Ludolf von Krehl

Albrecht Ludolf von Krehl (December 26, 1861 - May 26, 1937) was a German internist and physiologist who was a native of Leipzig. He was the son of Orientalist Christoph Krehl (1825-1901)

He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig, and later was an assistant to Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829-1888) and Heinrich Curschmann (1846-1910) at the medical clinic in Leipzig. Afterwards he worked at several university medical clinics, including the University of Strasbourg and the University of Heidelberg (1907-1932). One of his better known assistants at Heidelberg was Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886-1957).

Krehl is remembered for his work involving heart disorders and his research concerning the physiological and pathological aspects of thermoregulation, the circulatory system, et al. He assisted Albert Fraenkel (1864-1938) with the development of Strophanthin-Therapy for treatment of cardiac deficiencies. Krehl admired the psychoanalytic work of Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, and had a keen interest in psychopathological aspects of disease from an individualized, psychosomatic standpoint.

Among his written works was a landmark textbook on pathological physiology that laid a scientific basis for clinical medicine. This textbook was first published in 1893 as "Grundriß der allgemeinen klinischen Pathologie" (Later known as "Pathologische Physiologie"), and eventually ran to fourteen editions. Krehl was a primary force behind the founding of the "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research", which today is known as the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.

Selected writings

* "Grundriß der allgemeinen klinischen Pathologie", (Fundamentals of General Clinical Pathology), later known as "Pathologische Physiologie" (Pathological Physiology); Leipzig (1893)
* "Die Erkrankungen des Herzmuskels", In: Carl Nothnagel's: Experimentelle Pathologie und Therapie, Bd. 15/1, Holder, Wien (1901)
* "Krankheitsform und Persönlichkeit", Thieme, Leipzig (1929)
* "Über die Naturheilkunde", (1935)

References

* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.vahf.de/beruehmtefranken/ludolfvonkrehl/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Ludolf%2Bvon%2BKrehl%2522%2B1861%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Frankonia Heidelberg, Biography translated from German]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2024407 NCBI, Theory and model in psychosomatic medicine]