Wilhelm Filehne

Wilhelm Filehne

Wilhelm Filehne (born February 12, 1844 in Posen , † April 29, 1927 in Bensheim ) was a German pharmacologist .

Life

Filehne came as the son of the Jewish merchant Isidor Filehne and his wife Rosalie nee. Merchant to the world. After his childhood and school career in Poznan, he studied medicine from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . As a member of the Berlin Landsmannschaft Normannia II in Heidelberg, he fought four times on corps weapons. Therefore, on January 31, 1905, he became a corps bow bearer of Normannia Berlin . He received the tape three days later . Filehne's pub name was Phylax. At their 50th foundation festival (1908), he praised the Erlangen pastor's daughter as the guardian of the old corps student ideals.

Filehne converted from Jewish to Lutheranism . On March 8, 1892, he married Marie Wurster , the widow of the classical philologist Wilhelm Studemund , who died in 1889 . The groomsmen were the pharmacist Theodor Poleck and the pathologist Emil Ponfick , both rectors of the University of Wroclaw in those years. The marriage ended in divorce after only eleven months. Filehne was temporarily the stepfather of the writer Catherina Godwin and her sister Marie. On April 4, 1914, Filehne married Sophie Deurer, the widow of the mathematician Paul Gordan , who died in 1912, in Berlin .

Career

Filehne's teachers included Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond , Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs and Ludwig Traube . Filehne received his doctorate in 1866 and passed the state examination in February 1867. In 1868 he was in Berlin assistant to Rudolph Virchow , to participate in the French German war from 1870 to 1871 when Ludwig Traube and 1874-1875 when William of Leube at the Medical Polyclinic in Friedrich-Alexander University , where he joined as a lecturer habilitated . In 1876 he became an associate professor for pharmacology in Erlangen. In 1886 he accepted the chair at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . As full professor of pharmacology , he succeeded Heinrich Haeser .

Filehne devoted himself to experimental pathology , pharmacology , toxicology and physiology , especially physiological and psychological optics . We owe the phenazone and (with Karl Spiro ) the pyrazole to him. His successor in Breslau was Julius Pohl in 1911 . His positive pharmacological assessment was the basis for the triumph of the antipyrine and pain reliever drugs antipyrine and aminophenazone , which replaced quinine , which had been in use up to this point .

Works

• with A. Cloetta: Textbook of drug theory and drug prescription theory . JCB Mohr 1889 digitized

Honors

• Go Medical Council
• Member of the Académie nationale de médecine
• Member of the Physico-Medical Society Erlangen
• Honorary member of the Société de Therapy de Paris

literature

• Berliner Börsenzeitung from May 6, 1927
• Hans Loewe:  Filehne, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 146 ( digitized version ).
• Julius Pagel : Filehne, Wilhelm , in: Biographical Lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin and Vienna 1901, column 501.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Filehne in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corp lists 1930, 7/265.
2. ↑ Renate Wittern (ed.) / Astrid Ley: The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743-1960. Erlanger research, special series Vol. 9, Part 2: Medical Faculty , p. 39.
3. ↑ Married: Prof. Dr. Wilh. Filehne with Marie Studemund geb. Wurster, Breslau. Advertisement in: Chemiker-Zeitung 1892, Volume 16, Part 1, No. 22, page 361, personal information.
4. ↑ Andreas Schüler: The eventful life of Catherina Godwin. In: Wortwelle Blog. Retrieved March 4, 2017 . 
5. ^ Marriage register Berlin Charlottenburg III, 1914, entry no. 263 (returned first register).