathological histology , translated and published in English as "Atlas and epitome of general pathologic histology" (1904).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see literature Dürck, Hermann (Ludwig, Friedrich, Franz), bacteriologist in the Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1886/87
  3. ↑ see literature Georg B. Gruber: Dürck, Hermann Ludwig Friedrich Franz in the NDB
  4. ↑ Medilexicon (definition of "Dürck nodes")
  5. ↑ WorldCat Identities (publications)
personal data
SURNAME Dürck, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dürck, Hermann Ludwig Friedrich Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and histologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1941
Place of death Munich