Paul Hoffmann (Physiologist)

Paul Hoffmann (* June 19 ^{. Jul} / 1. July  1884 ^greg. In Tartu ; † 9. March 1962 in Freiburg ) was a German physiologist , among other things named after him H-reflex discovered.

Life

Hoffmann was born in Dorpat in the Russian Empire in 1884 as the son of the internist Friedrich Albin Hoffmann . He studied medicine in Berlin and Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1909. After two years as an employee of the Berlin University, he became an assistant at the Physiological Institute of the University of Würzburg in 1911 and completed his habilitation there in 1912 under Maximilian von Frey . In 1924 he was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Freiburg . In 1956 he retired in Freiburg.

Scientific contributions

Hoffmann's scientific work focused on the field of neurophysiology . His most important discovery was the H-reflex , an electroneurographic method of neurophysiology. In 1925 he was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

literature

• Albrecht Struppler:  Hoffmann, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 400 f. ( Digitized version ).
• P. Hoffmann, D. Buck-Gramcko , JD. Lubahn: The Hoffmann-Tinel sign . 1915., J Hand Surg (Br) 1993; 18: 800-805.
• JM Sansone, AM Gatzke, F. Aslinia, LA Rolak, SH Yale: Jules Tinel (1879-1952) and Paul Hoffman (1884-1962). In: Clinical medicine & research. Volume 4, Number 1, March 2006, pp. 85-89, PMID 16718952 , PMC 1435662 (free full text).
• Holger Münzel: Max von Frey. Life and work with special consideration of his sensory-physiological research. Würzburg 1992 (= Würzburg medical historical research , 53), p. 189 f. ( Paul Hoffmann ).