Kurt Felix (medic)
Kurt Arthur Alfred Oskar Felix (born June 3, 1888 in Würzburg , † August 2, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physiologist .
Life
Kurt Arthur Alfred Oskar Felix was the son of the anatomist Walther Felix and his wife Natalie Susanne, née Leibert, the daughter of a landowner from Heidelberg. The surgeon Willi Felix was his brother.
Kurt Felix studied medicine in Freiburg, Zurich, Würzburg and Munich from 1907 to 1912.
Felix became an assistant at the Physiological Institute of the University of Heidelberg in 1913, received his doctorate in 1914 with a thesis on the synthesis of uric acid in the organism of chickens , and after the war-related interruption due to his participation in the First World War, he received his habilitation for physiology and physiological chemistry in Heidelberg in 1921 . In 1925 he was appointed head of the laboratory of the 2nd Medical Clinic and associate professor in Munich. In Munich he supported Friedrich Müller in editing the standard work Pocket Book of Medical-Clinical Diagnostics created by Otto Seifert and Müller . In 1935 he went to the University of Frankfurt am Main as full professor and director of the Institute for Vegetative Physiology .
Kurt Felix's scientific focus was on protein research, where he was able to gain groundbreaking insights in his field of research.
In 1939 Kurt Felix was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Kurt Felix was a member of the German Society for Internal Medicine and from 1947 to 1959 President of the Society for Physiological Chemistry .
Fonts
- Contribution to the synthesis of uric acid in the chicken organism. 1914
- Physiological chemistry. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1951
literature
- Hans Michael Körner (Ed.): Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: A – GKGSaur, Munich 2005, p. 500
Web links
- Member Post by Kurt Felix at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Literature by and about Kurt Felix (medical practitioner) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Seifert, Friedrich Müller: Pocket book of medical-clinical diagnostics. JF Bergmann , Munich 1886; 50th edition 1941; from 1942 (55th edition) to 1966 (69th edition) ed. by Hans Kress von Kressenstein , Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1966, here: p. IV f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Felix, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Felix, Kurt Arthur Alfred Oskar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1960 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |