Karl Koester (pathologist)

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Portrait of Karl Koester from the Munich medical weekly (1905)

Karl Koester (born April 2, 1843 in Dürkheim an der Haardt , † December 2, 1904 in Bonn ) was a German pathologist . He was professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology at the universities of Giessen and Bonn .

Life

Koester studied medicine at the universities in Munich , Tübingen and Würzburg . In Munich he was a member of the AGV . At the Würzburg University doctorate he 1867 Dr. med. with Professor Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen with the dissertation on the finer structure of the human umbilical cord . It was published a year later by Beckerschen Buchdruckerei. He became Recklinghausen's assistant and also completed his habilitation two years later as a private lecturer in Würzburg . From 1870 to 1871 Koester took part in the Franco-German War .

In 1872 he accepted the call to the University of Giessen as a full professor for pathological anatomy and general pathology. At Easter 1874 Koester took over the management of the pathological-anatomical institute of the University of Bonn in the same capacity as the successor of Eduard von Rindfleisch . During his time in Bonn, Richard Strauss belonged to his close circle of friends with whom he was in lively correspondence. Koester was the author of numerous specialist publications which he published, among other things, in the negotiations of the Würzburg Medical Physical Society, in Virchow's archive and in the Rhenish Nature and Medicine. In 1888 his monograph On Myocarditis was published . From 1898 to 1899 he was the rector of Bonn University.

Karl Koester died of lung cancer on May 2, 1904, at the age of 61 in Bonn . Since 1880 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Publications (selection)

  • Cancroid with hyaline degeneration (Cylindroma Billroth's). Berlin 1867. ( digitized version )
  • On the finer structure of the human umbilical cord. (Dissertation) Würzburg 1868. ( digitized version )
  • The development of carcinomas and sarcomas. Würzburg 1869. ( digitized version )
  • Embolic endcartitis. Berlin 1878.
  • About freedom of movement for medical students at universities with German language. Bonn 1884.
  • About myocarditis. Bonn 1888.

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog. Volume 9, pages 279/280, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1906. ( digitized )
  • Julius Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Page 891/892, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901. ( digitized )
  • Julius Schwalbe (Ed.): German Medical Weekly . Volume 31, page 71 ( obituary ). Georg Thieme, Leipzig 1905.
  • Leopoldina - Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 41. Issue, page 16, hall 1906. ( digitized )

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personal data
SURNAME Koester, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köster, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Dürckheim an der Haardt
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1904
Place of death Bonn