Ludwig Burkhardt (physician, 1903)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ludwig Burkhardt (born October 31, 1903 in Würzburg ; † July 6, 1993 there ) was a German pathologist and anthropologist .

Life

Burkhardt attended the Melanchthon grammar school in Nuremberg . As the son of the surgeon Ludwig Burkhardt , he studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg after graduating from high school . On May 11, 1924 he was reciprocated as Burkhardt IV and Koaetane by Karl Waltzinger in the Corps Moenania . In 1929/30 he was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in embryology at Cornell University in Ithaca (City, New York) , at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole (Massachusetts) and at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1930 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.

Würzburg and Giessen

From 1930 he was assistant to Hans Petersen in the Würzburg anatomy department. There he wrote the first six publications that dealt with embryology and bone growth. In 1932 he went to Georg Herzog in the pathology department of the Hessian Ludwig University . The newly emerging tissue engineering was the focus of the research work. He made no secret of his rejection of National Socialism . Therefore denounced , he had to retire from the Giessen university service in 1933. He returned to Würzburg and was in 1933/34 as assistant to the Emergency Association of German Science with Martin Benno Schmidt in the Würzburg pathology department. Because of his political attitude, he had to give up this position and his university plans.

Munich

In 1934 he went to Ludwig Singer at Schwabing Hospital as an assistant . Technical possibilities such as tissue engineering were not available. In continuation of his scientific work, he therefore combined his developmental interest, growth and skeletal research, with the abundant autopsy material of an urban prosecution . The focus was on the pathology of the constitution . He completed his habilitation through Max Borst in 1938 as an external student at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Pathology. The Venia Legendi was refused to him at the objection of the leaders in the National Socialist German Lecturer Association . He was called up as a medical officer for the Wehrmacht and temporarily served as an advisory pathologist for the Air Force . 1945/46 he took over the prosecution at the municipal hospitals in Augsburg . In 1946 he was finally appointed private lecturer , and moved to the Pathological Institute of the University of Munich as a prosector and conservator . After the death of Max bristle he directed it 1946-1948 interim basis until the appointment of Werner Hueck . At the same time he was a consultant at the American Military Hospital in Schwabing . In 1949 he was appointed associate professor and head of the pathological institute in the Klinikum rechts der Isar . At that time he was preparing to transform the clinic into the medical faculty of the Technical University of Munich . Scientifically, he devoted himself more and more to bone pathology. The last of his 56 publications is the large monographic representation of cranial pathology in the handbook by Friedrich Henke and Otto Lubarsch . Retired in 1969, he devoted himself to Greek vase painting . Soon he became a specialist in eye cups .

Works

  • About the connection between epithelium and connective tissue on the tongue . Zschr. Zellforsch. Abt. B, 5 (1927), pp. 397-399.
  • with Hans Petersen: About remodeling in growing bones . Zschr. Zellforsch. Abt. B, 7 (1928), pp. 55-61.
  • Construction and performance of the eye of some American urodeles . Zschr. Biol. Dept. C: Zschr. Cf. Physiol. 15 (1937), pp. 637-651.
  • Growth and design processes in the event of malnutrition as a result of vitamin B deficiency . Microscopic anat. Research 34 (1933), pp. 34-62.
  • New island formation in the pancreas with stenosis of the excretory duct due to pancreatic head carcinoma . Vichows Arch. Path. Anat. 296 (1936), pp. 655-665.
  • On mortality in Bavaria (Munich) according to anthropological and anatomical studies . Zschr. Human Vererb.-Konstit.lehre 26 (1942), pp. 389-413.
  • The individuality of the norm. On the concept of the norm in pathology along with remarks on variability as a borderline area of ​​pathology . DMW 73 (1948), pp. 339-340.
  • Residual nitrogen value and anatomical kidney findings. Post-mortem examinations . Virchows Arch. Path. Anat. 315 (1948), pp. 548-556.
  • Relationship between diabetes and tuberculosis from the pathological-anatomical point of view . Erg. total Tuberculosis research. 11 (1953), pp. 269-316.
  • with F. Hartl and Max Eder : About the remodeling and structural types of the vertebral cancellous bone as an expression of general principles of bone modeling . Rat. Dtsch. Ges. Path. (1955), pp. 250-259.
  • with Carl G. Schirren : A Sarcoma idiopathicum multiplex haemorrhagicum (Kaposi) with brain metastases . Arch. Clin. exp. Dermat. 201, pp. 99-105 (1955).
  • Pathological anatomy of the skull in its relation to the content, special pathology of the skull skeleton , in: Henke / Lubarsch: Handbuch der Spezial Pathologische Anatomie und Histologie IX / 7 . Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 1970, pp. 1–352.

literature

  • M. Eder: Ludwig Burkhardt (October 31, 1903 to July 6, 1993) . Rat. Dtsch. Ges. Path. 78: 662-664 (1994).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 101/783
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary by M. Eder
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the development mechanics of the auxiliary organs of the eye .
  4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Anatomical-statistical investigations on constitutional pathology together with a brief review of the current type theory.
  5. ↑ The Pathological Institute of the LMU on Thalkirchner Straße (LMU)
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burkhardt, Ludwig Max Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist, embryologist and anthropologist in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1993
Place of death Wurzburg