Max Bürger (gerontologist)

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Max Ferdinand Bürger (born November 16, 1885 in Hamburg ; † February 5, 1966 in Leipzig ) was a German internist , pathophysiologist , nutritional and aging researcher. He founded gerontology . The discovery of the glucagon attributed to him , however, was not made by him, but by Charles Kimball and John Murlin at Rochester University in 1923.

Life

Bürger studied medicine in Würzburg , Kiel , Munich , Berlin and again Würzburg, where he received his doctorate in 1911. During the First World War , he worked as a medical officer. He completed his habilitation in 1918 in Kiel for the subject of internal medicine . In 1920, Bürger in Königsberg became senior physician, in 1922 professor. In 1929 he moved to Osnabrück, where he managed the new building of the municipal hospital as director of the internal department . From 1931 to 1937 he was full professor in Bonn and director of the university clinic there. After he had joined the NSDAP , the NS Lecturer Association and the NS Teachers Association in 1937 , he became full professor of internal medicine and director of the Leipzig University Medical Center . His main focus was on hepatitis and circulatory research and during the war he also carried out human experiments, which he reported in 1944 in the journal Luftfahrtmedizin : On the behavior of systolic blood pressure in people in acute oxygen deficiency .

After the end of the Second World War, Bürger again became full professor of internal medicine and director of the medical university clinic and held this position until his retirement in 1957. His successor was Rolf Emmrich .

In 1950 Bürger was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In the same year he was accepted as a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In 1952 he received the National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class. In 1955 he became a full member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences . In 1956 he was awarded the Paracelsus Medal .

Bürger worked particularly in the field of gerontology . Today's German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics is a successor to the “German Society for Age Research” founded by Max Bürger in Leipzig in 1938. In 1938, Bürger also founded the “Journal for Aging Research” together with the Halle physiologist Emil Abderhalden in Leipzig. In 1984 a Berlin geriatric hospital was named after him. Since 1905 he was a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg . On August 7, 1921, Bürger married Hedwig Gertrud Maria Maria Zeiss, a granddaughter of Carl Zeiss. He was the father of four children.

Since 1976 the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics has awarded the Max-Bürger-Preis every two years at its congresses. The award has been suspended since 2014 in order to have Max Bürger's biography examined scientifically. At the general assembly on September 26, 2014, the members decided with a clear majority to follow the recommendation of the presidium not to continue the naming. As of 2015, the Max Bürger Prize will be renamed "Research Prize of the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics".

The two combined institutes for Clinical Immunology and Virology at the University Hospital of Leipzig University are named after Max Bürger as the Max Bürger Research Center (MBFZ).

Works

  • Pathological-physiological propaedeutics. Berlin 1924.
  • Aging and disease . Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1947.
  • Osmotherapy. Stuttgart 1952.
  • Clinical misdiagnosis. Stuttgart 1953.
  • Diabetic angiopathy. Stuttgart 1954.
  • Introduction to pathological physiology . Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1956.
  • The chemical biomorphosis of the human brain. Berlin 1957.
  • Functional bottlenecks in the cycle. Munich 1957.

literature

  • Peter Schneck:  Bürger, Max . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Citizen, Max. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 219.
  • Hendrik Thiene: Max Bürger. Full professor of internal medicine and director of the Leipzig Medical University Clinic 1937–1945 and 1947–1957. 2010 (Dissertation, University of Leipzig, 2010).
  • Wolfgang Wippermann (2014) Expert opinion on Max Bürger's biography for the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • Press release of the German Society for Gerontology and Geriatrics from October 1st, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J.Biol. Chem (1923/24) 58,337
  2. ↑ Ralf Forsbach: The medical faculty of the University of Bonn in the Third Reich . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57989-5 , p. 152.
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 82–93.
  4. ↑ http://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/ Bezirk/lexikon/ siechenhaus.html
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 137 , 570.

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personal data
SURNAME Citizen, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bürger, Max Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1966
Place of death Leipzig