Woldemar Mobitz

Woldemar Mobitz (born May 31, 1889 in Saint Petersburg , † April 11, 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German internist .

education and profession

The doctor's son Mobitz studied after graduating from 1908 in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he joined the Corps Rhenania Freiburg , and in Munich . In 1914 he passed his state examination and received his doctorate . After participating in the First World War , he worked at the surgical clinics in Berlin and Halle and in internal medicine at the clinics in Munich (I. Medical Clinic) and Freiburg. In Munich Mobitz completed his habilitation in 1924 with an examination of the heart block. After four years of teaching as a private lecturer, he was appointed associate professor and senior physician at the internal clinic in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1928.

From 1939 Mobitz was a permanent adjunct professor. In 1943 he took over the position of director of the medical clinic of the Magdeburg- Sudenburg city ​​hospitals , until the city was occupied by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War . From 1945 until his death in 1951 he was professor of internal medicine at the Freiburg University Medical Center.

power

His main areas of work were in the field of internal medicine, especially cardiovascular issues. From 1923 to 1924, articles on atrioventricular (AV) dissociation and heart block ( AV block ) appeared. Other focal points were pulmonary sclerosis (1924), circulatory regulation (1924), determining the heart rate (1926–1927), measuring the circulatory time of the blood with ethyl iodide (1930), Banti disease (1946), lung infiltrates (1947) and the medical use of isotopes (1949).

In addition, Mobitz was active on the advisory board of the German Medical Review since 1946 as editor.

Since 2001, the "Woldemar Mobitz Research Prize", endowed with EUR 6,000, has been awarded annually by the German Society for Cardiology .

Mobitz eponyms

• Mobitz-1 type AV block II ° type 1 (or Wenckebach type), cardiac arrhythmia.
• Mobitz-2 type AV block II ° type 2, cardiac arrhythmia.
• Mobitz interference dissociation Arrhythmia phenomenon with mostly incomplete dissociations between atrium and ventricle, whereby the atrial frequency is often below the ventricular frequency.

Works

• Contributions to the clinic of Graves' disease . Frankfurt am Main 1914.
• On the question of atrioventricular automatism. The interference dissociation . Dtsch Arch Klin Med 141 (1923) 257.
• About the incomplete disruption of the conduction of excitation between the atrium and ventricle of the human heart . Z Ges Exp Med 41 (1924) 180.
• About the normal histology of the conduction system and pathological-histological findings on blocked human hearts (with Kung, SK). Arch Exp Pathol Pharmakol 155 (1930) 295-330.

literature

• Eberhard J. Wormer : Syndromes of cardiology and their creators. Munich 1989, pp. 169-174.
• Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Berlin 1932, vol. 1, p. 1052.

Web links

• Literature by and about Woldemar Mobitz in the catalog of the German National Library