Rudolf Kobert

Rudolf Kobert (around 1900)

Eduard Rudolf Kobert (born January 3, 1854 in Bitterfeld , † December 27, 1918 in Rostock ) was a German medical historian and pharmacologist .

biography

Rudolf Kobert studied medicine in Halle and was ibid 1877 with a thesis on Terpentinölwirkung doctorate . First he worked at the medical clinic and polyclinic in Halle under the direction of Weber, later as Goltz's assistant in Strasbourg, then for six years as Schmiedeberg's assistant. Without having completed his habilitation, he was appointed professor of pharmacology , dietetics and the history of medicine in Dorpat in 1886 . In 1890 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His fundamental pharmacological work on saponins, ricin, Amanita phalloides, etc., dates from this time. Due to the Russification of the university, he resigned from his position in 1896 and took over the management of the Brehmers' institutions in Görbersdorf. How seriously he took this task, which was further from him, is shown by his institution reports. In 1899 he accepted a position as professor of pharmacology, physiological chemistry and medical history at the University of Rostock , where he died on December 27, 1918.

Works

Kobert wrote a large number of primarily pharmacological and toxicological papers, dealt with ergot preparations (and developed Cornutin, which is similar to ergotinine but more soluble , from 1884 to 1886 ) and also emerged as the editor of medical history works.

• Contributions to the effect of turpentine oil . - 1877. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Contributions to the knowledge of saponin substances for naturalists, doctors, medical officials . - Stuttgart: Enke, 1904. Digitized edition
• Textbook of intoxications . 2., completely reworked. Edition Enke, Stuttgart ( digitized edition )
  • 1. General part. 1902
  • 2. Special part. 1906
• Some notes on the importance and biological evidence of vegetable agglutinins and hemolysins . Parey, Berlin 1909 ( digitized version )
• About Amanita phalloides . 1911. ( digitized version )
• About remedies containing silica, especially for tuberculosis . - Rostock: Warkentien, 1918. Digitized edition
• Contributions to the knowledge of the vegetable haemagglutinins  : one at the instigation of the Königl. Experimental study carried out by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and supported by the award of the Liebig scholarship. - Berlin: Parey, 1913. Digitized edition
• Small messages . 1916. Digitized edition
• From the history of the deadly nightshade and the dilation of the pupil caused by poisons . - 1920. Digitized edition

literature

• H. Buess: Rudolf Kobert (1854-1918); a pioneer of pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacohistory and public health . Switzerland Med Wochenschr. 1954 Apr 17; 84 (16): 448-50.
• Hans-Heinz Eulner:  Kobert, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 247 ( digitized version ).
• Jörg Lübbe: Rudolf Kobert (1854-1918), his contribution to the development of pharmacology and the historiography of medicine . Dissertation FU Berlin 1983
• Detlef Ties: Rudolf KOBERT (1854–1918) as a toxicologist and court chemist . In: T + K (Toxichem + Krimtech), bulletin of the Society for Toxicological and Forensic Chemistry 71/1 (2004), pp. 17–31 (detailed biography with portrait photos) as a PDF file

Web links

• Entry on Rudolf Kobert in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• List of publications (GBV)
• Literature by and about Rudolf Kobert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Kobert: About ergot preparations. In: Centralblatt für Gynäkologie. Volume 10, No. 20, May 15, 1886, pp. 306-309.
2. ↑ Erhard: About the effect of the Cornutin. In: Centralblatt für Gynäkologie. Volume 10, No. 20, May 15, 1886, pp. 309 f.