Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger ( born June 7, 1829 in Hanau, † March 16, 1910 in Bonn ) was a German physiologist.

Life

Tiller began in 1849 a study of politics in Heidelberg and in 1850 turned to medicine, which he studied in Marburg and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1853. In Berlin, he worked as an assistant of Emil Du Bois- Reymond and his habilitation in 1858 for physiology. As early as 1859 he was appointed as professor to the new chair of physiology at the University of Bonn, where he was rector from 1889 to 1890.

Pflueger founded in 1868 the journal " Archives of the whole physiology of humans and animals " (today: Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology ).

In Bonn was also named to the Privy medical officer.

One of his students was Nathan Zuntz, later himself a famous physiologist.

1877 published Pflüger his work with the description of a biological control loop with feedback based on the pupillary reflex. This was followed by numerous other publications in which he preferably dealt with the sensory functions of the spinal cord, respiratory physiology and electrotonus. According to him, this is also called " Pflügersche of contraction ."

In 1878 he moved into the newly built Physiological Institute in Poppelsdorf. Because of his outstanding achievements in the field of function of nerve cells and has been nominated since 1902 several times for the Nobel Prize.

Honors

Since 1909, Eduard Pflüger honorary citizen of the city of Bonn and of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts.

Theses

  • The sensory functions of the spinal cord of vertebrates. In addition to a new teaching on the line laws of reflections. Hirschwald, Berlin 1853. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • Experimental contribution to the theory of the inhibitory nerves. In: Archives of Anatomy, Physiology and scientific medicine. 1859, pp. 13-29
  • About a new reagent for the representation of the axis cylinder. In: Archives of Anatomy, Physiology and scientific medicine. 1859, p 132
  • As to the cause of the Oeffnungstetanus. In: Archives of Anatomy, Physiology and scientific medicine. 1859, pp. 133-148
  • As to the movements of the ovaries. In: Archives of Anatomy, Physiology and scientific medicine. 1859, pp. 30-32
  • Comments on the physiology of the central nervous system. In: Archives for the whole physiology of humans and animals. Volume 15, 1877, pp. 150-152
  • Textbook of psychiatry for physicians and study Rende. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1883
  • Neurasthenia (nerve weakness), its nature, significance and treatment of anatomical and physiological positions for physicians and study Rende. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1885
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