Rudolf Höber

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Rudolf Höber

Rudolf Höber (born December 27, 1873 in Stettin ; died September 5, 1953 in Philadelphia ) was a German-American physiologist and university professor .

Life

Rudolf Höber was a son of the merchant Anselm Höber and Elieze Köhl, the physician Isidor Rosenthal was an uncle. He studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , where he passed his exams in 1898. Since 1909 he worked as a private lecturer at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1915 he was appointed full professor . At the age of 29 he published his book Physical Chemistry of Cells and Tissues . In 1922 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1930/31 he was rector of the CAU.

On September 26, 1933, he was retired at the age of 60 because of his non-Aryan descent. He emigrated with his wife Josephine Marx via England to the United States , where he continued his scientific work in Philadelphia. He received American citizenship in 1940.

In Kiel Rudolf-Höber Street remembers him.

Publications

  • Physical chemistry of cells and tissues , 1902
  • A method to measure the electrical conductivity inside cells . Arch. Ges. Physiol. 133 (1910), pp. 237-259
  • A second method to measure the conductivity inside cells . Arch. Ges. Physiol. 148: 189-221 (1912).
  • Measurements of the internal conductivity of cells III . Arch. Ges. Physiol. 150 (1913), pp. 15-45
  • Textbook of Human Physiology , 1919

literature

  • Dietrich Trincker:  Höber, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 301 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 7. Chernivtsi, 1936, pp. 83f.
  • Höber, Rudolf Otto , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 524
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 158
  • Holger Münzel: Max von Frey. Life and work with special consideration of his sensory-physiological research. Würzburg 1992 (= Würzburg medical historical research , 53), p. 189 ( Rudolf Höber ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
  2. ↑ Josephine Höber, b. Marx , at Charité, women doctors in the German Empire
personal data
SURNAME Höber, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1953
Place of death Philadelphia , USA