Johannes Linzbach
Alfred Johannes Linzbach (born December 26, 1909 , † March 24, 1984 ) was a German cardiologist and pathologist.
Linzbach received his doctorate in 1936 at the University of Bonn ( on a rare cardiac malformation ) and in 1938 became an assistant at the Pathological Institute of the University of Berlin. In 1942 he completed his habilitation in Berlin with a thesis on arteriosclerosis , became an associate professor there in 1948 and was temporarily head of the Charité for a short time in 1950 , but then moved to Berlin-Kreuzberg in the west, where he was head of pathology at the Am Urban hospital . In 1954 he became a full professor at the University of Marburg and in 1960 at the University of Göttingen . In 1978 he retired.
The term critical heart weight comes from him and he dealt with the heart of old age and with arteriosclerosis.
1967/68 he was chairman of the German Society for Cardiology . In 1984 he received the Carl Ludwig Medal of Honor . In 1959 he was one of the editors of the Fischer Lexikons Medizin.
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| SURNAME | Linzbach, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1909 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1984 |