- Paul Grützner
Paul Grützner (
April 30 ,1847 -July 29 ,1919 ) was a Germanphysiologist who was a native of Festenberg,Silesia .He studied medicine in
Würzburg ,Berlin andBreslau , where he was a pupil ofRudolf Heidenhain (1834-1897). After graduation he was an assistant at the physiological institute in Breslau. In 1881 he became a professor at theUniversity of Bern , and in 1884 succeededKarl von Vierordt (1818-1884) at the physiological institute at theUniversity of Tübingen .Grützner performed numerous studies involving the
physiology of nerves and muscles, circulatory physiology, glandular andgastric secretion s, et al. In the 1870s withWilhelm Ebstein (1836-1912) he performed important research regarding the physiochemical behavior ofpepsin in the digestive tract. The findings from this research was published in an 1874 treatise called "Ueber Pepsinbildung im Magen", and is included in Pflügers Archiv.Grützner is credited with introducing a
colorimetric method for determining the quantity of pepsin in a solution, and among his numerous written articles was an 1879 physiological study on voice and speech titled "Physiologie der Stimme und Sprache".References
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Gr%25C3%25BCtzner,%2BPaul&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DGr%25C3%25BCtzner%2B1847%2BT%25C3%25BCbingen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Biographical Dictionary of Notable Physicians, translated from German]
* [http://www.biochemj.org/bj/071/0384/0710384.pdf Studies on Gastric Proteolysis]
* [http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/reprint/3/3-4/269.pdf The Journal of Physiology]
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