Ludolf von Krehl
(Albrecht ) Ludolf von Krehl, ennoblement 1904 ( born December 26, 1861 in Leipzig, † May 26 1937 in Heidelberg) was a German internist and cardiologist.
Life
Krehl was the son of Leipzig professor of Oriental Ludolf Krehl. He studied from 1881 to 1886 in Leipzig, Jena, Heidelberg and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1886 in Leipzig. During his medical studies in Heidelberg Krehl was a member of the fraternity Franconia. 1886-1892 he was assistant to Ernst Leberecht Wagner and Heinrich Curschmann at the Leipzig Medical Clinic. There he completed his habilitation in 1888 for Internal Medicine. This was followed by appointments to the medical polyclinics in Jena in 1892, Marburg 1899, Greifswald 1900. 1902 he took over the medical clinics in Tubingen, 1904 in Strasbourg and in 1907 in Heidelberg. There he was, 1922, the new clinic relate, was involved in the founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research and took over in 1931 after his retirement, the head of the department of pathology at the Institute. 1903 Krehl was knighted in 1925 Member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Arts and Science and in 1927 an honorary doctorate of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Tübingen. 1926 Krehl was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In the era of National Socialism, he joined the Nazi Teachers Association. 1936 awarded him Adolf Hitler with the eagle shield of the German Reich.
Work
Thinking Krehls is characterized by multiple tests, medical clinic and Arztsein together. The focus of his work is the Pathological physiology, with slightly varied titles appeared in 14 editions since 1893 and from 1932 to 1934. It extends the structural pathology of the organs (Giovanni Battista Morgagni ) and the cells (Rudolf Virchow ) to the pathogenesis and symptom formation of disturbed functions. Krehls main field of the diseases of the heart, showed him that there are performance problems, for which there is no pathological- anatomical substrate ( Diseases of the heart muscle and the nervous heart disease, in:. . Ed. Hermann Nothnagel Vol Special Pathology and Therapy XV / 1, 1901). Like he was watching for indigestion ( dyspepsia ) and the paradigm of hysteria. That to infections, not all people and if so, then ill in different ways, prompted Krehl, the general diseases give their right next to the organ diseases: namely, the getting sick favorable and progression of the disease influential conditions ( constitution, diathesis, disease form and personality, 1929). On one hand, would not and could Krehl the scientific basis of medical research and diagnostics as a prerequisite for rationally justifiable therapy, the experimental- inductive method, do not give up. On the other hand, the medical experience pushed him to an open view of the psychological conditions for becoming ill and being sick. Early as 1902, he praised the work of Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer. In symptoms he recognized expression of the physical and psychic communities and the effects of the unconscious. In addition to the causal entered a teleological thinking. This also brought the individual, the person of the patient, in the foreground. In therapy, the strengthening of the recovery will in the patient -physician relationship is effective. Behind constitution, person and interview of the patient and his doctor is the idea of wholeness. From the effective values in relation characteristics followed Krehl for medical practice, a view of the health and behavior to him, the natural sciences, and humanities perspectives combined ( The Doctor, 1937). The conversation about forms two persons to an existential unity. In this way, especially his employees Viktor von Weizsäcker and Richard Siebeck (1883-1965) are Krehl followed.
He is the namesake of one of the medical university hospitals in Heidelberg. The Southwest German Society for Internal Medicine awards the Ludolph Krehl Award for outstanding dissertations and research papers.
Writings (selection )
- Outline of general clinical pathology, Leipzig 1893
- Ludolf Krehl (eds. ): Handbook of medical experience in the World War 1914-1918. 3 volumes: Internal Medicine, Leipzig 1921
- About the standpoint of internal medicine, In: Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift. 73 (1926 ) pp. 1547-1552
- About the Naturopathy, 1935