Arthur Biedl

Artur Biedl ( born October 4, 1869 in Easter, Banat, Romania today; † August 26, 1933 in Weissenbach am Attersee, also: Arthur Biedl ) was an Austrian pathologist, physiologist and endocrinologist.

Life

Artur Biedl studied at the University of Vienna, where he became in 1892 a doctorate to the Dr. med. From 1893 he worked at Salomon Stricker as an assistant for General and Experimental Pathology; In 1896 he was habilitated in this subject. 1898-1900 Biedl supplier was forming under Philip Knoll and Richard Paltauf leader at the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, University of Vienna, 1899, he was appointed Associate Appointed professor in 1902 to full professor. His first published book in 1910 inside secretion was reprinted several times in 1912 and was translated into English until after the Second World War, the standard work in specialist endocrinology.

In the wake of Ewald Hering Biedl in 1913 offered the leadership of the Institute for Experimental Pathology at the Karl- Ferdinand University in Prague, which he then presided from 1914 to 1933. De jure, he was also head of the preparatory clinic, de facto, but he left the running of the cardiologist Julius Rihl.

1918/19 and 1928/29, he was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Prague German University; his students included, inter alia, Hans Selye.

Works

• Internal secretion. Your physiological basis and its importance for the pathology. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1910.
• Physiology and pathology of the pituitary gland. Bergmann, Munich / Wiesbaden 1922.