Wolfgang Trautwein (Physiologist)
Wolfgang Trautwein (born January 8, 1922 in Konstanz ; † April 7, 2011 ) was a German physician and physiologist .
Life
Wolfgang Trautwein studied medicine at the universities in Berlin, Würzburg and Gießen. After serving in the war and imprisonment in France, he finished his studies at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1947 he put his state examination and was in 1948 when Fritz Hildebrandt with a thesis on thymus Henning for Dr. med. PhD.
He was assistant to Hans Schaefer at the WG Kerckhoff Institute, today's Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, and at the Physiological Institutes of the Universities of Giessen and later Heidelberg. In 1954 he qualified as a professor on the electrophysiology of the heart muscle fiber . In 1962 he was appointed director of the Second Physiological Institute and in 1966 he was appointed full professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1969/70 he was dean of the medical faculty.
From 1971 to 1990 he was Professor of Physiology at the University of Saarland in Homburg as the successor to Hermann Passow and Director of the Second Physiological Institute. He was an honorary professor at the University of Konstanz , his hometown.
After World War II, Trautwein was considered a pioneer in research into cardiac muscle cells , their function and regulation. He has received numerous awards and was an honorary member of the German Society for Physiology, the Japanese Society for Physiology, the European Society for Cardiology and the American Cardiac Muscle Society. He is the recipient of the Paul Morawitz Prize of the German Society for Circulatory Research, named after the Leipzig internist . Since 2004 he has been the namesake of the Wolfgang Trautwein Research Award of the German Society for Cardiology.
Among other things, he was a member of the Academia Europaea and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
He has published over 300 scientific papers.
His students included the professors of physiology , pharmacology and biochemistry Adolfo Cavalié , Florian Dreyer , Josef Dudel , Hermann Handwerker , Jürgen Hescheler , Franz Hofmann , Gerrit Isenberg , Wilfrid Jänig , Reinhardt Rüdel , Robert F. Schmidt , Manfred Zimmermann and Frank Coincidence .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Trautwein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Wolfgang Trautwein
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ, issue no.90 of April 16, 2011, page 6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trautwein, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 2011 |