Gustav Ricker
Gustav Wilhelm August Josef Ricker ( born November 2, 1870 in Hadamar (Hessen -Nassau ), † September 23, 1948 in Dresden) was a scientist and physician.
Life
Ricker attended the Gymnasium in Hanau, at which his father was a schoolmaster. From 1889, he studied philosophy and medicine at the universities of the cities of Freiburg (Breisgau ), Munich, Bonn and Berlin. When surgeon Ernst von Bergmann in Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1893 with a thesis on " Comparative studies of muscle atrophy ." Ricker was then working at institutes in Zurich, Halle ( Saale) and Rostock and enjoyed his training for pathologists. In 1897 he qualified as a professor in Rostock at Albert Thierfelder (Topic: "Contributions to the study of tumors of the kidney ").
The social democracy related and Catholic Ricker was probably because of his confessions not succeed Thierfelder. He therefore adopted on June 1, 1906 for the position of head of the pathology of urban hospitals Sudenburg Old Town and the city of Magdeburg. He sat here for the formation of a medical academy. The position as Head of the Pathological Institute Ricker has held until 1933 until he retired prematurely after the seizure of power by the National Socialists. Therefore Ricker then worked as a private tutor in Berlin and Dresden. The Society of Physicians in Vienna in 1937 elected him a corresponding member.
Ricker was diagnosed with a vascular disease which he had contracted in experiments with radioactive mesothorium in Magdeburg and suffered from a neurological disease and diabetes mellitus.
Teaching
Ricker developed the concept of " Relations pathology ", with which he was about to leave the narrow view founded by Rudolf Virchow 's cellular pathology. The cause of pathological processes he saw in a nervous process and not in a cell process. Ricker aimed to free the pathology of the pure medical appropriateness and to see humans as physical- mental unit.
Ricker is true even though he avoided conferences, as one of the leading pathologists of the time.
Honor
The city of Magdeburg named in his honor and located in the vicinity of his workplace road ( Gustav- Ricker - road). Dresden also received a Professor - Ricker Road.
The Gustav - Ricker Hospital Magdeburg were the departments of the hospital Sudenburg on Leipziger Straße. With the formation of a full university, the name was discontinued.
Works
- Draft Relations Pathology, 1905
- Outline of a logic of physiology as a pure science, 1912
- Pathology as Naturwiss. - Relations Pathology - For pathologists, physiologists, physicians and biologists 1924
- Theoretical essays for doctors, 1936