Rudolf Rosemann

The family grave of Rudolf Rosemann, wife Paula and son Hans-Ulrich in the central cemetery in Münster .

Rudolf Robert Albert Rosemann (born October 17, 1870 in Berlin , † March 14, 1943 in Münster ) was a German physiologist.

family

Rudolf Rosemann has four children, u. a. Walther , mathematician; Heinz Rudolf , art historian; Hans-Ulrich , physiologist.

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Rudolf Rosemann studied medicine in Greifswald and Munich, passed the medical state examination in Greifswald and received his doctorate there. med. He was first assistant to the pharmacologist Hugo Schulz and then to the Physiological Institute under Leonard Landois . There he completed his habilitation in the field of physiology. In January 1902 he was awarded the title of professor. In the winter semester of 1902/03, he was in charge of the institute, as Leonard Landois was ill and then died in November. In the SS 1903 Rosemann went to Bonn as an assistant to Eduard Pflüger , who had suggested Max Bleibtreu as Landois' successor.

In October 1904 Rosemann accepted an appointment as associate professor at the Philosophical and Natural Science Faculty of the University of Münster. There he built up the Institute of Physiology, from 1906 as its director and initially as a personal, then from 1910 as a regular professor of physiology. In 1914/15 he was dean of the faculty of philosophy and natural sciences, and in 1921/22 he was rector of the University of Münster. In difficult times he carried out lengthy preparatory work for the establishment of the medical faculty, which was finally founded in 1925. He switched to the newly created faculty and became its first dean. In this context, the Philosophical and Natural Sciences Faculty honored his services to the development of the University of Münster with the award of the Dr. phil. hc 1935 he was released from his official obligations, but until his retirement in 1937 he held the professorship for physiology and the management of the institute.

Numerous publications, Weber (Königsberg) counts over 70, testify to his versatile interests. Outstanding all of them, however, the most important thing in the foreground is the “Textbook of Physiology”, known for short as “Landois-Rosemann”, which, despite its thoroughness, always took into account the concerns of practical medicine. His teacher Landois had founded this standard work, Rudolf Rosemann continued it like his son Hans-Ulrich after him . This collection of physiological knowledge consistently pursued the aim of presenting the subject in a clear structure and differentiated design, including the latest scientific findings in appropriate formulations, precisely and clearly understandable. It accompanied the students as a textbook and was always available as a comprehensive compendium in almost every medical practice. Over almost four decades, Rudolf Rosemann edited fourteen editions that appeared between 1905 and 1943 "with a rare clarity of presentation and an admirable accuracy in terms of language and content". The book has been translated into seven languages, with up to six editions.

Publications

The “Poggendorffs biographical-literary concise dictionary” from 1938, given below, offers an extensive list of individual publications.

• Leonard Landois (founder), Rudolf Rosemann (editor): Landois-Rosemann, textbook on human physiology with special consideration of practical medicine . 11-24 edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna.

literature

• JC Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, crystallography and related fields of knowledge . tape VI . Chemie GmbH, Berlin 1938, p. 2216-2217 .
• Gerhard Lüdtke (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar, Edition 6 . tape 2 . de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1941, Sp. 504 .
• Erich Schütz: Rudolf Rosemann † . In: Medical Clinic, weekly for general practitioners . No. 19/20 . Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1943. (also probably also in: Münchener Medizinischen Wochenschrift, Volume 90 (1943) page 276)
• Weber (Königsberg): Rudolf Rosemann † . In: Pflüger's archive for the total physiology of humans and animals . tape 247 , 3 and 4. Springer, Berlin 1944, p. 357-359 .
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . tape 8 . KG Saur, Munich 1998, p. 388 . Live and act

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of Greifswald Physiology, http://www2.medizin.uni-egoswald.de/physiol/fileadmin/user_upload/dokumente/geschichte.pdf , accessed on March 18, 2017.
2. ^ E. Schütz and also Weber (Königsberg), as stated above.

predecessor	Office	successor
Max Meinertz	Rector of the University of Münster 1921–1922	Julius Schwering