Klaus-Joachim Zülch

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Klaus-Joachim Zülch (1978)

Klaus-Joachim Fürchtegott Zülch (born April 11, 1910 in Allenstein ; † December 2, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German neuroscientist, especially brain researcher, with contributions to neurology , neuropathology , neurophysiology , neuroradiology .

Life

Klaus-Joachim Zülch was the son of the Lord Mayor of Allenstein, Georg Zülch . He attended the state high school here, which he graduated from high school in 1928. He completed his studies of medicine at the Universities of Marburg , where he became a member of the Marburg fraternity of Germania in the summer semester of 1928 , Rostock , Vienna , Berlin and Heidelberg with the state medical examination in Berlin. During the medical assistant time 1935 to 1936 he worked with Otfrid Foerster in Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1936 with his thesis on primary cerebellar atrophy .

Zülch received further training in neurology and neuropathology from 1936 with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation from Georg Schaltbrand at the University of Würzburg . It was there that the long and fruitful collaboration with Wilhelm Tönnis began , who entrusted him with the establishment and organization of the department for tumor research and experimental neuropathology when he moved to Berlin-Buch in 1937. Despite his duties as a military doctor and department doctor in hospital departments for brain injured persons from 1939 to 1945, Zülch was able to work scientifically at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (KWI) for brain research in Berlin-Buch and to do his habilitation at Berlin University in 1940. Thousands of human brains were stored in glass vessels at the KWI.

With the reopening of the department for tumor research at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Langendreer (Bochum) in 1947, Zülch entered there, he completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1948 and was a visiting lecturer at the Neurological University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf from 1948 to 1950 , where he 1949 was appointed adjunct professor for neurology.

In 1951, Zülch was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and head of the newly established Department of General Neurology in Cologne . In 1959, Zülch was appointed director of the neurological clinic at the Cologne-Merheim hospital . Zülch held this dual function as director of the Neurological Clinic Cologne-Merheim and the Department of General Neurology of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research until his retirement in 1978.

The scientific work of Zülch is characterized by several topics with clinical breadth extending to the entire neurology, neuropathology and neurosurgery . He was occupied with the work on the pathology and biology of brain tumors and cerebral circulatory disorders. The results of these studies have appeared in a series of monographs, books and atlases in several editions and languages ​​and formed the basis for the classification of brain tumors by the WHO ( World Health Organization ). He presented this for the first time in his contribution to the Handbuch der Neurosirurgie (eds. Tönnis and Olivecrona) and in Classification of Brain Tumors (Report of an International Symposium in Cologne, August 30 to September 1, 1961, Springer 1964). In the field of cerebrovascular diseases, his work on the pathogenesis and localization of cerebral infarcts and mass hemorrhages should be mentioned. He edited the autobiography of Wilhelm Tönnis and wrote a biography of Otfried Foerster.

For his scientific work, Zülch was recognized by 15 honorary memberships in national and international societies.

Fonts

  • Brain Tumors: Their Biology and Pathology, Springer US 1957
  • The Cerebral Infarct: Pathology, Pathogenesis, and Computed Tomography, Springer 1985
  • Editor with AL Woolf: The classification of brain tumors, Report of an International Symposium in Cologne 1961, Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum, Springer Verlag 1964
  • Atlas of Gross Neurosurgical Pathology, Springer 1975
  • Atlas of the Histology of Brain Tumors / Histological Atlas of Brain Tumors, Springer 1971

Memberships and honors

literature

  • Heiko Bewermeyer, Hans-Dieter Mennel: Klaus Joachim Zülch: an important neurologist and neuropathologist . Stuttgart; New York: Schattauer, 2006. ISBN 3-7945-2477-2 .
  • Heiko Bewermeyer, Hans Dieter Mennel: Klaus Joachim Zülch: Neurologist in the war - war neurologist . In: Series of publications by the German Society for the History of Neurology. 14, 2008, pp. 421-440.
  • Annegret Lucie Henning: Klaus Joachim Zülch: his life; his work; Catalog raisonné. University of Lübeck, 2004 (dissertation), urn : nbn: de: gbv: 841-20061214374 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Saßenhausen: Directory of the living, deceased and former members of the Marburg fraternity Germania. Private print, 1999.
  2. ↑ Registration of Klaus-Joachim Zülch in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 157 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Zülch, Klaus-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zülch, Klaus-Joachim Fürchtegott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Olsztyn , Poland
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1988
Place of death Berlin , Germany