Paul Morawitz

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Paul Morawitz in 1923

Paul Oskar Morawitz (born April 3, 1879 in Saint Petersburg , † July 1, 1936 in Leipzig ) was a German internist and physiologist who was best known for his work on blood clotting .

life and work

Paul Morawitz and his family moved from Saint Petersburg to Blankenburg (Harz) in 1889 . He received his doctorate in 1901 after studying in Jena , also in Munich and Leipzig, passed the state medical examination in Göttingen and began working in the field of coagulation physiology in Tübingen in the autumn of 1903 under his sponsor Ludolf von Krehl .

After his habilitation in Heidelberg (1907), he became head of the medical university polyclinic in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1909 . He became professor and director of the medical clinic in Greifswald in 1913. During World War I he served as a military doctor and fell seriously ill with typhus . In 1921 he was called to Würzburg , where he took over the management of the medical clinic in the newly built Luitpold Hospital . He had refused a previous call to Marburg. In 1926 he became head of the Leipzig Medical Clinic. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Morawitz is valid because he was able to prove Alexander Schmidt's fundamental theories on the theory of coagulation and, moreover, successfully expanded it to include findings on the more precise course of the processes taking place, which he had published between 1903 and 1905, as the founder of the classic theory of blood coagulation. His research on the physiology and pathology of blood brought him international recognition.

In his honor, the German Cardiac Society awards the "Paul Morawitz Prize" every year.

Publications (selection)

  • For knowledge of the cartilage capsules and chondral balls of the hyaline cartilage. In: Archive for microscopic anatomy and development history 60, 1902, pp. 66–99
  • Clinical studies on blood distribution and volume. Medical habilitation thesis, 1908 (= Volkmann's lecture, 162)
  • The clotting of the blood. In: Oppenheimer's handbook of the biochemistry of humans and animals. 2.2, 1909, pp. 40-69
  • Blood and blood diseases. In: Handbook of Internal Medicine. IV, edited by L. Mohr and R. Staehelin, Berlin 1912, pp. 92-319
  • Textbook of clinical diagnosis of internal diseases. Leipzig 1920, 2nd edition, ibid. 1922
  • The blood diseases in practice. Munich 1923
  • Epidemic polio (poliomyelitis anterior acuta, Heine-Medin disease). In: Handbook of internal medicine by Mohr-Staehlin. 1934
  • Hereditary and constitutional factors in some blood disorders. In: Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift 83, 1936, p. 5073.
  • with Ludolf von Krehl : internal medicine. Contains the libraries of Professors Ludolf von Krehl and Paul Morawitz, Lorentz Verlag Leipzig 1938.

literature

Honors

  • In the Heidelberg Medical University Clinic ( Ludolf von Krehl Klinik ), a patient ward is named after Paul Morawitz. (This both at the clinic location in Bergheimer Strasse and after the clinic moved to Neuenheimer Feld in 2004). The University Clinic of Würzburg also has a cardiological station named after Morawitz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anne-Marie Mingers, p. 55.
  2. ↑ Anne-Marie Mingers, p. 55
  3. ^ Anne-Marie Mingers: Famous Scientists in Würzburg and Their Contributions to Hemostaseology. In: Würzburger medical history reports 8, 1990, pp. 73–83; here: p. 77.
personal data
SURNAME Morawitz, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morawitz, Paul Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and physiologist, founder of the theory of blood coagulation
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1936
Place of death Leipzig