Richard Burian

Richard Burian (born January 8, 1871 in Vienna , † April 6, 1954 in Iowa City ) was an Austrian physiologist .

Life

Richard Burian studied medicine at the University of Vienna . In 1890 he became a member of the Connection Symposion , which later became the Corps . In 1894 he graduated as Dr. med. From 1895 to 1897 he worked at Edmund von Neusser's clinic and in the laboratories of Adolf Lieben and Julius Mauthner on physiological and chemical topics. From 1897 to 1905 he was assistant to Ewald Hering at the Physiological Institute of the University of Leipzig , where he qualified as a professor in 1899 .

In 1903 he went to the newly created Department of Physiology at the Zoo-Oceanographic Institute in Naples . In 1910 he was appointed Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and in 1912 Professor of Physiology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna . After another stay in Leipzig from 1914 to 1916, he went to the medical faculty in Ljubljana . In 1920 he was appointed to the chair of physiology at the newly established Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade . He gave the first lectures from 1922 in German, from 1924 he only read in Serbian . He retired in 1938, but continued his experimental work until his institute was destroyed by a German bombing in 1941. After the war, he emigrated in 1947 to his son Hermann in Hanover (Massachusetts) near Boston .

Services

In 1927 the newly established Institute for Physiology and Histology was opened. Between 1923 and 1934 he was dean and vice dean of the medical faculty. In addition, he campaigned for the establishment of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (1936) and the Faculty of Pharmacy (1939).

The focus of his experimental work was:

• Metabolism of Purines
• Methodology for studying the nerves and muscles of molluscs
• Contraction of injured muscles
• Function of neuromuscular synapses
• Function of the kidney and genitourinary system
• Function of biological membranes
• Swallowing physiology

Awards

• 1931, Order of the Crown of Romania 3rd class
• 1934, Order of St. Sava, 2nd class
• 1936, Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia 2nd class
• 1971, the Institute of Medical Physiology of the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade was named after him
• A street in Belgrade is named after him

Fonts

• About sitosterol. A contribution to the knowledge of phytosterols . In: MONTHS FOR CHEMISTRY , Volume 18, Number 1, December 1897
• About the oxidative and the supposed synthetic formation of uric acid in beef liver extract . In: Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie , Volume 43, pp. 497-531, 1904-05
• One last word about the permanganate tests by the coachman and the seaman . In: Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie , Volume 45, pp. 351-354, 1905
• Chemistry of spermatozoa I . In: Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology , Volume 3, Number 1, March 1904
• Chemistry of Spermatozoa II . In: Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology , Volume 5, Number 1, December 1906

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 136 , 7
2. ^ Habilitation thesis: The dissimilation purines of the mammals

Web links

• Dragan M. Djurić: Professor Richard Burian (1871–1954), Founder of the Institute of Medical Physiology School of Medicine University of Belgrade ( Memento of November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (2009) (PDF; 236 kB)
• Literature by and about Richard Burian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Richard Burian's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1901 to winter semester 1904)