Julius Budge

Julius Budge (born September 11, 1811 in Wetzlar , † July 14, 1888 in Greifswald ) was a German anatomist.

Life

Budge was a general practitioner in Altenkirchen (Westerwald) from 1836 to 1842 . During this time he was already working scientifically. 1842 habilitation Budge at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn . It was in 1847 in Bonn associate professor and 1855 o. Professor . In 1851 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1856 he followed the call of the University of Greifswald to the chair of anatomy and physiology. He became known in the professional world through his award-winning work on the movement of the iris from 1855. At the same time as other researchers, he discovered the inhibitory effect of the vagus nerve on the heart's action , even if he misinterpreted his results. As an anatomist, he discovered in 1859 that as the striated muscles grew, not only did the thickness increase, but also the number of individual fibers. In the same year he realized that the liver is traversed by a capillary network that ends in the bile ducts.

Works

• The doctrine of vomiting. Based on experience and trials . Bonn 1840, facsimile, Saarbrücken 2007.
• Studies on the nervous system . Frankfurt am Main 1841–1842, Jäger'sche book, paper and map dealership.
• General pathology as an empirical science based on physiology . Bonn 1845.
• Memoranda of the Special Physiology of Man , Second revised and enlarged edition; Weimar 1850.
• New studies on the nervous system . Weimar 1851.
• About the movement of the iris . Brunswick 1855.
• Special Human Physiology: A Guide , 7th Probable Edition. Weimar 1857.
• Textbook of special human physiology , 8th edition. Leipzig: Voigt and Gunther, 1862.
• Compendium of Human Physiology . Leipzig 1864.

literature

• Paul von Grützner:  Budge, Ludwig Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 337-339.
• Christoph Lindenmeyer: Ludwig Julius Budge <1811-1888> and the priority dispute over the inhibition theory . Zurich: Juris-Verl., 1966 (Zurich, Med. F., Diss.).
• Lutz Sartor: "Mr. Dr, Budge is a Jew" - the dispute about the district physics office in Altenkirchen 1839/1840, combined with a biographical outline of Julius Budge (1811-1888) , in: Contributions to economic, social and Contemporary history of the Altenkirchen III district, ed. from the Altenkirchen district administration - district archive, Altenkirchen 1989, pp. 27–34.

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Budge in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Ernst Immanuel Bekker	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1867	Leopold George