Ulrich Wolf (human geneticist)
Ulrich Wolf (born January 2, 1933 in Riesa , Saxony , † January 4, 2017 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German biologist and human geneticist . The Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome was named after him and Kurt Hirschhorn .
Live and act
Wolf was born on January 2, 1933 as the son of the engineer Reinhard Wolf and his wife Gertrud (née Bergk) in Riesa, Saxony. He spent his childhood and school days in Rötha and Böhlen . Ulrich Wolf began to learn to play the cello at the age of seven . From 1943 to 1952 he attended the Thomas Gymnasium in Leipzig , the Uhland Gymnasium in Tübingen and the Petrinum Gymnasium in Dorsten . In the spring of 1952, Wolf obtained his Abitur . He studied natural sciences with a focus on botany at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , at the Sorbonne and, from 1955, at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1961 he received his doctorate in biology.
In the following years, Wolf supported Helmut Baitsch in setting up the Institute for Human Genetics and Anthropology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and received further training from Gerhard Stalder and Erika Bühler at the Children's Hospital in Basel and from Klaus Pätau in Madison , Wisconsin , USA. After returning to Germany in the autumn of 1962, he worked in the field of cytogenetics with a group of students and technicians he had assembled .
In 1967 Wolf was appointed to the Academic Council and two years later he completed his habilitation at the medical faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg for human genetics and anthropology. From 1972 to 2000 he was there, as successor to Baitsch, full professor of human genetics and anthropology.
Ulrich Wolf married Maria Wehrmann on December 31, 1960; the couple has six children.
Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
The Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (also known as chromosome 4p syndrome known) is a rare congenital hereditary disease. The main symptom is a short stature combined with an extreme delay in mental and physical development and a combination of different malformations. It is named after Ulrich Wolf and Kurt Hirschhorn, who first described the clinical picture independently of one another in 1965.
Awards
Wolf was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1986) and was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 1975 Wolf was elected President of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ulrich Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ulrich Wolf on Whonamedit.com ( Memento from February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English; archive version from February 8, 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ badische-zeitung.de: Ulrich Wolf Prof. Dr. - Obituaries - Obituaries & Obituaries - badische-zeitung.de . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on January 12, 2017]).
- ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wolf at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German human geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riesa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 2017 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |