Max Cloëtta

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Max Cloëtta, 1914

Max Cloëtta , also written Max Cloetta (born July 21, 1868 in Zurich ; † June 23, 1940 ibid), was a Swiss pharmacologist .

Live and act

He was the son of the Swiss pharmacologist Arnold Leonhard Cloëtta and Maria Locher, daughter of the Zurich surgeon Heinrich Locher (1800–1865). Max Cloëtta studied medicine in Geneva and Zurich . After taking the medical state examination in Zurich in 1892, he worked as an assistant to Oswald Schmiedeberg in Strasbourg . In Zurich, he completed his habilitation in pharmacology in 1897 and was a. o. Professor with the teaching position for pharmacology and forensic toxicology and finally in 1907 full professor with teaching obligation for experimental pathology and therapy. When he became dean of the medical faculty in 1910, he sat down a. a. for the appointment of Ferdinand Sauerbruch as successor to the sick Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein (Ferdinand Sauerbruch and his wife Ada belonged to the circle of friends of the Cloëtta family in Zurich). He turned down appointments to Göttingen (1908), Prague (1911) and Munich (1917) and was elected rector of the University of Zurich in 1914.

His studies on the active ingredients of digitalis led to the first pure digitalis preparation with a constant, chemically controllable composition, which was marketed very successfully by Roche from 1904 under the name "Digalen".

Publications (selection)

  • In: Archives of Experimental Pathology and Pharmacology
    • 45, 1901. To the knowledge of the representation and composition of the digitalis glycosides
    • 50, 1903. About the behavior of morphine in the organism and the causes of adaptation to it
    • 59, 1908. On the influence of chronic digitalis treatment on the normal and pathological heart
    • Supplementary volume 1908 (Festschrift Oswald Schmiedeberg), pp. 119–125: On the behavior of atropine in animals of different sensitivity (digital copy )
    • 63, 1910. A new methodology for studying pulmonary circulation
    • 103, 1924. Chemical-physical studies on the theory of anesthesia (together with H. Thomann)
  • About getting used to poisons and the like Medicines , issued by the University of Zurich, 1914
  • with Ferdinand Flury , Erich Hübener , Heinrich Zangger : Textbook of Toxicology for Study and Practice, Springer 1928

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 124 f. and 157.
personal data
SURNAME Cloëtta, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1940
Place of death Zurich