Otto Kestner

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Otto Kestner (born Cohnheim ; born May 30, 1873 in Breslau , Silesia , † February 21, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor and physiologist .

Life

Otto Kestner was born in Breslau in 1873 as the son of the pathologist Julius Friedrich Cohnheim of Jewish descent and his wife Martha, a daughter of the Justice Council Otto Lewald. Until his Protestant baptism in 1916 it was called Cohnheim. As a student he studied at the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . He then studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and Leipzig University (state examination) until 1896 . The doctorate to Dr. med. took place in 1896 with the dissertation on the hydrochloric acid binding capacity of albumoses and peptones by Wilhelm Kühne in Heidelberg. He completed his habilitation in 1898 with a thesis on resorption in the small intestine and in the abdominal cavity . He was an assistant to Wilhelm Erb and taught from 1900 as lecturer the specialist Physiological Chemistry .

Kestner examined the digestive juices. He was the first to describe and name the enzymes trypsin and erepsin (peptidases). In 1903 he became an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg. In 1904 he held a visiting professorship at Boston University . In 1906 he became assistant to Ivan Pavlov at the International Congress of Physiology in Moscow . From 1908 to 1913 he carried out studies on marine animals in Naples . In 1913 he became an associate professor at the Hamburg-Eppendorf Clinic . From 1914 to 1918 he served as an aviation doctor . In 1919 he became full professor and institute director in Hamburg . Together with the German doctor and naturalist Carl Haeberlin , Kestner set up a climate station in Wyk auf Föhr . After he had signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state by the professors at the German universities and colleges in November 1933 under the threat of a student boycott and professional endangerment as a non-Aryan university professor , he was forced to retire on June 30, 1934. A stumbling block in front of the main building of the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center reminds of Otto Kestner. In 1923 he became a member of the Masonic lodge Ferdinande Caroline in Hamburg .

In 1939 he emigrated with his wife to Margate in Kent, from May to September 1940 interned as enemy aliens on the Isle of Man . Before returning to Hamburg in 1949, he worked at various institutes in Great Britain (including the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen , the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital in Margate and the School of Agriculture in Cambridge ).

His daughter was the composer Felicitas Kukuck .

Fonts

  • About the gas exchange of the smooth muscles , Heidelberg 1910.
  • On the physiology and pathology of gastric digestion , Heidelberg 1910.
  • The permanent contraction of the smooth muscles , Heidelberg 1911.
  • About the gas exchange in animals with smooth and striated muscles , Heidelberg 1911.
  • On the physiology of the pancreas , Heidelberg 1912.
  • Internal Secretion , Bucharest 1918.
  • How do I feed my school child? , Hamburg 1919.
  • The parties in England, America and France , Hamburg 1919.
  • Human nutrition , Berlin 1924.

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SURNAME Kestner, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohnheim, Otto (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1953
Place of death Hamburg