Adolf Loewy
Adolf Loewy ( born June 29, 1862 in Berlin, † December 26, 1937 in Davos ) was a German physiologist.
Life
Adolf Loewy was born the son of a Jewish merchant, Leopold Loewy and his wife Rosalie, born in Waldenburg. He studied in Berlin and Vienna medicine and graduated in 1885 in Berlin as a doctor of medicine. In 1886 he held his physiological studies in Vienna. He then worked at Nathan Zuntz at the Agricultural College in Berlin. In 1895 he became a Privatdozent for physiologist at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin after his habilitation. In the same year his habilitation thesis was honored by the Smithsonian Institution with a price. In 1900 he was appointed professor. In addition, he practiced as a doctor.
Loewy employed at this time extensively with height- physiological studies, for which he also performed simulations in the pneumatic cabinet of the Jewish Hospital. As early as 1898 he refuted Angelo Mosso view that altitude sickness will triggered by a lack of carbon dioxide in the blood ( acapnia ). For him, it was clear that only one induced by the rarefied air oxygen deficiency would be the cause in question. In 1901 he ran together with Nathan Zuntz meticulous six-week field study in international research station Capanna Regina Margherita on the Signalkuppe ( 4,554 m) in the Monte Rosa massif.
As 1922 on the initiative of the medical profession in Davos, the Swiss Institute of High Altitude Physiology and tuberculosis research was founded, it was Loewy to the post of Director. Under his leadership, the Institute has developed into an international center of height physiological and climatological research. Numerous guest scientists worked temporarily at Loewy Institute.
Before 1933 at the age of 71 years retired, he gave out his summary work physiology of high altitude climate.
From 1925 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was an honorary member of the Budapest Medical Society, the Swiss Society of Balneology, Medical Society of the Davos Davos and the Natural History Society.
After coming to power of the Nazis his teaching permit in Germany in 1933 revoked.
Writings (selection )
- Of the influence of temperature on the filtration of protein solutions from animal membranes. Dissertation, Berlin 1885
- Studies on respiration and circulation and for changing the pressure of the oxygen content of the air. A. Hirschwald, Berlin 1895 ( habilitation thesis )
- Concerning the relationship of the acapnia to mountain sickness. In: Archives of Physiology, 1898, pp. 409-430
- With Hermann von Schroetter: studies on blood circulation in humans. In: Zschr. exper. Path. 1, 1905, pp. 197-311
- Nathan Zuntz, Franz Müller and Wilhelm Caspari: mountain climate and mountain hikes in their effect on humans. Results of experimental research in the high mountains and the laboratory. Publisher Bong, Berlin 1906
- Nathan Zuntz (ed.): Textbook of physiology. F.C.W. Vogel, Leipzig 1909
- Physiology of high altitude climate. J. Springer, Berlin 1932
- Blood and blood circulation in the high mountains. In: Klinische Wochenschrift 13, 1934, pp. 545-549