Walther Fischer (physician)

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Walther Fischer (born December 27, 1882 in Stuttgart , † July 27, 1969 in Göttingen ) was a German pathologist and forensic doctor .

Life

Walther Fischer, son of the Germanist Hermann Fischer , attended (probably) the Uhland-Gymnasium in Tübingen . After graduating from high school, he served as a one-year volunteer with the 10th Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 180 . In 1900 he enrolled at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for medicine. In the summer semester of 1900 he joined the Igel University of Tübingen . He moved to the University of Leipzig and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1906 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. In 1907 he did the second half of his military service.

In 1911 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen, while between 1907 and 1913 he worked as an assistant at the pathological institutes of the Albertus University of Königsberg , the University of Tübingen, the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Georg August University of Göttingen . From 1913 Fischer taught for six years as a private lecturer at the German Medical School for Chinese in Shanghai , the forerunner of Tongji University . In 1919 he was appointed professor of pathology at the University of Göttingen.

In 1920/21 he was acting director of the Pathological Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1922 he accepted the call to her chair for pathology. In the next year, he moved to the University of Rostock in the same position . For the academic year 1926/27 he was elected rector of the university. In his rector's speech on February 27, 1926, he dealt with the conceptions of illness in Romanticism. In 1927/28 he was Vice Rector and in 1928/29 Dean . In 1940 he was appointed director of the Rostock Museum of Forensic Medicine, and served in the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 as a senior medical officer in the Wehrmacht .

After he had been dean in Rostock again in 1945/46, he went to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1946 , where he had already deputized for the pathological-anatomical institute in 1938. In 1947 he also became director of the Forensic Medicine Institute in Jena. After his retirement in 1953, he worked for several years as a research assistant at the state-owned company Jenapharm .

Honors

Publications

  • 1927 Medical Education, A Comparative Study by Abraham Flexner New York. Translated into German. Julius Springer publishing house, Berlin
  • with Werner Gerlach and Georg B. Gruber: digestive glands , 2 parts. Berlin 1929. (= Volume 5 Handbook of Special Pathological Anatomy and Histology)
  • as ed. with Franz Büchner : Contributions to pathological anatomy and general pathology. Jena.
  • Cancer issues. For the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, healing and prophylaxis of cancer . Jena 1949.
  • with Georg B. Gruber: Fifty years of pathology in Germany. A memorial book for the 50th anniversary of the German Pathological Society (1897–1947) . Stuttgart 1949.
  • with Ilse Kühl: Tumors in laboratory rodents . Dresden, Leipzig 1958.

literature

  • Werner Teichmann, in: Angela Hartwig, Tilmann Schmidt (Hg): The Rectors of the University of Rostock - 1419–2000 . In: Contributions to the history of the University of Rostock . Issue 23. Rostock University Printing House, University Archives, Rostock 2000, ISBN 978-3-86009-173-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: About large nodular tumor-like tuberculosis of the liver, probably combined with syphilis .
  2. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Walther Conrad Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1969
Place of death Goettingen