Werner Creutzfeldt

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Werner Creutzfeldt (1962)

Werner Otto Carl Creutzfeldt (born May 11, 1924 in Kiel ; † August 30, 2006 in Göttingen ) was a German internist and director of the gastroenterology and endocrinology department at the Medical University Clinic of the University of Göttingen .

Life

Werner Creutzfeldt grew up in Berlin until he was 14 years old . In 1938, however, his father, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, was appointed professor and chief physician to Kiel . So the son Werner continued his education at the Kiel School of Academics, which was founded in 1320 . A school friend during these years was Ludwig von Friedeburg , son of Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg , who had co-signed the surrender documents on May 7, 1945. Another school friend was Hardwin Jungclaussen , a close relative of the physicists Heinrich Hertz and Gustav Hertz .

After graduating from high school , Werner Creutzfeldt joined the Navy in 1942 and served there until 1945. He completed his medical studies at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Kiel and Tübingen . During his time in Freiburg he also studied philosophy and took part in seminars by Martin Heidegger . In 1950 he received his doctorate at the Anatomical Institute in Kiel and habilitated in internal medicine in Freiburg with Ludwig Heilmeyer in 1957 . There he dealt scientifically, among other things, with problems of the pancreas , also in collaboration with the surgeon Ernst Kern . Research stays followed, including a. at Harvard University . In 1964 he was appointed professor at the University of Göttingen, where he subsequently took over the chair for internal medicine . Later appointments from the Universities of Giessen and Freiburg could not induce him to change. In 1992 Werner Creutzfeldt retired.

He was a son of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, after whom Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is named, and a brother of the neurophysiologist Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt (1927–1992), and a grandson of Werner Sombart , a leading economist before the Second World War. His son Nicolaus Sombart , a half-brother of his mother, has become known as a cultural sociologist and writer . Werner Creutzfeldt was the father of 4 children.

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At the Gottingen University Hospital Creutzfeldt has the Department system introduced internal medicine. In a department system, the responsibility for research, teaching and patient care for specific diseases lies with independent departments with permanent staff. This self-administration results in certain advantages within the faculties.

In his research he dealt with the development and therapy of neuroendocrine tumors, the physiology of the pancreas, the function of the liver in diseases of the glucose metabolism and in particular with peptide hormones . In his working group, pioneering works on the “incretin concept”, the GIP (“gastric inhibitory polypeptide”) and the GLP-1 ( glucagon-like peptide 1 ) appeared. In a 1979 Creutzfeldt paper, a hormone called GIP was described that controls blood sugar in the intestines of people with healthy metabolism. So-called " incretins " were discovered. A broad interest in incretins only arose in science since 1990, after the GLP-1 was identified as a gene sequence in genetic research.

Creutzfeldt's scientific activities are documented in its more than 750 printed scientific publications.

As a visiting professor, he has taught in Brussels, London, New Zealand and New York, among others. More than 10 of his students were appointed to leading positions at German universities. In addition, there are more than 20 chief physicians in renowned hospital departments.

Offices

  • Founding member of the German Diabetes Society ; President from 1967 to 1968; Honorary member
  • 1971–1974: President of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)
  • 1977 President of the "German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases" (DGVS); Honorary member
  • 1989–1994: Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty
  • He is also an honorary member of five national and four international specialist societies (internal medicine, gastroenterology, diabetology). a. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London and Honorary Member of the British Society of Gastroenterology.
  • He was editor-in-chief of the magazines “ Diabetologia ” (1973–1976) and “Digestion” (1978–1992).

Awards

Foundations

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hardwin Jungclaussen : Free in three dictatorships - How I experienced my life and how I found my happiness. Autobiography. trafo publishing group Dr. Wolfgang Weist, trafo Literaturverlag, Autobiographies Volume 48 series, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86465-050-5 .
  2. ↑ Ernst Kern: Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000. ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 312 f.
personal data
SURNAME Creutzfeldt, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Creutzfeldt, Werner Otto Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 2006
Place of death Goettingen