Hugo Fuchs (doctor)

Hugo Fuchs (born December 24, 1875 in Bornich , † October 8, 1954 in Darmstadt ) was a German anatomist and professor at the University of Göttingen and vertebrate morphologist.

Career

The pastor's son studied medicine in Halle adS and Würzburg, where he was awarded a Dr. med. has been awarded a doctorate. After stints in Erlangen and Innsbruck, he completed his habilitation in 1904 at the University of Strasbourg and was appointed adjunct professor there in 1910. After a position as chief physician in a field hospital, he went to Freiburg a. Br. And became an associate in 1919. Professor appointed at the University of Königsberg . In the same year he represented in Marburg (Lahn) and was appointed full professor of anatomy in Göttingen. There he was retired in 1941. Since 1909 Fuchs was a member of the Leopoldina , since 1921 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . His achievements lie in the field of embryonic development of the skull and the shoulder girdle of vertebrates , where he partly represented different theories than Ernst Gaupp .

Around 1920 Fuchs took a polemical approach against Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical theories . On April 1, 1933, Fuchs joined the NSDAP and in November 1933 signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . In May 1933, Fuchs applied for a professorship for anthropology and eugenics to be established in Göttingen.

Fonts

• Observations on secretion and ciliated cells , 1904
• From the angular duct of the arraus tortoise (Podocnemis expansa): (A new organ?) , 1931

Web links

• Hans-Jürg Kuhn, Art. In: Göttingen scholars (p. 394)