Martin Gülzow

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Martin Walter Rudolf Bruno Gülzow (born May 10, 1910 in Kemnitz (near Greifswald) , † October 5, 1976 in Rostock ) was a German internist and endocrinologist . From 1949 he was a professor at the University of Greifswald and from 1957 at the University of Rostock , where he also headed the medical clinic until 1973. The main focus of his research was the diseases of the pancreas .

Life

Martin Gülzow was born in Kemnitz near Greifswald in 1910 and passed his Abitur at Greifswald grammar school after attending elementary school in Neuendorf near Kemnitz . He then studied medicine in Vienna , Munich and Greifswald. At the University of Greifswald he passed his state examination in 1934, then he became an assistant to Gerhardt Katsch . After his habilitation in 1941 on pancreatic enzymes , he became a lecturer in internal medicine and radiology at the medical faculty. In 1949 he was appointed professor.

In 1950 he took over the internal department of the Stralsund district hospital as a senior physician, where he was medical director from 1954. In 1957 he was appointed professor of internal medicine at the University of Rostock , where he was also director of the medical clinic until 1973. In addition, from 1956 he held a professorship for internal medicine and occupational diseases at the German Academy for Medical Training in Berlin . Together with the internist Friedrich Müller from Greifswald, he founded the “Medical-Scientific Society of Mecklenburg internists” in 1963. Of the 259 publications by Martin Gülzow, a large number deals with the pancreas .

Martin Gülzow was from 1962 a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and from 1964 a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , in 1968 he received the honorary title of Senior Medical Officer . He died in Rostock in 1976 . Since 1980, in memory of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, he has been awarded the Martin Gülzow Prize , donated by Solvay Arzneimittel , for fundamental or pioneering work in the field of clinical gastroenterology .

Works (selection)

  • Gastroenterology. Jena 1969, Jena and Stuttgart 1974 (as editor)
  • Diseases of the excretory pancreas. Jena 1975, Jena and Stuttgart 1995 (as editor)

literature

  • Gülzow, Martin . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 169.
  • Gülzow, Martin . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 126.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Society of Internists in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  2. ↑ German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases: Awards and Honors , on the DGVS website, accessed on 23 August 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Gülzow, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gülzow, Martin Walter Rudolf Bruno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gastroenterologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemnitz (near Greifswald)
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1976
Place of death Rostock