Paul Roethig

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Oskar Moritz Paul Roethig , also Paul Röthig (born April 24, 1874 in Berlin ; † April 4, 1940 there ) was a German neurologist , neuroanatomist and Charlottenburg local politician.

Life

His parents were the mathematics teacher Johann Wilhelm Oscar Roethig (1833–1903) and Friederike Joaneth Marie Hayn. Roethig studied medicine in Freiburg and Berlin , where he received his doctorate on January 28, 1898. After completing his doctorate, Roethig worked at the Anatomical and Biological Institute of Berlin University with Oskar Hertwig , Hermann Munk and Hans Virchow . He also worked in Frankfurt a. M. as head of department with Ludwig Edinger (1908), in Amsterdam with Ariëns Kappers and in the zoological station of the Swedish Academy of Sciences Kristineberg near Fiskebäckskil (1909). In 1914 he became assistant to Wilhelm von Waldeyer and head of the brain anatomy department.

From 1914 to 1916 he took part in the First World War as a volunteer doctor in field hospitals in France.

In 1919 he was elected to the paid city council and in 1931 he was finally retired as a municipal civil servant.

In 1918 Roethig was appointed adjunct professor. In 1930 he became an honorary professor for comparative brain research at Berlin University. On April 7, 1933, his license to teach was revoked due to the law to restore the civil service . Rudolf Fick managed to get Roethig to keep his retirement pension. Shortly afterwards, on the initiative of Hermann Stieve , Prof. Fick's successor, Roethig lost his study in 1938. He had a nervous breakdown and died in a mental hospital.

Scientific achievements

Roethig was mainly concerned with the comparative neuroanatomy of the lower vertebrates. In 1904 he published the handbook of embryological technology . His last major work on the gymnophion brain has not been published.

Works

  • About lens regeneration . Berlin: G. Schade, 1898
  • About the structure of the ganglion cell . Medical Week 50 (2), pp. 511-515, 1900
  • Handbook of Embryological Technique . Wiesbaden: Bergmann, 1904
  • Development of the elastic fibers . Zeitschrift für Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte 17, pp. 300–336, 1909
  • Olfactory tracts, septum and thalamus in Didelphys marsupialis . Treatises of the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 31, pp. 1-19, 1910
  • Contributions to the study of the central nervous system of vertebrates. III. On the phylogenesis of the hypothalamus . Folia neurobiologica 5, pp. 913-927 1911.
  • Cell arrangements and fiber strands in the forebrain of Siren lacertina . Treatises of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1911
  • Contributions to the study of the central nervous system of vertebrates. 5. The cell arrangements in the forebrain of amphibians, with special consideration of the septal nuclei and their comparison with the conditions in Testudo and Lacerta. , 1912
  • Ether as a fixative . Journal for Scientific Microscopy and Microscopic Technology 38, p. 339, 1921
  • Contributions to the study of the central nervous system of vertebrates. 8. Via the amphibian diencephalon . Archives for microscopic anatomy and development mechanics 98, pp. 616–645, 1923 doi : 10.1007 / BF02108346
  • Some experience with technical methods for studying smaller brains . Journal for microscopic-anatomical research 24, pp. 399-411, 1931

literature

  • Manfred Stürzbecher . Berlin doctors: names that hardly anyone mentions anymore. Episode 5: Prof. Dr Paul Röthig (1874-1940) . Berliner Ärzteblatt. 1980; 93: pp. 756-758.
  • Jürgen Peiffer : Brain research in Germany 1849 to 1974: Letters on the development of psychiatry and neurosciences as well as on the influence of the political environment on scientists . Berlin: Springer, 2004, p. 1109. ISBN 3-540-40690-5 .
  • Jürgen Peiffer: The expulsion of German neuropathologists 1933–1939 . "Neurologist". 69 (2), pp. 99-109, 1998. doi : 10.1007 / s001150050245 . PMID 9551453

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
  2. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NZC3-JDW
  3. ↑ Hugo Spatz . The comparative morphology of the brain before and after Ludwig Edinger. Review and Outlook. In: Ludwig Edinger, 1855-1918. Commemorative publication for his 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the Neurological Institute (Edinger Institute) of the University of Frankfurt am Main . Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1959 p. 63
personal data
SURNAME Roethig, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roethig, Oskar Moritz Paul (full name); Röthig, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, neuroanatomist and Charlottenburg local politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1940
Place of death Berlin