Oscar Langendorff

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Oscar Langendorff (born February 1, 1853 in Breslau ; † May 10, 1908 in Rostock ) was a German physician and physiologist.

Scientific career

After studying medicine at the Universities of Breslau , Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau , Oscar Langendorff received his doctorate in 1875 at the Albertus University of Königsberg , where he worked as a research assistant in the following years. He completed his habilitation in 1879 with the physiologist Ludimar Hermann and from 1884 held the position of extraordinary professor. In 1886 Langendorff was elected as a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1892 Langendorff accepted a call to the University of Rostock , where he worked as full professor and director of the physiological institute until his death in 1908.

Langendorff became known above all for his experiments on the isolated perfused mammalian heart (the "Langendorff heart") in the Langendorff apparatus named after him . In addition, he was busy u. a. with aspects of breathing and the conduction of stimuli in the sympathetic and peripheral nervous system.

Langendorff is the namesake of the "Langendorff Prize for the best year-old achievement in physiology", which has been awarded since 2016.

Memberships

  • Leopoldina, Halle
  • Accademia medico-chirurgica, Perugia
  • L'Association Internationale de l'Institute Marey, Paris
  • Association for Scientific Medicine, Königsberg

Fonts

  • Physiological graph. A guide to the registration methods used in physiology , F. Deuticke, Leipzig: 1891.
  • Investigations on the surviving mammalian heart. In: Pflügers Arch . (Berlin) Volume 61, 1895, pp. 291-332.
  • Investigations on the surviving mammalian heart. II. On the influence of heat and cold on the heart of warm-blooded animals , Pflügers Arch. 66: 355-400, 1897.
  • Investigations on the surviving mammalian heart. III. Temporary irregularities in the heartbeat and their adjustment , Pflügers Arch. 70: 473–486, 1898.

literature

  • Heinrich Taegtmeyer: One hundred years ago. Oscar Langendorff and the birth of cardiac metabolism . In: Canadian Journal of Cardiology , Vol. 11 (1995) Dec; 11, pp. 1030-1035.
  • Heinz-Gerd Zimmer: The Isolated Perfused Heart and Its Pioneers . In: News in Physiological Science , Vol. 13 (1998), pp. 203-210.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gisela Teichmann: William Harvey and the cardiac output. In: internal medicine. Volume 19, 1992, No. 3, pp. 94-96, here: p. 95.
  2. ↑ News 2 - Oscar Langendorff Institute for Physiology. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Langendorff, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1908
Place of death Rostock