Otto Schultzen

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Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Otto Schultzen (born July 16, 1837 in Lissa near Posen , † December 7, 1875 in Neustadt-Eberswalde ) was a German medic.

Life

Schultzen studied from 1858 in Königsberg (Prussia) and Berlin and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Then he was assistant to Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs at the Berlin Charité .

With Marceli Nencki (1847–1901) he carried out physiological studies of urea and discovered that amino acids ( glycine and leucine ) are intermediate connections between protein and urea. With his friend Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925) he researched the behavior of benzene- derived hydrocarbons in the body.

In 1862 he received his habilitation and in 1871 he was appointed professor at the medical clinic of the University of Dorpat . In 1872 Bernhard Naunyn successfully brought him up for discussion as his successor at the University of Bern , but he was no longer able to take up this professorship: In the same year he suffered from a "severe melancholy depression", combined with frequent thoughts of suicide had to be committed to the rural insane asylum in Neustadt-Eberswalde . There he died at the age of 38.

family

In 1871, Schultzen married the singer Anna von Asten (1836–1903), “a lively and cheerful Viennese woman ”, who from then on performed under the name Anna Schultzen von Asten. She was a sister of Clara Schumann's piano student Julie von Asten .

Works

  • De inanitione accedit observatio et exploratio microscopio-chemica , Diss., Berlin: Schade, 1862
  • B. Henry William Fuller, The diseases of the heart and large vessels , translated from English by Otto Schultzen, Berlin: Schneider 1864 ( digitized version )
  • with Leopold Riess, on acute phosphorus poisoning and acute liver atrophy , in: Annalen des Charité Hospital , Volume 15 (1869), pp. 1–118 ( digitized ) - special print, Berlin: Schade, 1869
  • About the nitrogen turnover in Febris recurrens , in: Annalen des Charité-Krankenhauses , Volume 15 (1869), pp. 153-175 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Adolph Carl Peter Callisen, Medical Writer's Lexicon for Doctors, Surgeons, Obstetricians , Volume 17, Copenhagen 1833, p. 384 ( digital copy )
  • Julius Pagel, Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Physicians of the Nineteenth Century , 1901, Sp. 1554 ( digitized version )
  • Bernhard Naunyn, Memories, Thoughts and Opinions , Munich 1925 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naunyn (1925), p. 256
  2. ↑ Naunyn (1925), p. 256
personal data
SURNAME Schultzen, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultzen, Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Lissa near Poznan
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1875
Place of death Neustadt-Eberswalde