Carl von Voit (* 31 October 1831 in Amberg, "† 31 January 1908 in Munich) was a German physiologist and nourishing scientist.

It studied medicine, Habilitation from 1848 to 1854 in Munich and peppering castle 1857 at the University of Munich, starting from 1860 more extraordinarily and starting from 1863 tidy professor of the physiology and curator of the physiological collection. 1885 he was appointed the Obermedizinalrat.

Carl von Voit is considered as a founder of the modern nourishing teachings. The chemist and physiologist proved that the nitrogen quantity of the urine is a measure for the protein conversion. It could characterize the meaning of individual nutrients for the human nutrition with the help of the Respirationskammer more near and set up the Voit' food measure. Voit was very successful furthermore as teachers, the Munich school tightened world-wide studying. Above all the nourishing science of the USA received here their early coinage. In Germany max of Rubner was the most famous pupil Voits.

The German society for nutrition lends the Carl of Voit medal since 1961 to earned nourishing researchers.

Works

• The laws of the nutrition of the carnivore (Leipzig 1860)
• Over the effect of the common salt, the coffee and the muscle movement on the metabolism (Munich 1860)
• Over the food in public institutes (Munich 1876)
• Investigation of the food in some public institutes (Munich 1877)
• Over the development of the realization (Munich 1879)
• Physiology of the general metabolism and the nutrition (volume 6, 1. Department of Hermanns "“manual of the physiology"”, Leipzig 1881)

• Magazine for biology (as publishers as well as Buhl and Pettenkofer)

Literature

• Edith Heischkel Artelt: Carl von Voit as founders of the modern nourishing teachings, in: Nourish Umschau 10, 1963, P. 232-234 (informatively, however hagiographisch).
• Uwe Spiekermann: Paths into the Lines of development of the nourishing science in 19. and 20. Century, in: Gesa And (Hg.): The future of the nourishing science, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York 2000, P. 23-46.

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