Theodor Fahr

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Karl Theodor Fahr (born October 3, 1877 in Pirmasens , † October 29, 1945 in Hamburg ) was a German pathologist.

Life

After attending the Progymnasium Pirmasens , Fahr studied medicine at the Hessian Ludwig University in Gießen , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1898 he became a member of the Corps Starkenburgia . In 1903 he was awarded a doctorate in Giessen, where he had previously studied pathological anatomy. med. PhD. He then completed his assistantship in Hamburg and in 1906 became a prosector in the local port hospital . In 1909 he took over the management of the pathological institute of the Mannheim hospital. In 1919 he was appointed associate professor and in 1924 full professor of pathology in Hamburg. During the National Socialist era , on November 11, 1933, he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . He ended his life by suicide on October 29, 1945 . Fahr was a member of the Academic Club in Hamburg .

From 1909 to 1915 he worked with Franz Volhard in Mannheim on a classification of diseases of the kidney . In the work Die Bright'sche Kidney Disease: Klinik, Pathologie und Atlas (1914) they differentiated between degenerative (nephrosis), inflammatory ( nephritis ) and arteriosclerotic ( sclerosis ) kidney diseases. With regard to nephrosclerosis , a distinction was made between a benign and a malignant form. In 1923, at a conference of the German Society for Pathology , Theodor Fahr was one of the first scientists to suggest that there was a causal relationship between smoking and bronchial carcinoma :

"The stimulus for the development of bronchial cancer comes from m. E. only a chronically acting harmfulness into consideration, hardly a poisoning with war gases, much more the inhalation with cigarette smoking, which undoubtedly has increased. "

- Theodor Fahr

In 1931 he described Fahr's disease . A street in Hamburg-Langenhorn has been named after him since 1961 .

Works

  • with Franz Volhard: Bright's kidney disease: Clinic, pathology and atlas. Springer, Berlin 1914.
  • About atypical findings from the chapters on Brightii disease, together with comments on the hypertension issue. In: Virchow's archive for pathological anatomy. Volume 248, 1924, pp. 323-336.
  • with Otto Lubarsch : The kidney plants , in: Friedrich Henke and Otto Lubarsch (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Spezial Pathologische Anatomie und Histologie , Vol. 6, 1. Berlin 1925.
  • Separation of context and pathological changes in the renal pelvis and ureter caused by the use of force , in: Friedrich Henke and Otto Lubarsch (Ed.): Handbuch der Spezial Pathologische Anatomie und Histologie , Vol. 6, 1. Berlin 1925.

literature

  • Georg B. Gruber:  Fahr, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 745 ( digitized version ).
  • M. Staemmler: Theodor Fahr's contribution to modern renal pathology. Medical World 1958 May 31; 3 (22): 897-902 PMID 13565201 .
  • A. Heidland et al .: Franz Volhard and Theodor Fahr: achievements and controversies in their research in renal disease and hypertension. J. Hum. Hypertensive. 15 (2001), pp. 5-16.
  • Werner E. Gerabek : Fahr, Theodor , in: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 390.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 57/489.
  2. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: Fahr, Theodor. 2005, p. 390.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: On total necrosis of both kidneys after thrombosis of the renal veins .
  4. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek: Fahr, Theodor. 2005, p. 390.
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 143.
  6. ^ Theodor Fahr: About nephrosclerosis. In: Virchow's archive for pathological anatomy. Volume 226, 1919, pp. 119-178.
  7. ^ Theodor Fahr: About malignant kidney sclerosis (combination form). In: Central sheet for general pathology and pathological anatomy. Volume 27, 1916, pp. 481-498.
  8. ↑ Discussion note on Teutschländer: "About metaplasia and cancer formation". Verh Dtsch Path Ges 19 (1923), p. 192
personal data
SURNAME Drive, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fahr, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1945
Place of death Hamburg