Wolfgang Bargmann (anatomist)

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Wolfgang Bargmann (January 1966)

Wolfgang Friedrich Wilhelm Bargmann (born January 27, 1906 in Nuremberg , † June 20, 1978 in Kiel ) was a German anatomist and science politician.

Scientific career

After studying medicine and doing his doctorate , Bargmann became an assistant to Hans Bluntschli at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1933 . In 1934 he moved to the Anatomical Institute in Freiburg / Br. to Wilhelm von Möllendorff , with whom he went to Zurich in 1935 . In the same year the habilitation followed . During this time Bargmann published numerous papers on the histology of the kidney , tooth and pulmonary alveolus as well as a contribution to Möllendorff's manual of microscopic anatomy.

In 1938 he took over a civil servant prosecution at the anatomical institute of the University of Leipzig , headed by Max Clara . There he was appointed adjunct professor in 1941 . In addition to other manual articles on Möllendorff's manual of microscopic anatomy, examinations and the like. a. on the finer structure of the kidney, thymus and spleen as well as first work on the pituitary gland . In this and some later work, Bargmann also used tissue from people who had been executed between the ages of 17 and 52. In 1942 he was appointed as a scheduled associate professor at the institute of the University of Königsberg , headed by Robert Heiss . This was followed by further histological examinations, the writing of some manual articles and some works on the history of anatomy in Königsberg.

After fleeing Königsberg and staying in Bavaria for a few months , Bargmann was commissioned in autumn 1945 with the provisional management of the Anatomical Institute of the University of Göttingen . At the end of 1946 he was appointed to the full professorship in Kiel and was appointed director of the Anatomical Institute, to which he remained loyal until his retirement in 1974 despite further appointments to other universities (Freiburg / Br., Munich) . Instead of the Kiel Institute, which was destroyed by bombs, he managed to convert a former torpedo factory into a functional anatomical institute, which soon became one of the most prestigious in Germany. After his discovery of the neurosecretory function of certain cells of the hypothalamus , an intensive study of the neurosecretory connections between the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland followed . This work received great international recognition and made Bargmann known abroad. In addition to the problems of neurosecretion , other issues relating to microscopic anatomy and, early on, electron microscopy were also dealt with at the Kiel Institute . Thus, under the leadership of Bargmann, the “Kiel School” developed, from which numerous appointments to other universities emerged.

Self-government and university policy

After the Anatomical Society was dissolved in 1945 by a decision of the Control Council , Bargmann tried to organize a first meeting of anatomists at least from the British occupation zone as early as 1946 . In 1950 he was able to organize the 48th meeting of the anatomical society, which has now been founded, in Kiel. He was elected chairman of the Anatomical Society twice, in 1957 and 1976, and was President of the 8th International Anatomy Congress in Wiesbaden in 1965 . Until the end of his life, Bargmann worked intensively to maintain international scientific connections both to the west and to the east.

In 1949 Bargmann was elected dean of the medical faculty and in 1951 rector of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität . As rector, he was instrumental in founding the cultural senate of the city of Kiel. In connection with the reconstruction, he began to deal with the overarching problems of science and university policy and from 1954 participated in the considerations of the Hofgeismarer Kreis on university reform . In 1953 he was elected to the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and from 1955 to 1961 a two-time term of office as one of its three Vice Presidents. In 1957 he was appointed to the newly founded Science Council and was chairman of its scientific commission from 1961 to 1964. For the academic year 1965 Bargmann was re-elected rector of the University of Kiel. He was a member of the founding committee for the University of Bremen and in 1966 was elected to succeed Otto Weber as its second founding rector. Because of fundamental differences of opinion with the Bremen Senator and Senate, he resigned from this office in 1967. From 1967 to 1972 he was a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society (MPG).

Personal

Wolfgang Bargmann was born in 1935 with Charlotte. Half-meat married and had two daughters.

Publications and editing activities

Bargmann was not only the author of a textbook that appeared in many editions, numerous scientific papers and manual contributions, but also an important editor since 1945 (including von Möllendorff's Handbuch der Microscopic Anatomie des Menschen and the Zeitschrift für Zellforschung). The list of his publications (complete at) comprises 232 numbers, of which only a few can be mentioned here:

  • Human histology and microscopic anatomy. Thieme, Stuttgart. Volume I, 1948; Volume II, 1951 (one volume from the second edition in 1956 to the 7th edition in 1977. 1st Spanish edition 1961, 2nd and 3rd Spanish edition 1964 and 1968, respectively).
  • About the neurosecretory link between the hypothalamus and neurohypophysis. In: Journal for Cell Research. Vol. 34, 1949, pp. 610-634.
  • The diencephalon-pituitary system. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1954.
  • Reconstruction and design of the German universities 1945–1955. In: Universitas . Vol. 10, 1955, pp. 649-659.
  • About the structure and development of the organism. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Bargmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e K. Fleischhauer: In memoriam Wolfgang Bargmann. In: Anatomischer Anzeiger. 146, 1979, pp. 209-234.
  2. ↑ S. Hildebrandt: Wolfgang Bargmann (1906–1978) and Heinrich von Hayek (1900–1969): Carriers in anatomy continuing through German National Socialism to postwar leadership. In: Annals of Anatomy. 165, 2013, pp. 283-295.
  3. ^ BV Scharrer, HA Bern: Obituary: Wolfgang Bargmann. In: General and Comparative Endocrinology. 38, 1979, pp. 389-391.
  4. ^ J. Pritchard: In Memoriam Wolfgang Bargmann. In: Journal of Anatomy. 128, 1979, p. 2.
  5. ^ W. Bargmann: University and Senate for Culture. In: J. Jensen, K. Rickers: Andreas Gayk and his time 1893–1954. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, ISBN 3-529-06147-6 , pp. 133-136.
  6. ↑ Science Council: 50 years of Science Council. Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-935353-42-7 , p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Bargmann, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bargmann, Wolfgang Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist and science politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1978
Place of death Kiel