Werner Hueck

Werner Hueck (born April 18, 1882 in Lüdenscheid ; † July 1, 1962 in Munich ) was a German pathologist .

family

Werner M. Hueck was the son of the manufacturer Ernst Hueck and his wife Clara Noelle. Werner Hueck married Else Anna Noelle in 1908. A son and three daughters are from the marriage.

education and profession

Werner Hueck's signature on a document

After attending elementary school and the humanistic grammar school in Höxter and Ilfeld (Harz), Hueck studied medicine in Tübingen , Munich and Rostock , was awarded a doctorate in medicine in Rostock in 1905 and was licensed as a doctor in 1906. Following a physiological and pharmacological training, he worked in Munich with Siegfried Oberndorfer , Albert Dietrich (1873–1961) and Otto von Bollinger in the pathological-anatomical subject, was from 1908 assistant at the Institute for Pathology with Max Borst and completed his habilitation1912 for pathology and pathological anatomy . In 1913, Hueck worked at the zoological station in Naples . From 1916 he was associate professor in Munich and in 1920 and 1921 full professor at the University of Rostock , from 1921 to 1948 he succeeded Felix Marchand as full professor in Leipzig . In 1948, as full professor of Borst, he took over the management of the Pathological Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he headed until 1956. In 1925 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and the Saxon Academy of Sciences , and in 1949 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

power

Hueck carried out fundamental work on iron metabolism , pigments and cholesterol metabolism . His pigment analyzes are considered to be the basic work of modern histochemistry, and cholesterol research provided significant insight into the pathology of arteriosclerosis . Hueck gained an international reputation through his work on the mesenchyme (e.g. normal and pathological histology of the spleen ) and granulomatous tumor formation (e.g. basalioma ). Degenerative and rheumatic mesenchyme changes in old age formed a further research focus. The textbook Morphological Pathology is to be regarded as a summary of his pathological-morphological concept . In contrast to Rudolf Virchow's classical analytical pathology , Hueck represented an “idealized” pathological concept based on Goethe's morphological ideas , which should nevertheless be in harmony with the requirements of clinics and practice.

Works

• Contributions to the question of the absorption and excretion of iron in the animal organism , Diss. Med., Rostock 1905
• Pigment studies , post-doctoral thesis, Munich 1912
• Anatomy on the question of the nature and cause of arteriosclerosis , Münchn Med Wschr 67 (1920) 535-538, 573, 576, 606-609
• About the mesenchyme , Contribution Path Anat 66 (1920) 330-376
• The pathological pigmentation , In: Krehl, Marchand (Ed.), Handb. D. general pathology. Vol. 2/2, Leipzig 1921, pp. 298-481
• Morphological pathology. A presentation of the morphological basis of general and special pathology. , Leipzig 1937; 2nd edition, ibid. 1948.

literature

• Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Berlin 1932, vol. 1, p. 669
• Reichs Handbuch d. German society. Vol. 1, 1930, p. 398
• AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 10th edition (1935), p. 345
• Kürschner's German. Gelehrtenkalender , 1931, p. 1267; 1961, p. 838
• W. Büngeler : Prof. Dr. Werner Hueck. Münchn Med Wschr 40 (1962), pp. 1886-1888
• C. Krauspe: Professor Werner Hueck. Dtsch Med Wschr 87 (1962), pp. 1922-1925
• Dietmar Eckert: Personal bibliographies of the professors and lecturers in pathology at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in the approximate period from 1870 to 1945. Erlangen-Nürnberg 1971, pp. 71-78

Web links

• Werner Hueck in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Entry on Werner Hueck in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium