Gustav von Bunge
Gustav von Bunge (born 7 Januarjul / January 19 1844greg in Dorpat, .. † November 5, 1920 in Basel ) was a Baltic German physiologist and professor at the University of Basel.
Life
He was the son of a German - Baltic family of scholars in Dorpat (then Russia, now Tartu, Estonia) born. His father Alexander von Bunge was an explorer and professor of botany at the University of Dorpat. Gustav's uncle Georg Friedrich (1802-1897) was a historian and law professor at Dorpat. Gustav's brother Alexander (1851-1930) was a doctor, explorer and zoologist. Between 1886 and 1889 the German since 1802 University of Dorpat was Russified uncompromising.
After studying chemistry and mathematics at Dorpat Gustav von Bunge received his doctorate in 1874 and his habilitation in physiology. After studying medicine in Strasbourg and Leipzig, he received his doctorate in 1882 in Leipzig in medicine. In 1885 he became associate professor in 1886 until his death in 1920 full professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Basel. His inaugural lecture The alcohol question on 23 November 1886 in which he spoke out against alcohol consumption and alcohol production, caused a sensation and has been translated into sixteen languages . It formed the basis of the scientific temperance movement and the health-based alcohol policy. The 1887 printed lecture The alcohol issue drew Gerhart Hauptmann 1889 with the conception of his drama Before Sunrise zoom and quoted from it in the dramatic text. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina.
His interest was not limited to the natural sciences; History and Social Sciences preoccupied him since the student years. He was a staunch supporter of the American ground reformer Henry George. From his calculations on the cost of alcohol production, he switched from the traditional production factor capital, because it can be let again attributed to the original factors of land and labor.
1887, the first edition of his main work textbook of physiological and pathological chemistry. Bunge is a pioneer in vitamin research. As social hygiene he was antimechanistisch in scientific thinking. He turned against civilization diseases, campaigned for women's studies and became popular for his work on abstinence and dairy research. In 1890 he was made an honorary citizen of Basel.
Bunge remained. He died on November 5, 1920 in Basel. On 8 November 1920, he was buried in the churchyard Wolf in Basel. His grave is maintained until today.
Trivia
Bunge was the author of the assumption spinach would be a particularly high iron content of the muscle building conducive. However, the Bunge 1890 certain value of 35 mg of iron was associated with 100 g spinach powder and was thus 10 times higher than the iron content of fresh spinach.
Writings (selection )
- About the importance of the salt and the behavior of potassium salts in the human organism Mattiesen, 1873 Dorpat ( Digitized edition of the University of Tartu ).
- The potash, caustic soda and chlorine content of the milk, compared to the other foods and whole organism of mammals Mattiesen, Tartu 1874 ( Digitized edition of the University of Tartu).
- Vitalism and mechanism: A lecture. F. C. W. Vogel, Leipzig 1886.
- Textbook of physiological and pathological chemistry. Leipzig 1988; 4th Edition: FCW Vogel, Leipzig 1898 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf ).
- The alcohol question: A lecture. F. C. W. Vogel, Leipzig 1887; last: Alcohol opponent -Verlag, Lausanne 1941 (full text).