Wolfgang Müller-Ruchholtz
Wolfgang Müller-Ruchholtz (born September 22, 1928 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † February 18, 2019 in Molfsee ) was a German emeritus for immunology.
Life
Müller-Ruchholtz was born as the son of the dentist Richard Müller and his wife Gabriele. Ruchholtz born. He began to study medicine and dentistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1951 he became a member of the Mainz-based Corps Guestphalia Berlin . He moved to the University of Innsbruck and the University of Cologne . In Cologne he was reciprocated in 1952 in the Corps Borussia Breslau to Cologne and Aachen . Finally he studied at the Sorbonne and the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . After passing both state exams, he was awarded a Dr. med. (1957) and Dr. med. dent. (1959) doctorate .
Scientific assistant: 1957/58 in the tissue engineering department of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Hereditary Biology in Berlin, 1959/60 in the Dept. Bacteriology & Immunology of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York , 1961/62 in the I. Medical Clinic of the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main and in the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . There he completed his habilitation in immunology and medical microbiology in 1966 . In 1969 he was invited to the University of Buffalo as a visiting full professor . After returning to Germany, he was appointed professor and deputy director of the Kiel Institute. In addition to Karl Lennert , from 1973 to 1987 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center 111 of the German Research Foundation (lymphatic system and experimental transplantation). From 1980 he headed the newly founded institute with a chair for immunology as a clinical-theoretical subject at the Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel, from 1983 double membership at the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty until his retirement in 1995. In view of the expansion of the Kiel Institute, he declined in 1982 and 1986 calls from a US university. The institute finally comprised more than 70 employees with more than 10 nationalities from four continents. The successful diploma and doctoral students (med. And rer. Nat.) Are counted; More than 20 is the number of those who have qualified as professors at home and abroad today. After his retirement, Müller-Ruchholtz taught and practiced in the classical field of immunology, infection prophylaxis through vaccination, and worked as an expert and consultant for various ministries and specialist organizations. He was involved in the animal experimentation commission, the vaccination working group, as deputy chairman of the ethics commission of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association and as a board member of the Kreitz Foundation for the promotion of cancer research in the two medical faculties in Schleswig-Holstein.
He was married to Dr. med. Ruth born Nail. With her he had three children (Eva, Michael and Christoph) and nine grandchildren.
Honors
- Elected to the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
- Dr. med. hc from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (February 1992)
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Cross of Merit 1st Class (December 2008)
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener Corp lists 1996 46 /383; 17 /883
- ↑ Medical dissertation: About auto-antibodies and their detection possibilities, especially through the Prausnitz-Küstner reaction .
- ↑ Dental dissertation: The parathyroid tumors and their relationship to the organism .
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: Immunological consequences of continued cross-transfusions, with special consideration of the transplant tolerance
- ↑ Karl-Werner Ratschko , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Ärzteblatt 4/2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Ruchholtz, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German emeritus for immunology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mülheim an der Ruhr |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 2019 |
| Place of death | Molfsee |