Rudolf Fick

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Rudolf Fick

Rudolf Armin Fick (born February 24, 1866 in Zurich ; died May 23, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German anatomist , pathologist and university lecturer .

life and work

Rudolf Fick was born as the son of the physiologist Adolf Fick and his wife Emilie, née von Cölln, on February 24, 1866 in Zurich .

Fick began his scientific career as a prosector at the University of Würzburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1892. He then went to the University of Leipzig as a prosector and associate professor of anatomy . In 1905 he went to the German University of Prague , today Karl Ferdinand University, where he became professor and director of the anatomical institute. In 1909 he moved to the University of Innsbruck . As the successor to Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer , he worked at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin until his retirement in 1934 . Werner Forßmann , who later won the Nobel Prize, was one of his students . In his memoirs, Forßmann described him as a “modern anatomist” who, together with others, “woke the subject out of a paralyzing old age into which it had sunk.” Since 1915 he was a member of the Leopoldina , and since 1918 a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and since 1924 corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

The main field of Rudolf Fick was the muscle and joint mechanics and Comparative Anatomy with the apes . He was instrumental in the controversy over the reform of anatomy teaching at the beginning of the 20th century. In the area of genetics , in which Fick himself was not active, he expressed himself skeptical about the question of whether the chromosomes are the sole carriers of inheritance and he formulated a hypothesis according to which the environment has a significant influence on the design of the body and for Inheritance of acquired traits via the formation of progeny in the course of development genes can be formed. However, this hypothesis has now been refuted.

Rudolf Fick died on May 23, 1939 in Berlin. He was married to Frieda Prym, daughter of the mathematician Friedrich Prym , and had three sons and two daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Manfred Stürzbecher:  Fick, Rudolf Armin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 129 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Werner Forßmann: Self-experiment. Memories of a surgeon. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1972; P. 58.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Rudolf Fick. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Walther Vogt: Rudolf Fick . In: Meeting reports of the mathematical and natural science department of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich . No. I , 1940, p. 59–60 ( [1] [PDF; accessed February 3, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Fuck, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuck, Rudolf Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist, pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1939
Place of death Berlin