Peter Panum
Peter Ludvig Panum (born December 19, 1820 in Rønne , † May 2, 1885 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish physiologist . He was a professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the University of Copenhagen .
Life
Peter Ludvig Panum was the son of a military doctor . He studied in Kiel and Copenhagen , where he passed the state examination in 1845. In 1846, after an epidemic in the Faroe Islands, he was the first to verify the existence of lifelong measles immunity. In 1847 he went to Berlin to study, where he became Rudolf Virchow's student. He obtained his doctorate in 1851 with a treatise on the physiological chemistry of fibrins og dens coagulation. In 1852 Panum discovered the endotoxin of bacteria. As a professor in Kiel (1853–1864) he pushed through the establishment of a laboratory for physiology. He then took over a chair at the University of Copenhagen, where he served as rector in the academic year 1876/77.
He wrote many treatises in the field of physiology such as Physiological Studies on Two-Eye Vision . In it he described the Panum area, which was later named after him (compare spatial vision ).
The Panum Institute at the University of Copenhagen was named after him.
literature
- Julius Pagel : Panum, Peter Ludwig . In: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1901, Sp. 1256–1258 .
- Peter Voswinckel: Panum, Peter Ludvig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 40 ( digitized version ).
- Peter Panum . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Norrsken – Paprocki . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1914, Sp. 1474 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Peter Panum . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 12 : Münch – Peirup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1898, p. 537 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter L. Panum: Observations Made During the Epidemic of Measles on the Faroe Islands in the Year 1846 American Public Health Association, New York 1940. Ders .: Observations on the measles contagium . In: Archives for Pathological Anatomy and Physiology and for Clinical Medicine . Volume 1. Berlin 1847, pp. 492-512
- ^ Joseph Parnas: In memoriam Fritz Kauffmann (1899–1978) - Primus mundi of salmonella research. In: Würzburger medical history reports , 7, 1989, pp. 347–352; here: p. 347
- ^ Joseph Parnas: Peter Ludwig Panum - the discoverer of endotoxin. In: Danish Medical Bulletin , 1975, pp. 123-127.
- ^ List of rectors on the University of Copenhagen website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Panum, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Panum, Peter Ludvig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rønne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1885 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |