Oskar Langendorff

Oscar Langendorff ( born 1 February 1853 in Breslau, † May 10, 1908 in Rostock) was a German physician and physiologist.

Scientific career

After studying medicine at the universities of Breslau, Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau Oscar Langendorff in 1875 his doctorate at the Albertus University of Königsberg, where he worked as a research assistant in the following years. He habilitated in 1879 at the physiologist Hermann Ludimar and held from 1884, the position of an associate professor. In 1886 the choice Lange Dorffs a member of the Leopoldina was.

In 1892 Langendorff accepted a position at the University of Rostock, where he worked as a professor and director of the physiological institute until his death in 1908.

Langendorff was known primarily for his experiments on isolated perfused hearts in the eponymous Langendorff apparatus. He also employed, inter alia, to with aspects of respiration as well as the conduction in the sympathetic and peripheral nervous system.

Memberships

  • Leopoldina, Halle
  • Accademia Medico - chirurgica, Perugia
  • L'Association Internationale de l' Institute Marey, Paris
  • Association for scientific medicine, Königsberg

Works

  • Physiological graphics. A guide to the commonly used in physiology Registrirmethoden, F. Deuticke, Leipzig: 1891.
  • Studies on the surviving mammalian heart, Pflügers Arch 61: 291-332, 1895.
  • Studies on the surviving mammalian heart. II On the influence of heat and cold on the heart of warm-blooded animals, Pflügers Arch 66: 355-400, 1897.
  • Studies on the surviving mammalian heart. III. Temporary irregularities of the heart beat and their adjustment, Pflügers Arch 70: 473-486, 1898.
Wrocław Ludimar Hermann Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium Integrated Authority File
624783
de