Isidor Rosenthal

Isidor Rosenthal's grave in the central cemetery in Erlangen

Julius Isidor Rosenthal (born July 16, 1836 in Labischin , † January 2, 1915 in Erlangen ) was a German physiologist .

Rosenthal received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1859 , where he was a student of Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond . He stayed in Berlin as an assistant at the Institute of Physiology, was habilitated in 1862 and in 1867 assistant professor. In 1872 he was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Erlangen .

His research areas were the physiology of breathing and thermoregulation in warm-blooded animals. He was the author of several articles in Ludimar Hermann's textbook on physiology . In 1881 he became editor of the journal Biologisches Zentralblatt .

In 1877 he received the citizenship of Erlangen on application . Politically, he was involved in the Progressive People's Party . Rosenthal campaigned for the construction of the Erlangen water supply network and played a key role in the construction of the slaughterhouse . In 1906 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Erlangen and in 1908 he was awarded the title of Royal Privy Councilor . In 1909 he received an honorary doctorate from the Erlangen faculty of philosophy. In 1913 he retired.

Rosenthal was buried in the city's central cemetery because he had left the Jewish religious community.

His son Werner Rosenthal (1870–1942) was a well-known pathologist, and his wife Anna was the chairwoman of the Women's Association of the Red Cross.

Works

The breathing movements and their relationship to the vagus nerve. Berlin 1862.
To the knowledge of the thermoregulation in warm-blooded animals. Erlangen 1872.
Electricity teaching for doctors and electrotherapy. Erlangen 1862 (3rd edition together with Martin Bernhardt (1844–1915), 1882).
General physiology of muscles and nerves. Leipzig 1878 (2nd edition 1898).
Beer and brandy in your public health relations. Berlin 1881.
Lectures on public and private health care. Erlangen: Besol, 1887 (2nd edition 1890).

literature

Marco Ritter: Isidor Rosenthal. Festschrift of the Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen to celebrate its 200th anniversary in March 2008 (1836–1915). Researcher - doctor - politician. An important physiologist between emancipation and anti-Semitism in the 19th century. “Director” of the society (1877/81 and 1907/1908), keynote speaker at the celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1908 (= meeting reports of the Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen. NF Vol. 11, No. 1). Palm & Enke, Erlangen et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7896-0441-6 (also: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 2006).

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Rosenthal, Isidore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rosenthal, Julius Isidor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Labishin
DATE OF DEATH	January 2, 1915
Place of death	gain