Nikolaus Friedreich

Written Nicolaus Friedreich, also Nicholas ( born July 31, 1825 Würzburg, † July 6, 1882 in Heidelberg ) was a German pathologist and professor of medicine in Würzburg and Heidelberg.

Life

Friedreich was the third famous physician of his family. His father was the psychiatrist Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796-1862), his grandfather, the pathologist Nicolaus Anton Friedreich (1761-1836), who described the facial paralysis ( " Bell's palsy" ).

Nicholas studied in Würzburg at the Julius- Maximilians- University between 1844-1850 medicine, with a brief interruption of one semester in Heidelberg with Jakob Henle. In 1845 he joined the Corps Rhenaniastraße Würzburg an.Der Councilor Carl Friedrich von Marcus ( 1802-1862 ), Albert of Kölliker, Franz von Rinecker and Virchow were his most important teachers. With Carl Englemann, a fellow student, he was a friend of both wrote in 1848 a work Concerning the skull of the Axolotl.

After receiving his doctorate in 1850, he was with Carl Gegenbaur, until 1853, worked at the medical clinic of the Julius Hospital.

Under the patronage of the physiologist Albert von Kölliker and the pathologist Rudolf Virchow he habilitated in 1853. During the same year he was in Würzburg ao Professor of Pathological Anatomy.

When Rudolf Virchow in 1856 Würzburg left and went to the Charité in Berlin, Friedreich was acting director of the Würzburg pathology until August Förster was appointed in 1858 as the successor of Virchow.

In the same year Friedreich Full Professor at the University of Heidelberg. His students included Adolf Kussmaul, Wilhelm Erb and Friedrich Schultze. In 1863, he described his work About degenerative atrophy of the spinal posterior column ataxia, which was later called Friedreich's ataxia.

Works

  • A new case of leukemia. Virchow's Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine, Berlin, 1857, 12: 37-58
  • The diseases of the nose, larynx, trachea, thyroid and thymus. In Virchow's manual of special pathology and therapy. 1858
  • A contribution to the pathology of trichinosis in humans. Virchow's Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine, Berlin, 1862, 25: 399-413.
  • The diseases of the heart. Virchow's manual of special pathology and therapy. Erlangen, 1854, 5, 1 Abbot, 385-530. 2nd edition, Erlangen, F. Enke, 1867
  • About degenerative atrophy of the spinal posterior columns. Virchow's Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine, Berlin, ( A) 26: 391, 433; 1863
  • About ataxia with special consideration of hereditary forms. Virchow's Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology and clinical medicine, Berlin, 1863
  • Heidelberger barracks for Krigesepidemien during the campaign in 1870 and in 1871. Heidelberg, 1871
  • About progressive muscle atrophy, muscle atrophy about true and false. Berlin, 1873
  • The acute splenic tumor and its relationship to the acute infectious diseases. ( Volkmann's collection of clinical lectures ), Leipzig, 1874
  • Paramyoklonus multiplex. Virchow's Archives of pathological anatomy and physiology, and clinical medicine, Berlin, 1881, 86: 421-430
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