Rudolf Abderhalden

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Rudolf Abderhalden Flückiger (1910–1965), physiologist and pathologist. Family grave in the Sankt Margarethen cemetery (north) in Binningen
Family grave in the Sankt Margarethen cemetery in Binningen

Rudolf Abderhalden (born October 8, 1910 in Berlin , † August 23, 1965 in Meran ) was a Swiss physiologist and pathologist . As director of the laboratory for endocrine diagnostics in Binningen near Basel , he mainly worked on research into allergies and the function of various enzymes .

Live and act

Rudolf Abderhalden was born in 1910 as the son of the biochemist and physiologist Emil Abderhalden and Margarethe Abderhalden, b. Barth, born in Berlin. Since his father was appointed professor of physiological chemistry at the Martin Luther University in Halle in 1911 , the family moved to Halle . As a child, he suffered from spinal palsy and was subsequently physically disabled. He attended the Reformrealgymnasium in Halle, where he passed his Abitur in 1930.

In 1936 he completed his medical studies at the University of Halle with a dissertation entitled “Defense ferments from the group of polypeptidases” . Thanks to massive intervention by his father, he was given an assistant position at his institute despite his disability. On May 1, 1937, Rudolf Abderhalden joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5.537.290). He was a member of the National Socialist German Lecturer Association (NSDDB) , the National Socialist Old Masters Association of German Students (NSAHB) and the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) . In 1939 he also completed his habilitation at the University of Halle with a thesis entitled "The Influence of Nutrition on the Reaction of the Organism to Exogenous Effects" and in 1940 became senior assistant at the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the University of Halle. Due to Abderhalden's disability, the lecturer leader at the University of Wilhelm Wagner opposed both the habilitation and the appointment as a lecturer and the transfer of the senior assistant position. He was only able to take up this position thanks to his father's intercession and other connections.

In 1945 Abderhalden was forcibly evacuated to the American Occupation Zone (known as Abderhaldentransport ) along with his father and other scientists and his father returned to Switzerland penniless. From 1950 to 1958 he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Basel . From 1958 he worked as director of the laboratory for endocrine diagnostics in Binningen. His research focus was the research of allergies and the function of enzymes. Abderhalden died in Meran in South Tyrol in 1965.

Fonts

  • Vitamins, hormones, ferments: a book for doctors, biologists and students. Berlin 1943. 4 new editions until 1959.
  • Medical terminology. Basel 1948.
  • Allergy floor plan. Basel 1950.
  • Clinical Enzymology. Stuttgart 1958.

literature

  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 309.
  • Obituary for Rudolf Abderhalden . In: National newspaper . August 28, 1965.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Alfred Faessler to Wilhelm Kast , Physikalische Blätter, Volume 36, No. 9, 1980, p. 287, online
  2. ↑ a b Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 9th edition (1961). Vol. 1, p. 1.
  3. ^ Universitätsarchiv X 3.5 1 , Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt , accessed on September 26, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Abderhalden, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physiologist and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1965
Place of death Meran