Wilhelm Pfitzner
Wilhelm Pfitzner (born August 22, 1853 in Oldenburg in Holstein , † January 1, 1903 in Strasbourg ) was a German anatomist and university professor .
Life
Pfitzner attended the Johann Heinrich Voss High School in Eutin . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . Member of the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg since 1874 , he reconstituted the Corps Holsatia in 1877 after a three-year suspension. In 1878 he passed the medical state examination. In 1879 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In 1880 he became an assistant doctor at the anatomical institute in Heidelberg. At Easter 1883 he went as an assistant to Gustav Schwalbe at the Albertus University in Königsberg and followed this in the autumn of the same year to the anatomical institute in Strasbourg, where he completed his habilitation in anatomy in 1885 . In 1891 he was appointed associate professor for topographical anatomy in Strasbourg and in 1893 as a prosector . He died in office at the age of 49.
Pfitzner dealt with the skeleton, cell biology and anthropology . He was the namesake of the Pfitzner or Balbiani- Pfitzner grains , which belong to the granular structure of the chromosomes .
Awards
The Corps Holsatia made Wilhelm Pfitzner an honorary member in 1883.
Fonts
- About Leydig's mucous cells in the epidermis of the larvae of Salamandra maculosa , 1879
- About the finer structure of the thread-like differentiation of the cell nucleus that occurs during cell healing , 1880
- Composition of the chromatic threads of the nucleus , 1881
- On the pathological anatomy of the cell nucleus , 1885
- Guide to situs exercises on corpses (eleven editions published by 1946)
literature
- Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 1290. ( Permalink )
Web links
- Large Seibert microscope from Prof. Wilhelm Pfitzner on musoptin.com
- Wilhelm Pfitzner on corpsarchive.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 70 , 264; 81 , 409
- ↑ Micro forum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfitzner, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German anatomist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg in Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1903 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |