Wilhelm Stepp

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Wilhelm Otto Stepp (born October 20, 1882 in Nuremberg , † April 20, 1964 in Munich ) was a German internist and vitamin researcher.

Life

Wilhelm Stepp was the son of a doctor and studied medicine at the universities of Munich , Erlangen and Kiel . In 1907 he was in Munich with a thesis on the importance of salt retention in the genesis of the nephritic edema with the distinction summa cum laude doctorate . In 1908/1909 he was a student of the physiological chemist Franz Hofmeister in Strasbourg . With his animal experiment work published in 1909, Stepp was able to provide evidence for Frederick Hopkins' statement from 1906 that every animal needs other substances to thrive in addition to pure proteins, fats and carbohydrates, even when supplemented with necessary inorganic salts. His experiments were later refined by Harry Steenbock and Edward Mellanby, where the researchers found a fat-soluble growth vitamin ( vitamin A ) that Stepp had already suspected . In 1911 he completed his habilitation at the Hessian Ludwigs University in Gießen for internal medicine with a thesis on the importance of lipoids for nutrition and worked on a state scholarship at the Institute of Physiology in London . In 1916 he became an associate professor in Gießen and, after a brief activity at the polyclinic in Heidelberg, in 1924, as the successor to Roderich Stintzing, he became a full professor and director of the medical clinic in Jena . In 1926 he moved to Wroclaw as the successor to Oskar Minkowski and from 1934 worked in the teaching and director of the First Medical University Clinic at the University of Munich, succeeding Ernst von Romberg . He remained in office until the end of the Second World War, and on August 13, 1947, he was appointed director of the Medical Clinic in Würzburg as a full professor of internal medicine. He retired in 1949.

The main focus of his scientific activities were nutritional issues, vitamins and gastrointestinal diseases. In addition, in 1918 he succeeded in obtaining the contents of the gallbladder from living people for the first time using the duodenal probe.

Together with Carl Arthur Scheunert , he edited the periodical Vitamins and Hormones , the leading German journal in this research area.

He was an honorary member of the German and Austrian Society for Nutritional Research.

Wilhelm Otto Stepp was born on September 25, 1922 under matriculation no. In 3478 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In 1961 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne and in 1962 Wilhelm Stepp was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Federal President Heinrich Lübke .

Fonts

  • Experimental studies on the importance of saline retention for the genesis of nephritic edema. 1907.
  • Try feeding lipoid-free foods. In: Biochemical Journal. Volume 22, 1909, pp. 452-460.
  • Experimental studies on the importance of lipoids in nutrition. In: Journal of Biology. Volume 57, 1911, pp. 135-170.

literature

  • Herbert Schwiegk : Wilhelm Stepp October 20, 1882 to April 20, 1964 . In: Chronicle of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich 1963/1964, Munich 1965, pp. 33–34 PDF
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. Volume 9. Saur, Munich 2008, p. 681 digitized
  • George Wolf and Kenneth J. Carpenter: Early Research into the Vitamins: The Work of Wilhelm Stepp . In: The Journal of Nutrition, 127, 7, 1997, pp. 1255-1259 online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Westphal , Theodor Wieland , Heinrich Huebschmann: life regulator. Of hormones, vitamins, ferments and other active ingredients. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1941 (= Frankfurter Bücher. Research and Life. Volume 1), p. 43 f. and 54 f.
  2. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, pp. 11 and 19.
  3. ↑ August Gutzmer (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 58th issue. On commission from Max Niemeyer, Halle 1923, p. 19 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Stepp, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stepp, Wilhelm Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and vitamin researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1964
Place of death Munich