Wilhelm Steinhausen (Physiologist)

Wilhelm Steinhausen (born August 27, 1887 in Frankfurt am Main , † March 3, 1954 in Greifswald ) was a German physiologist .

Steinhausen was a son of the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen . He attended the Goethe Gymnasium in Frankfurt and then studied medicine in Göttingen , Berlin and Freiburg . He then studied physics, mathematics and chemistry in Frankfurt and Giessen . In 1914 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1915 he served in hospitals and at the front. After the end of the war , Steinhausen completed his medical studies and was also awarded a Dr. med. PhD. In 1921, he completed his habilitation in physiology. In 1928 he became a professor at the chair for physiology at the University of Greifswald . At the beginning of the thirties Steinhausen was able to directly prove Mach Breuer's flow theory of the endolymph of the inner ear for the first time .

In 1952 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Wilhelm Steinhausen was married to Leni Colsman (1889–1960). He was buried in the village cemetery of Weitenhagen (near Greifswald) .

In 1987 the International Workshop Dedicated to the Hundredth Birthday of Professor Doctor Doctor Wilhelm Steinhausen took place in Greifswald .

Fonts

• To know the air vibrations in flutes . Frankfurt 1914 (Diss.)
• About the carcinosarcoma of the uterus . Kirchhain 1920 (diss.)
• About the latency period of the Sartorius as a function of the current intensity when stimulated with a constant current . Berlin 1921
• About the forces released by the otoliths . Berlin 1935

literature

• Hans Drischel and Annemarie König: The Development of Physiology and the Physiological Institute in Greifswald . In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald, Volume II. 1955, pp. 300–310, here: pp. 304–309.

Web links

• Member entry of Wilhelm Steinhausen at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on January 7, 2017.
• Video: Wilhelm Steinhausen: The semicircular canal system of the inner ear as an organ of perception for rotation . Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) 1939, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.3203 / IWF / C-323 .