Franz von Rinecker

Francis of Rinecker ( born January 3, 1811 in Scheßlitz near Bamberg; † 21 February 1883 in Würzburg ) was a German physician.

Biography

Francis of Rinecker was the son of Bavarian jurist Henry of Rinecker Gallus (1773-1852) and his wife Josephine von Stengel, daughter of the Bavarian secret Council Stephan von Stengel.

He studied after leaving grammar school in 1811 at the ( present ) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich medicine in Munich and Würzburg, 1834, he received his license. In 1838 he was appointed by King Ludwig I of Bavaria appointed professor of pharmacology at the University of Würzburg.

Rinecker specializing in pharmacology and dermatology, tried as head of the Commission profession of medical school, to replace the then dominant in medicine natural philosophy through a scientific basis.

Among his students were Ernst Haeckel and Franz von Leydig; Albert of Kölliker and Virchow, he called to the medical faculty, Emil Kraepelin was his assistant in Würzburg.

Since 1890, the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg awards named after him Rinecker Medal to physicians and scientists with special relationships to Würzburg.

In Munich, Franz-von- Rinecker Street was named after him. It is located in Munich valley churches, between the Schäftlarnstraße and Am Isarkanal where ( named after Hans Rinecker ) also Rinecker Proton Therapy Center ( RPTC ) was built.

His sister Fridericke (1808-1877) married in 1836 the later Bavarian Interior Minister Carl Abel. The bishop of Eichstätt Franz Leopold of Leonrod (1827-1905) was one of his cousins ​​( both mothers were sisters ).