Walter Büngeler

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Walter Büngeler (born December 30, 1900 in Niedermendig , Rhine Province , † January 1, 1987 in Munich ) was one of the most important German pathologists.

Life

Büngeler studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn , the University of Rostock and the new Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . With an obstetric doctoral thesis , he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Only two years later completed his habilitation he did in Frankfurt at Bernhard Fischer Wasels for pathology . With indole , he succeeded in chemically producing leukemia . In 1933 he was appointed founding dean of the Medical Academy in Gdansk . Three years later he followed the call of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo to the chair of the Escola Paulista de Medicina . There he wrote fundamental works on leprosy .

When Brazil declared war on the German Reich (under American influence) in August 1942 , he returned to Germany. He was a professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel for over 14 years . He was chairman of the scientific advisory board of the research center Borstel . The Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich appointed him to the fourth chair in 1956. He established departments for electron microscopy and neuropathology . He was Secretary General of the predecessor organization of the German Cancer Society . In 1970 he retired .

He was buried in the Westfriedhof (Munich) .

Works

  • Animal experiments and cell physiological studies on the question of general tumor disposition . 1930.
  • The newly founded State Academy for Practical Medicine in Gdansk . German Medical Wochenschrift 61 (1935), pp. 551-554.
  • Is there a carcinogen? Health and life. Series of journals from the health insurance of the German Relief Organization São Paulo, No. 10. São Paulo 1937.
  • Contribuição ao estudo das molestias osseas na lepra; das relações da osteodistrofia com a hiperplasia das paratiroides ea insuficiência renal . 1942.
  • About the spread of rheumatism in tropical and subtropical countries .
  • About the Brazilian blastomycosis and the histological evidence of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis .
  • What do we mean by tropical diseases?
  • About the course of tuberculosis in warm countries .
  • The pathological anatomy of leprosy . Springer, Berlin 1941–1943.
  • with Werner Hueck : Patología morfológica: exposición de los fundamentos morfológicos de la anatómia patológica general y especial . Barcelona 1944.
  • with Karlferdinand Kloos, Wolfgang Rotter : Special Pathology . Wolfenbüttel 1948.
  • State and development of pathology . Berlin 1958.

Honors

  • Lady Tata Prize (1932, 1933, 1934)
  • Honorary member of the German Cancer Society
  • Rudolf Virchow Medal (1985)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Press release LMU (January 7, 1987)
  2. ↑ See the entry of Walter Büngeler's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Dissertation: About forehead positions .
  4. ^ Habilitation thesis: The gas treatment of malignant tumors .
  5. ↑ Laetitia Boehm, Johannes Spörl: The Ludwig Maximilians University in their faculties
  6. ^ W. Büngeler, AF Martins de Castro: Investigations on the clinical course and the histological changes in allergic reactions in leprosy .
  7. ^ W. Büngeler: What can we expect from chemotherapeutic experiments on rat leprosy for human leprosy?
  8. ↑ W. Büngeler: When should the leper be isolated?
  9. ^ W. Büngeler: Is there such a thing as congenital leprosy?
  10. ^ Directory of scholars at the CAU
  11. ↑ Borstel annual report: 1956/57
  12. ↑ The Pathological Institute of the LMU on Thalkirchner Strasse
  13. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Volume 83 (1986), p. 135.
  14. ↑ on Lady Navabaj Tata see Ratan Tata
personal data
SURNAME Büngeler, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Büngeler, Wilhelm Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedermendig , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1987
Place of death Munich